The Morbidly Obese Ninja [Paperback]

Carlton Mellick III (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 14, 2011

These days, if you want to run a successful company . . . you're going to need a lot of ninjas.

Neo Tokyo, California is a city built so high that none of its residents have ever seen the ground. It is a place where citizens cosmetically alter their bodies to look like Japanese anime characters. It is a place where ninja battles determine the fate of corporate business ventures. It is the home of Basu, a 700 pound killing machine who uses his grotesque excess weight as a deadly weapon. In this city, there is no ninja more deadly than Basu. He's well-trained, well-armed, and well-fed. And if you work for one of his competitors, he's coming to kill you.

The Morbidly Obese Ninja is like anime in written form. Dark, funny, violent, and subtly disturbing. From the award-winning author of Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland, The Haunted Vagina, and Satan Burger.

Editorial Reviews

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Praise for Carlton Mellick III

"Easily the craziest, weirdest, strangest, funniest, most obscene writer in America."
- GOTHIC MAGAZINE

"Carlton Mellick III has the craziest book titles... and the kinkiest fans!"
- CHRISTOPHER MOORE, author of The Stupidest Angel

"If you haven't read Mellick you're not nearly perverse enough for the twenty first century."
- JACK KETCHUM, author of The Woman and The Girl Next Door

"Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale."
- CORY DOCTOROW, author of Little Brother

"Bizarre, twisted, and emotionally raw--Carlton Mellick's fiction is the literary equivalent of putting your brain in a blender."
- BRIAN KEENE, author of The Rising and Dead Sea

"Carlton Mellick III exemplifies the intelligence and wit that lurks between its lurid covers. In a genre where crude titles are an art in themselves, Mellick is a true artist."
- THE GUARDIAN

"Just as Pop had Andy Warhol and Dada Tristan Tzara, the Bizarro movement has its very own P. T. Barnum-type practitioner. He's the mutton-chopped author of such books as Electric Jesus Corpse and The Menstruating Mall, the illustrator, editor, and instructor of all things Bizarro, and his name is Carlton Mellick III."
- DETAILS MAGAZINE

Product Details

• Paperback: 92 pages
• Publisher: Eraserhead Press (April 14, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1936383578
• ISBN-13: 978-1936383573
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.2 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,017,357 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Like a real world Kilgore Trout, cult author CARLTON MELLICK III has been pumping out some of the weirdest, trashiest, most imaginative books that you'll never want to admit you secretly love.

His books are released on a quarterly basis (every January, April, July, and October).

Best known as one of the leading authors of the bizarro fiction movement in literature, he is also one of the most prolific authors of his generation with over 40 books in print since 2001. He won the Wonderland Book Award for his novel "Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland" and has had short stories make it into The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade.

Although many of his earliest works are on the surreal and experimental side, his current style is to take the most ridiculous concepts imaginable and approach them with complete sincerity, as if they are not intended to be ridiculous at all. Always full of tongue-in-cheek humor, social satire, and told in a simplistic straightforward prose style similar to that of children's literature or early pulp fiction, Carlton Mellick III's work is one of a kind, to say the least.

He lives in Portland, OR, the bizarro mecca.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Basu Grunted June 25, 2011

By Dustin Reade

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This book is awesome. Plain and simple. The story is full of intense action, with a definite anime feel (which gets skewered in a few places, to hilarious effect),and as usual, Mellick comes up with some oddly plausible explanations for why the people and the world they live in are the way they are.
Surprisingly clean and heartfelt for a book about Ninjas, but not so much you would feel comfortable reading it in church, and an ending that put a smile on my face that weighed seven-hundred pounds.
When I told Basu I liked this book, he grunted

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars This One Gets Five Grunts July 27, 2011

By R. Moschgat Jr.

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Yet another great read by CMIII.
Baku is a grunting, iKitana carrying, 45,000 calorie a day eating, 700 pound ninja who finds himself tasked with recovering a piggy bank from his arch nemesis, Crow. This isn't your normal piggy bank. It's actually a metal boy, named Oki. Upon recovering, Oki, Baku visits Chiya, a girl who has transformed herself into an Anime character.
What follows is a bloody thrill ride packed with all the things you would expect from Mr. Mellick as Baku tries to complete his task.
My only complaint is that in the introduction Carlton states that he will never revisit "The Morbidly Obese Ninja". I really wish he would as I would love to see what the future holds for Baku.
Pick this one up. You won't be disappointed!

5.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good even with the Oddness of C M III May 14, 2013

By The Big G. Spot

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I am a pretty big guy and reading about a Fat Ninja with Awesome Skills was kind of fun I must say it is a pretty good story that will even touch your heart by the end as long as your not fighting against this Obese Ninja because if you were your heart might just be on the end of his blade.