Friday, April 25, 2008
Demonology

Rick Moody's book "Demonology" is a collection of thirteen stories. Each story is written in a different manner both in format and in perspective. And I feel each story "begins" and then fades off without ever explaining the start or ending of what is happening. The entire collection comes off as a sort of ramble.

One story in particular, "Boys" was probably one of the most annoying stories I have ever read. The actual word "boys" must have been written in the story one hundred times.

I also didn't like the story "Ineluctable Modality of the Vaginal." It was just wrong in so many ways. Not offensive so much as just disgusting to me. There are some things I just don't want to think about in a "vaginal" related manner and this story was all about comparisons if you know what I mean. Plus the girl in the story literally used her "va va voom" as a weapon or basis of an argument with her boyfriend. It was just ridiculous and unbelievable.

While I appreciate the thought put into the book, I just struggled with the concepts. It took me a long time to get through it and there were pages I had to read through more than once to figure them out.

One thing I will say positively is of the "Boxed Set" story. Each page had two columns. One of which held a chronological history of the person's life and in the second column was a mixed song list of things that fit the period of time in his life. The correlation between each column and the notes written in regards to the songs were really interesting to me.

With that said I end my thoughts on Demonology and move forward without looking back.

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