Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy [Paperback]

Bradley Sands (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 30, 2010

Bizarro humorist Bradley Sands returns with one of the strangest, most hilarious collections of the year. In Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy, the pope gets sued, a headless man falls in love with a bowl of rice, and architects dismantle the earth. A war breaks out over greeting cards. A suicidal amputee tries to kill himself. William S. Burroughs becomes an amateur archaeologist and Tao Lin drinks an ape-flavored smoothie. Between a breakfast of clocks, a lunch date with Adolf Hitler, and breakdancing in outer space, anything is possible in the work of Bradley Sands. Just never wear a bear costume to an orgy.

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

"Nothing I could dream up compares to the strangeness and wildness of Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy. You should read this book." - SHANE JONES, author of Light Boxes

"Words cannot express what Bradley Sands can do with words. Every page in this book is shocking, hilarious, sad and surprising. Reading it is like crowd-surfing a bookstore full of basketball players on MDMA." - MYKLE HANSEN, author of HELP! A Bear is Eating Me!

"Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy is like an Adult Swim show written by Russell Edson." - CARLTON MELLICK III, author of The Faggiest Vampire

"There's a place past all reason, most possibility, and all the jokes I can think of. A place shaped kind of like the human heart. Bradley Sands doesn't write about this place, but he writes from it, pushing farther into the unguessable with each word, each scene." - STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES, author of Demon Theory & It Came From Del Rio

"A new strange amusement." - DENVER EXAMINER

Product Details

• Paperback: 130 pages
• Publisher: Eraserhead Press (September 30, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1936383152
• ISBN-13: 978-1936383153
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.3 x 5.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #256,203 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Bradley Sands is an author of bizarro fiction. He wrote TV Snorted My Brain, Please Do Not Shoot Me in the Face: A Novel, Rico Slade Will F*cking Kill You, Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy, and other books.

Visit him at www.bradleysands.com

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars The best short-form bizarro fiction book I've ever read November 20, 2010

By Christopher Fraser

Format:Paperback

Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy is a brilliant book, no question. It's now the latest in a collection of around 25 bizarro books that I own, and if it isn't my favourite (that remains Satan Burger, and I'll be surprised if that ever shifts), then it's certainly the best book of bizarro short stories I own.

Here's my one problem, and it lies in the testimonials at the start. Carlton Mellick, considered by most to be the High Priest of bizarro, the man whose writing kicked it all off, describes it as "like an Adult Swim show written by Russell Edson". And... it's not. Part of what sets bizarro fiction apart is that it's incomparable to anything, even a mash-up of seemingly disparate genres. For a start, the number of styles and themes covered in Sorry... are so diverse that to label it as anything other than unpredictable would be foolish. And in this book, Sands employs a way of telling stories that isn't quite experimental, but at the same time feels completely new - he throws up a series of images that at once manage to be funny, strange and yet somehow familiar. It never feels, as a lot of fiction in the genre tends to, as if he's pushing the boundaries of taste, or reality, or anything else for its own sake. A lot of bizarro fiction deserves the unhealthy label of "transgressive fiction" - this feels like bizarro is at a pivotal moment, at the point of carving a place for itself within the literary canon.

Cult fiction can only stay so for so long, and then it either becomes stale or grows up. This book might be a marker for the fact that, at last, it's achieving the latter - remaining distinct and fantastical, while showing an emotional and intellectual maturity that previous works failed to reach.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Chock full of wtf. November 29, 2010

By J. Wilson

Format:Paperback

Sands presents a diverse variety of strange and incredible happenings in such a straightforward manner that disbelief or belief becomes a non-issue. After a while you find yourself contentedly following wherever he leads. Kind of like he's trying to control your brain for everyone's amusement. His homage to Burroughs is worth the price of admission itself but is just the bonus cherry on top of a heap of good carp. Not to be missed.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars If Dali was a bearded author.... November 25, 2010

By R. Roeske

Format:Paperback

I really enjoy Bradley Sands' work. He's definitely in my top 5 favorite Bizarro authors. He's like the bearded, author version of Dali. His writing is fabulously absurd and surreal. It's fantastic to picture the stories as one reads.

I'm quite partial to variety. There were bits flash fiction, short stories, and poetry. I'm not a fan of poetry, but I rather liked the pieces in here. This was a very smart collection of stories. It goes the humorous route, instead of shocking.

(Shoot! I forgot to mention that I got a big kick out of hamsters showing up in at least 2 of the stories. There's a huge shortage of hamsters in the genre.I'm a huge hamster fan.)