Zombie Strippers and Other Strange Words edition by Victor Lorthos Literature Fiction eBooks
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A collection of terribly twisted poems and short stories from the last five years of the author's late night writings, the Zombie Strippers may not be the strangest creatures within. Heroes and villains, tall tales and outright lies, bizarre humor, mad ideas, all can be found in these pages. Some are darkly amusing, some may be offensive to the sensitive, and some are just plain weird. The words are waiting for you, pour a drink and read a few.
Zombie Strippers and Other Strange Words edition by Victor Lorthos Literature Fiction eBooks
Zombie Strippers is a bowl of adult Halloween candy. In the mix you'll find poetry, short stories and peculiar, short musings on a wide range of subjects, though drinking and women are frequent favorites and profanity is scattered throughout.Rummaging around in the candy bowl, the poetry is more often than not free verse and frequently funny. I laughed out loud at "Monkeypants" and was amused by the allegorical zoo in "The Cacophony of Anxiety." Other poems, such as "Nap With a Redhead," "Lessons Learned the Hard Way" and "They Know Me Here" are full of wistful regret or longing without plunging into sticky sentimentality. Some of the poems are tossed off crumbs, little pieces that may or may not resonate with the reader.
The short stories are often funny, sometimes horrific, pieces of robot noir, tales of cosmic beings brought to earth, urban fables and heavy metal scifi. Also, llamas. Llamas with agendas. The majority of the stories are bite-sized, which makes Zombie Strippers an excellent book for picking up and putting back down, like taking a piece of candy from the bowl each time you pass by. The "epic" piece is a fantasy steampunk story called "Of Heroes and Airships" which, like most of the stories, hints at a larger fictional world that seems complete and we are only getting a fragment of it. I particularly enjoyed "Angels in Gas Stations" and "Death Rides the Palomino." There's a lot of taking archetypes from pop culture and myth and looking at them through a darker, dirtier lens. Sort of a Joe R. Lansdale, David Schow vibe.
The rest of the book is made up of pieces that are essays, musings, and things that don't really qualify as either stories or poetry so much - sort of like that Halloween specific candy, like gummy eyeballs or Zombie Sour Patch Kids. They're clever, sometimes not terribly sensible and if they don't get a laugh or make you pause and think, it's easy to move on and unwrap the next one.
This is not a book for those with more delicate tastes. It's dark, gritty, profane, often obscene and/or violent. Lorthos is not above going for the gross out for a cheap laugh either. But if you find yourself intrigued by the above descriptions at all, it's well worth your time to rummage around this candy bowl. Odds are you will find something with a flavor you enjoy and hope to get more of.
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Zombie Strippers and Other Strange Words edition by Victor Lorthos Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Having known this author since college and after reading a few of his stories over the years, I was looking forward to the release of this book. I was not at all disappointed. After reading this book and loving it, I lent it to my children (grown, since it wouldn't be appropriate for youngsters) and they all loved it as much as I did! We can't wait for his next book.
Upon reading Zombie Strippers and Other Strange Words, my eyes began to tear up. Not because of sloppy sadness or nostalgia, but from blood. That's right, I was shedding tears of blood. The insane ramblings of this modern day Joycean madman had reached in through my optic nerve and tweaked something hard. The poems, flash fiction and gut-wrenching craziness from the author has the power to break a man. Or remake him. Mr. Lorthos has a style that smacks of Hunter S. Thompson's drug-induced rantings, William S. Burroughs' drug-induced paranoia and Jack Kerouac's drug-induced grandeur, which is all the more amazing, considering this guy doesn't touch anything harder than a good whiskey. I highly recommend these writings for anyone who has become bogged down in humdrum reality and needs a little boost in the gritty fun department. Just be sure to bring a red hankie to sop up all of those messy brain bleeds.
This was a twisted adventurous trip down the rabbit-hole that is the mind of the author. I bought it more for the short stories, but ended up enjoying the poetry just as much.
If you love stories that are dark, rich and compelling, then this is for you. Brilliant varieties in subject matter and tone. This is the author I've been known to refer to as "Memphis, Tennessee's answer to Hunter S. Thompson." And yes, he IS a friend of mine.
I'm reading this book for the first time. This amazing author is my brother, so you think I'd have jumped on it. Especially since I was 9 when he was born and I watched his talent for writing begin at an early age and knew even then that he had a great talent for putting words together into sentences, then into stories that were so amazing that he blew me away by the time he was 8 or 9. So, I've pretty much always known he had this talent. As we got older, his writings became darker, but never failed to entertain. His sense of humor, both in writing and when talking, will keep your sides hurting from laughter, from reading or having a beer or at a family function. He's so funny, especially for someone who is so dark in his thoughts.
He has turned our tragic childhood into humor, and by God, that wasn't easy to do. I've been reading his stuff for years. Stuff he didn't share with the world, something that his three older sisters don't understand, because not only do we think he's wasting his time paying bills by working menial jobs, and by menial, I mean menial for HIM. He has an incredibly high IQ and WE believe from the depths of our soul that he could easily make a more lucrative living by publishing his writings, but it would be more in keeping with his IQ and God given talent to WRITE. Anyone can write, but he also has the gift of GETTING AND KEEPING people's attention.He easily pulls the reader in and seamlessly keeps them turning pages. The true gift of a real writer.
So, although he finally did have some stuff published on , I haven't read it before because I didn't have a and thought without one, I was doomed to be in the dark. Then today I discovered the free reader on and now I'm INTO this book.. Although as a general rule I don't really get into poetry, his has held me spell bound. It's raw, and deep with his trademark dark sense humor, something I've always appreciated, As I mentioned, he's got a killer sense of humor anyway, but it is his dark humor, I believe, to which people truly relate.
On occasions, generally as a pleasant surprise, he'll just toss in someone crazy and plain, old laugh out loud funny. I haven't read anything both dark AND funny in SUCH a long time, And like my whole family, we read a LOT. Born into a home overflowing with chaos, violence and weirdness . . . it was also overflowing with books., The four of of us kids escaped into the books at very young ages.
This book, I dub a A Must Read, I am at the stage where I'm reading practically non-stop and yet dread coming to the end. He has more publications here on that I intend to find and JUMP INTO immediately upon the completion of this one. I have no doubt he'll win the short story award he's nominated for, which will be presented at a banquet on March 22. He deserves it. My wish for him is that winning this award (along with other's he's won) will get him the attention from an agent or publishing company that can give him the one little bump up he needs to become known world wide.
Way to go, bro! I can't wait to read the next one. Now that I have them on. Thanks for opening that door for me!
Zombie Strippers is a bowl of adult Halloween candy. In the mix you'll find poetry, short stories and peculiar, short musings on a wide range of subjects, though drinking and women are frequent favorites and profanity is scattered throughout.
Rummaging around in the candy bowl, the poetry is more often than not free verse and frequently funny. I laughed out loud at "Monkeypants" and was amused by the allegorical zoo in "The Cacophony of Anxiety." Other poems, such as "Nap With a Redhead," "Lessons Learned the Hard Way" and "They Know Me Here" are full of wistful regret or longing without plunging into sticky sentimentality. Some of the poems are tossed off crumbs, little pieces that may or may not resonate with the reader.
The short stories are often funny, sometimes horrific, pieces of robot noir, tales of cosmic beings brought to earth, urban fables and heavy metal scifi. Also, llamas. Llamas with agendas. The majority of the stories are bite-sized, which makes Zombie Strippers an excellent book for picking up and putting back down, like taking a piece of candy from the bowl each time you pass by. The "epic" piece is a fantasy steampunk story called "Of Heroes and Airships" which, like most of the stories, hints at a larger fictional world that seems complete and we are only getting a fragment of it. I particularly enjoyed "Angels in Gas Stations" and "Death Rides the Palomino." There's a lot of taking archetypes from pop culture and myth and looking at them through a darker, dirtier lens. Sort of a Joe R. Lansdale, David Schow vibe.
The rest of the book is made up of pieces that are essays, musings, and things that don't really qualify as either stories or poetry so much - sort of like that Halloween specific candy, like gummy eyeballs or Zombie Sour Patch Kids. They're clever, sometimes not terribly sensible and if they don't get a laugh or make you pause and think, it's easy to move on and unwrap the next one.
This is not a book for those with more delicate tastes. It's dark, gritty, profane, often obscene and/or violent. Lorthos is not above going for the gross out for a cheap laugh either. But if you find yourself intrigued by the above descriptions at all, it's well worth your time to rummage around this candy bowl. Odds are you will find something with a flavor you enjoy and hope to get more of.
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