Slaughtermatic [Import] [Hardcover]

Steve Aylett (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Phoenix Great Britain; 1st UK ed. edition (1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861591225
• ISBN-13: 978-1861591227
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,647,435 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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37 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Aylett saved me, April 26, 2001

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A. O'Sullivan "Angie" (CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Slaughtermatic (Paperback)

I hadn't read a novel in at least 5 years. I was browsing in a book store in San Francisco with some friends when I happened across Slaughtermatic. Before I returned to the streets I had read the entire thing- cover to cover. "How could someone write in such a fashion?" I thought to myself, "How could someone simultaneously fill me with joy, sorrow, fear, hope, laughter, tears, the urge to urinate, the need to become an elevator mechanic, the will to abandon my current belief system, the know-how to intelligently use the word 'and' in 5 or more idiomatically correct sentences, the love of bread, the loathing of hate, the dislike of bags, altruism, veneration, magnanimousness, the ability to occlude, hunger, thirst, lethargy, pain, free high quality hair cuts, bombastic speech patterns, the knowledge of my own name, the realization that I am not dead and don't want to be, exhaustion, dehydration, deadliness and skill?" I still haven't found the answer. It's been about a year since that fateful trip to the bookstore and I'm not the same. I see color now. Before I read Slaughtermatic I was confined to a wheelchair, now I walk. I recommend this book to any and all who are willing to undertake an adventure, to challenge their beliefs and to exhibit the courage to change themselves, no matter where they are in life. This donkey of a review is over.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Takes off where William S. Burroughs left off..., August 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Slaughtermatic (Paperback)

Old Bill Lee would be proud o' Mister Aylett. This book comes ripping at you hard and fast. Like Noon's Vurt? This thing makes Vurt seem like slow days in a Yurt. The characters are pasty and cardboard because the action is so angry and fast. No time to get to know anyone or need because they'll probably lose a leg or a head in the next scene. An angry work. The kind of read that makes you wish you were a film producer.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining and surreal, May 17, 2001

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David Sticher (Scotia, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Slaughtermatic (Paperback)

Buñuel meets Tarantino meets Gibson in this ultraviolent, surreal mess of cyberpunk cliches. Coherency here is traded off for significant amounts of imagination and entertainment value, as well as a few sharp notions here and there; the result reads more like verse than prose, and your enjoyment of the material will vary directly with how much a psychotic, book-length, knee-deep-in-blood-and-shells poem appeals to you. It's not quite as deep as it thinks it is - or at least, it lacks the clarity to prove it - and the plot burbles into the background, but the energy and the verbal imagination never lets up. Recommended highly, but with reservations.