Crabs’ Moon by Guy N. Smith
My rating: 5/5 cats
ahhhh—more crabs!! this is more of the same, but somehow even funnier on the second go-round.
it is racist and sexist and homophobic and full of unbelievably sex-starved people making incredibly bad decisions. horrible characters abound: bad parents, bad spouses/future spouses, bad lovers, bad soldiers, etc but these people aren’t campy-bad in their faults—this doesn’t read like parody—this is the genuine article, an artifact of the hilarious time when men were men, and it was totally acceptable to refer to every single female character as a bitch, a cow, a fool, silly, or stupid. every woman in the book gets this treatment. even by people supposedly in love. it is glorious. and the crabs find all of them delicious.
i don’t know what to say about this, really: giant donkey-sized crabs attack a seaside resort, eat bathers, resist military forces, click their giant pincers—again, there are suitcases of cash and coitus interrupted by dismemberment (and there is a literal dismemberment in this one—i guess crabs have favorite foods, too…) and they are seemingly unstoppable, until they aren’t. sort of.
i have no idea what this ending is all about—it seems very abrupt and tacked-on. is this a sign of bad writing?? no way! i am just not intelligent enough to understand it! silly bitch!
whatever – the best review of this can be found here, and after you read that, what more is there to be said?
this guy is in for a real surprise…
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