Review: Eraserhead Trapped in a Sutter Cane Novel
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 9, 2014
I struggle here, trying to review this book. The Horror Show is a collection of poetry, and poetry is always a challenge to review. It's more difficult than prose. With prose, everything is laid out for you. But poetry, it's not exactly that simple. Sure, in prose, a lot is up for interpretation - depending on what kind of story you're reading - but with poetry, every single word choice is up for debate.Everything can be interpreted differently, depending who the reader is and what kind of mood the reader is in.I will say this, though. I read this book very quickly. it sucked me in and did not let me go. This is not just a random collection of poems. This is something special; something surreal.You must read these poems in order, in one sitting. Do not get up to use the restroom until you've finished. Do not do anything but read the poems. Then read them out of order. Read them backwards.Let Bilof's madness consume you whole. Because that's what The Horror Show is --it's utter madness. It's a child conceived by the nasty love making of John Carpenter and David Lynch. This is Eraserhead trapped in a Sutter Cane novel.I don't care if you're a fan of poetry or not. Pick this one up.