The Baby Jesus Butt Plug (Paperback)

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Step into a dark and absurd where human beings are slaves to corporations, people are photocopied instead of born, and the baby jesus is a very popular anal probe.

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"Reading Carlton Mellick III's BABY JESUS BUTT PLUG is like hopping into an LSD-filled time machine with David Cronenberg, William Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, and George Romero at the controls. This tale of office drones and disposable clones is a splatterpunk odyssey, a cautionary tale of corporate omnipotence, and a possible blueprint of the future of the nuclear family. Touching, poignant, horrorific, nightmarish, and beautiful all at the same time, BABY JESUS BUTT PLUG is the work of an uncompromising visionary who lances the boil of his seething imagination with the tip of his pen . . ." -- TRENT HAAGA, star of Terror Firmer, Troma's Edge TV, and co-writer of Citizen Toxie

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Product Details

• Paperback: 104 pages
• Publisher: Eraserhead Press (February 23, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0972959823
• ISBN-13: 978-0972959827
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #442,640 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly powerful, November 7, 2005

By	tonofsam "fatguy" - See all my reviews

This book works on so many levels, you just have to check it out. Although not my favorite Mellick book, I read it first and believe it is the best place to start with this author. First off, it's hilarious in the sickest possible way. The basic plot is about a couple who buys a clone of the baby jesus to use for anal sex. If that offends you then go read the Davinci Code instead. But it's not all just sick humor. It's also an examination of the zombie-like lifestyle of mundane america, set in a creepy dream-like suburb of the near future. If you think it's absurd and disturbing that our culture encourages us to enslave (aka employ) ourselves to tedious inhuman office jobs and have kids just to give purpose to our otherwise empty lives, then you should check out this book. It's funny and profound and geniunely unique. Just like all the other books by CM3.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars as good as it sounds, August 21, 2005

By	R. Duffy "literature junkie" (Columbus, OH) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This relatively short and oh so sweet story by Carlton Mellick is much more than just shock-rock in literary form, as many people may think from the title alone. It is set up almost as a children's story, with large print and lots of interesting illustrations. It's a story about the future of society and the structure and interaction of family, full of heaping helpings of taboo smashing sex, violence, and humor. Between litters of John Lennon clones, zombies, and childish CEO's that happen to be hundreds of years old, there's something for everyone. It's an easy read, but in the very best way. The fairly simple illustrations complement the story nicely, and you'll find that after you've finished the story the first time you'll have an urge to begin it again almost immediately. So pick this up, it's more than worth the price, and I promise you will be very pleased.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Vertigo Conducive, October 12, 2004

By	POOKY D (My Own Cerebellum) - See all my reviews

You know that feeling you get when you walk to the edge of a skyscraper window 100 stories up and put your forehead against the glass (and just for a second you feel like the glass might give and you'll go toppling head over heels to the pavement) and your belly starts to swirl and rise towards your throat and you get light headed?

That's the feeling of this book, from page one. There's some nasty business, some big laughs, and an overall sensation of things being wrong in the best way. But what you might not expect (amidst the melting clones, abstract sex, and zombie carnage) is the strange poignancy of the final pages that make this more than a surreal jerk-around.

This is a headsquisher of a book.