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~ (Author) "I rose above the bed; rolled; inspected the reanimated corpse sprawled beneath me, its head pillowed in an ecstasy of flesh..." (more)
Key Phrases: black orgasm, goblin girl, little bonbon, Princess Frenzetta, The Abortion, Castle Duino (more...)
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Sex and death, lyricism and brutality mingle in the story (not for the faint of heart) of a brain-eating reanimated corpse's love for a half-human, half-rat princess on a dying future earth. Duane Duarte and his virginal lover Princess Frenzetta, aka Frenzy, travel across continents doing violence to those who stand in their way (the decaying hero, for instance, punches a man so hard that his spinal chord ends up in Duane's fist, and the man's neck snaps "like wet hickory") as they seek passage to the moon, which was once used as a prison and is now rumored to be a sanctuary in Richard Calder's Frenzetta
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'Dark, edgy and inflicted with just the right degree of lyricism' WILLIAM GIBSON '[Calder's writing] explodes in your face like a fistful of fireworks' PAUL J McAULEY --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press (May 12, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1568582293
  • ISBN-13: 978-1568582290
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,220,643 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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I rose above the bed; rolled; inspected the reanimated corpse sprawled beneath me, its head pillowed in an ecstasy of flesh. Read the first page
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black orgasm, goblin girl, little bonbon, matter transmitter, goblin princess
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Princess Frenzetta, The Abortion, Castle Duino, Duane Duarte, Prester John, The Piazzetta, K'un-lun Mountain, The Candyman, Dux Pietro, King of the Rats, Miss Frenzy, Times Square, Bay of Sistiana, Empress Dowager, Nirvana City
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5.0 out of 5 stars Book of the Perverse, July 5, 2003
Not for the faint of heart and weak of stomach, this is one of the best novels I had the pleasure to read this year. It's a book both wonderful and disturbing in its portrayal of sensuous exoticism and mind-numbing brutality, with Calder's baroque prose rarely, if ever, missing a beat.
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2.0 out of 5 stars A step down from Dead Girls, November 6, 2005
By Joshua Weiner (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews
I picked this up after reading Calder's Dead Things trillogy which I enjoyed a great deal for its fetishistic, perverse, and increasingly disjointed world. Frenzetta does create an interesting world which could provide an interesting story but it seems that Calder has lost his pace.

One of the major drives in Dead Things was the fetishistic intensity which he sucessfully integrated into the plot. The same intensity is present in this book but the world he created disallows the same integration in to the story. As a result, it comes off as obscessive rather than interesting.

I was even more dissapointed by The Twist so while this wasn't as good as I expected, it was still readable. If you're a Calder fan, its worth a read... as long as you find it used.

Otherwise Calder needs to give up on the deadly dolly thing until he can make it work again.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting concept, December 1, 2003
By Max Metral "djmaxm" (Boston, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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Overall definitely worth reading. I thought there was a little "thesaurus action" here, i.e. using larger words for the impact of the size rather than the story. The concepts of species diversity are fresh and interesting, although as a science guy I would've like some more exploration into that process and how it happened.
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