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The Orange Eats Creeps
Written by Grace Krilanovich
Narrated by Angela Goethals
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
A MacDowell Colony fellow and a finalist for the Starcherone Prize, Grace Krilanovich was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize. During the 1990s in the Pacific Northwest, a hobo vampire gang on drugs causes horrific chaos everywhere they go-from trashing supermarket breakrooms to crashing senior center pancake breakfasts. Amidst the danger one girl, who benefits (and suffers) from drug-induced ESP, searches desperately for her foster sister. "Refreshingly piquant and playful."-Publishers Weekly
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Reviews for The Orange Eats Creeps
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This book had some wonderfully hallucinatory prose, but ultimately it felt quite repetititive to me. I live in the Pacific Northwest, and I work in an independent bookstore, so I know that vampires are all the rage out here in this dark and damp environment. But this tale just didn't have enough of a storyline for me. I felt like I was reading disjointed excerpts from Grace Krilanovich's teenage diary from her years in a foster home. Maybe I needed a few doses of cough syrup to really enjoy this story, but since I was fairly clear of mind when I absorbed it, I would have to honestly say The Orange Eats Creeps failed to impress me.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Challenging, a long slow walk through the darkest parts of our anti-heroine's mind. By turns laugh out loud funny, horrifying and mind numbing. It took me weeks to finish, but I never felt like giving up. I love Burroughs and some of this is reminiscent of the "routines" in his work. I can't compare to Kathy Acker because I found her books truly impenetrable, at least "Pussy, King of the Pirates". Steve Erickson raves about it, and if you like his work you'll probably find something to interest you in "Orange".
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wow. Did you know that Kathy Acker and William Burroughs had a love-child? Her name is Grace Krilanovich and this is her debut. The Orange Eats Creeps reads like an extended tone poem written written by someone on an LSD trip who has just woken up from a fever dream. It shares quite a bit of DNA with Acker's surreal Don Quixote - weirdly disjointed, albeit evocative, prose written from constantly shifting perspectives and describing the palpable horrors of a vagabond, junkie teenaged girl roaming the streets of the Pacific Northwest in search of her missing (dead?) step-sister (lover?). The rhythmic, repetitive writing is artfully composed and designed to conjure a very specific mood... Dreadful, grey and disturbing. There are [oblique] references to the Donner Party, shock rocker GG Allin (who often punctuated his performances by flinging his own feces into the audience) and the Green River serial killer. Although, truth be told, I might have missed these without having read the overleaf first. Which is partly why I've opted to only give the book three stars. While I appreciate a challenging novel, I'll admit that my mind tended to wander during the longer, more metaphysical, passages and I found that the actual storyline tends to get buried, making the action (such as it is) a bit hard to follow. Oh, and if your idea of a book about teenage vampires in the Pacific Northwest is the Twilight series, stay away from this one. Frankly, I was rather surprised to learn that this won a Speculative Fiction literary award, since I saw the vampire/fantasy element as being strictly metaphorical. This reminded me more of Lee Williams underappreciated novel, After Nirvana (if Williams had been on acid when he wrote it) or a surrealistic version of the gripping 1984 documentary film about Seattle's teenaged runaways, "Streetwise" or even Harmony Korine's creepy little indie film "Kids." My verdict? Read if you're looking to be shocked and challenged. Avoid if you're seeking emotional engagement or facile entertainment.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Love it. Passages in here make me wonder if the author has visited my nightmares--or have I simply seen what she's seen, out train and car windows, down at the 7-11 corner, or we've dreamt similar dreams of what is plainly real and self evident: the limitless orange light of American sprawl at night; a neon hell worth visiting for an afternoon; a chaos of materialism and hollow dreams that gather like silt in the creek behind the truck stop; teenage vampires (they are all vampires, don't you know?) sucking a culture with no blood and loving it. This is a novel worthy of Alice In Wonderland, On the Road, anything Burroughs has written, and the very best of B horror movies. Amazing this is her first... I understood what was going on about half the time. Makes me want to read it again. Fuck yeah.