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This book was definitely a very interesting read. I ripped through it in only a few days, which is rare for me.
Dunn's tale of the carnival (Perhaps the same one portrayed in Bradbury's _Something Wicked This Way Comes_?) is engrossing and a subject which can be totally fictionalized in my mind (and I assume most readers) due to lack of firsthand knowledge. The fantasy world that Dunn creates is thoroughly entertaining if not chilling.
The writing is excellent; Dunn's style is highly descriptive, visually, and flows quite well. Aside from a few dull spots, the book has a very quick and witty pace.
This book would have received five stars were it not for the end... Dunn seems to have forgotten that there are three parts to a book, each equally important: Beginning, middle, and end.
The beginning is captivating and shocking. The middle I've already discussed. The end, unfortunately, is totally abrupt and undeveloped. My only guess is that Dunn ran out of steam and just wanted to finish the project as quickly as possible.
Still, this is a great read and I recommend it. Just don't expect complete satisfaction.


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Geek Love A Novel Katherine Dunn 9780375713347 Books Reviews

I read Geek Love because it's one of Karen Russell's favorite novels. She read it when she was 15. If I had read Geek Love when I was fifteen, especially if I were fifteen in the early nineties (instead of late nineties) I might have enjoyed it a lot more.
The story centers around the Binewskis, a family of "freaks" (conjoined twins, boy with flippers, hunchback albino, telekinetic) who runs a traveling carnival. It reminds me of an R-rated Sam & Max Hit the Road. For a book so full of weirdness and magic and blunt honesty (all things I really would have appreciated at fifteen) it didn't hold my interest much at all. And I'm not sure why. But the sheer imagination behind the book compelled me to read the whole thing, if only so I could move on to something else.
Something about the language deterred me, and made the book feel a lot longer than it was, and sometimes I had to go back and re-read paragraphs just to figure out what was going on. Also, the ending fell flat for me.
I can see how the book was influential in shaping the craft of one of my favorite authors, but it didn't have the same affect on me, in my grizzled old age.
I don't give this book 5 stars because its deserves 5 stars, I gives this book 5 stars because it is the most strange, most unusual, most impossible book I have ever read. It took one wildly creative mind to come up with the ideas that put this book together. And I enjoyed every crazy minute of it. It took my mind on a circus rollercoaster of a ride of a lifetime I'm inclined to never forget. Its one of those books that startle the mind into the impossible and make it possible and wakes up your minds and says hey, can you do that? Is that possible? And keeps you reading to find out if theres a trick or neat little fancy idea behind whats going on. And the book keeps the mind working. All thru to the end and even past that. It makes you think and wonder and then you find joy here and there. You find yourself laughing at this and that. Shocked or startled by something that is so awesome you have to smile, maybe chuckle, maybe put the book down and giggle a while. These moments exist. As do the sad ones. Where your heart melts and you want to cry. You hurt for a character and just want to cuddle them and hold them and cry with them. Its just that kind of book.
Oh, this book. I started it the day that I found out the author had died -- I'd kept meaning to get to it, and that seemed as good a time as any.

I don't know what I expected, but it... wasn't this. Geek Love is about a family of "circus freaks" -- the Binewski clan, where each child was borne of love and a new cocktail of drugs an albino hunchback little person (and our narrator); conjoined twins; a boy with flippers instead of hands or feet; and one normal-looking child who was almost abandoned. The plot jumps between the past and the present; the reader gleans a portrait of a family brought together with fierce love and loyalty and torn apart by jealousy and fear.

Geek Love isn't a perfect book (I was disappointed with the subplot involving Miss Lick; it seemed underdeveloped), and it's not one that I feel like I can recommend lightly, nor to most readers, but it does tell an amazing story that put me through an emotional wringer, leaving my heart thumping or with tears in my eyes, and every emotion in between. It's about the meaning of family, love, and (blind) devotion, and it's unlike any other family saga I've read.

I recommend it to anyone who has read this review and remains intrigued. It's not an easy book, or a light book, or a book of happy endings, but it is amazing, and worth the effort.

Started May 13, 2016
Finished May 21, 2016

Rating 9/10
This book was definitely a very interesting read. I ripped through it in only a few days, which is rare for me.
Dunn's tale of the carnival (Perhaps the same one portrayed in Bradbury's _Something Wicked This Way Comes_?) is engrossing and a subject which can be totally fictionalized in my mind (and I assume most readers) due to lack of firsthand knowledge. The fantasy world that Dunn creates is thoroughly entertaining if not chilling.
The writing is excellent; Dunn's style is highly descriptive, visually, and flows quite well. Aside from a few dull spots, the book has a very quick and witty pace.
This book would have received five stars were it not for the end... Dunn seems to have forgotten that there are three parts to a book, each equally important Beginning, middle, and end.
The beginning is captivating and shocking. The middle I've already discussed. The end, unfortunately, is totally abrupt and undeveloped. My only guess is that Dunn ran out of steam and just wanted to finish the project as quickly as possible.
Still, this is a great read and I recommend it. Just don't expect complete satisfaction.