Blood Electric [Paperback]

Kenji Siratori (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 15, 2002

A fatal collusion of drag embryos and DNA angels in Cadaver City ignites the circuitry of the ADAM Doll... dogs of zero waging gene war in Placenta World, chaos unleashed by the digital vampires of Sato Corporation, nano-junk virus pandemic.

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Blood Electric is a devastating loop of language from the Tokyo avant-garde, with stylistic experimentation akin to Artaud or Burroughs, but embracing the image mayhem of the internet / multimedia / digital age. Kenji Siratori comes from within the history of radical literature, but his youth, cultural context, and understanding of the futurity of digital technologies positions him as the herald of a new literary dawn.

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Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Kenji Siratori is a young Japanese author who classes himself as a 'hypermodern writer working in a digital environment'. Born in 1975, he currently lives in Sapporo, Japan. This is his first major book publication.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Creation Books (May 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1840680601
• ISBN-13: 978-1840680607
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #607,290 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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38 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars hype hype and hype, July 21, 2004

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opinion8 "crapdetector" (san francisco, ca United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood Electric (Paperback)

i got 26 pages into this and realized i could basically page through this randomly and get the same effect - i got this because it got comparisons to burroughs and even finnegan's wake
not
a
chance
the over over over repetition combined with the lack of anything remotely cohesive gets tedious real fast
dog boyroid blood flesh slash slash equals colon i commit suicide she commits suicide i rape blah blah blah
boooooring
i wanted to have my mind blown
i can make my own cut ups
i know how to use excel and the word replace function
this amused me for about a page and a half
i spent the last 20+ pages reading only to justify my financial investment
cutting edge? get over it - pretense = pretense
buy yourself a hit of blotter and save 5 bucks

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars ABSOLUTELY AWFUL, January 10, 2006

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Made in DNA (Japan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood Electric (Paperback)

This book is AWFUL! I do NOT recommend it. [...]
This book is unequivocally unintelligible. I am not trying to say the writer's ability to convey a story is terrible, what I am trying to say, it is not in any comprehensible form that is able to keep the reader's attention. This book is written (purposely) in irregular English that has been

1) translated from the original Japanese by a computer (as a Japanese to English translator, I know when a document has been translated by a machine, and this book clearly has been), and

2) written with a mixture of the English language and HMTL markup language.

These elements are confusing, making it extremely hard to follow any kind of story that may be hidden in the text.

Yes, this may sound like an extremely interesting premise. I thought so too. But I cannot warn readers enough: YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ENJOY THIS BOOK! AT THE VERY MOST YOU WILL STRUGGLE TO EVEN COMPREHEND THE MOST SIMPLEST OF MEANINGS!

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars obviously it's not your average novel..., May 14, 2004

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Corpus Mysticum - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood Electric (Paperback)

My hope is that interested readers will get past the dismissive, first review. Obviously, if you want a more traditional narrative-based novel, then Siratori's work and others like it are not for you. Other like-minded work include Mellik's Satanburger, Thacker's Hard_Code anthology, any of the Black Ice books, Noon's Cobralingus, etc. As a 'reader' you should be unsure whether you're reading meaningful prose or just data, and indeed wondering what the difference is between them. Plus, Siratori's own context adds the layer of Japanese high-tech with the cultural stereotype of broken English. The great thing about books like this is that you're not sure how to even begin reading them. I love that. A book that forces you to decide how to read it.