8: NUTCRANKR - 'A Defense of Spencer Grunhauer'

[@ThePrudentialist]

Giving this a listen, loved NutCrankr

[@tookysmag]

Senpai noticed! Gabe heel turn really hits at the 20 minute mark.

[@ThePrudentialist]

@@tookysmag That part was par excellence

[@Vitalyo7]

Really enjoyed your review/discussion of the book. Subscribed.

[@tookysmag]

Heck yea, thank you for the kind words and sticking around!

[@cyberninjazero5659]

23:00 "Flat Ass... like a classic greek statue" I know you boys aren't talking shit on the Callipygan Venus

[@tookysmag]

The Gabe-lore around statues runs deep (see Last Free Man review), but I agree that ass has some gas in it

[@cyberninjazero5659]

​@@tookysmagI just saw that video. Historically they had to stop people from kissing the Ass on the Venus. So Gave truly has embraced tradition

[@tookysmag]

@@cyberninjazero5659 True, he's a stone cold Zarathustrian with a taste for cold marble asses - a step ahead of the rest of us

[@pltnmcowboy]

Perhaps the best way to introduce this novel -- which on my third reading of it astounds me even more than the first -- is to tell of my first encounter with it. While I was teaching at Loyola in 1976 I began to get telephone calls from a lady unknown from me. What she proposed was preposterous. It was not that she had written a couple of chapters of a novel and wanted to get into my class. It was that her son, who was dead, had written an entire novel during the early sixties, a big novel, and she wanted me to read it. Why would I want to do that? I asked her. Because it is a great novel, she said. Over the years I have become very good at getting out of things I don't want to do. And if ever there was something I didn't want to do, this was surely it: to deal with the mother of a dead novelist and, worst of all, to have to read a manuscript that she said was great, and that, as it turned out, was a badly smeared, scarcely readable carbon. But the lady was persistent, and it somehow came to pass that she stood in my office handing me the hefty manuscript. There was no getting out of it; only one hope remained -- that I could read a few pages and that they would be bad enough for me, in good conscience, to read no farther. Usually I can do just that. Indeed the first paragraph often suffices. My only fear was that this one might not be bad enough, or might be just good enough, so that I would have to keep reading. In this case I read on. And on. First with the sinking feeling that it was not bad enough to quit, then with a prickle of interest, then a growing excitement, and finally an incredulity: surely it was not possible that it was so good. I shall resist the temptation to say what first made me gape, grin, laugh out loud, shake my head in wonderment. Better let the reader make the discovery on his own.

[@tookysmag]

And that author's name? John David Card.

[@tookysmag]

Pick up NUTCRANKR: amzn.to/3PNtSzQ Author's Twitter: twitter.com/baltic_dan Up next is Incel by ARX-HAN (www.amazon.com/INCEL-Novel-ARX-Han-ebook/dp/B0CJQMPDRK), Unreal Tales 2, and Passage Prize REWILDING.