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angus_mckeogh's review against another edition
3.0
My first foray into "bizarro fiction". I wouldn't call this book a masterpiece, and it's certainly not the pinnacle of literary form or storytelling. But it was ridiculously campy, overtly disgusting, and cornily entertaining. I never reached a section where I considered setting it aside because I'd lost interest which for the moment is something to be said for whatever I've been reading. At least something fun enough to finish compared to the over-the-top boring "literary" works I seem to be immersed in recently. I'll definitely read something else by him in the future.
euzie's review against another edition
3.0
Yup, pretty messed up alright.Read it in one sitting over a couple of hours. Once I had to stop for a second to digest what I had just read, due to it's erm ...let's just say imaginative description.
rogergeis's review
dark
funny
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
optimisticbooknerd's review against another edition
4.0
4 ⭐️
What in the world did I just read? I thought this initially was a slasher but it was so much more than that lol it kind of reminded me of Until Dawn but much more grotesque. It was awesome
What in the world did I just read? I thought this initially was a slasher but it was so much more than that lol it kind of reminded me of Until Dawn but much more grotesque. It was awesome
loser127's review against another edition
5.0
Never in my life have I laughed nervously after I finished a book. Apeshit lives up to its title. It is absolutely apeshit. It’s bonkers. It’s like Jack Ketchum had a baby with Cthulhu and the baby was raised by Krusty the Klown and later did LSD every day. It’s wild, gross, screwed up, and better than the stuff they make you read in college. But, read at your own expense.
You’ve been warned.
You’ve been warned.
dantastic's review against another edition
4.0
Six teenagers go to a cabin in the woods for a weekend of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Little did they know they'd end up with a psychotic monster trying to kill them...
Wow. This was the goriest, craziest, goriest book I've read this year. I realize I said "goriest" twice but this book is so gory I thought one "goriest" wasn't going to cut it. It started out like a typical slasher movie. Three guys, three girls, various sexual entanglements. Then the inbred mutant showed up and things got turned upside down. I devoured it in two sittings. Luckily, not while I was trying to eat.
Seriously, there's enough weird sex and gore in this book to sate anyone's bloodlust. How many books have you read that feature a woman with her intestines hanging out for half the book, a woman with an abortion fetish, and another with teeth in her vagina? And all that's in the first forty or fifty pages! Much weirder things happen later.
The twist at the end was nicely done. I was wondering how everyone was still alive and the ending wrapped things up very neatly.
While it's definitely not for the squeamish, Apeshit is a crazy tribute to slasher flicks and is quite a wild ride. Just don't try to read it while you're eating.
Wow. This was the goriest, craziest, goriest book I've read this year. I realize I said "goriest" twice but this book is so gory I thought one "goriest" wasn't going to cut it. It started out like a typical slasher movie. Three guys, three girls, various sexual entanglements. Then the inbred mutant showed up and things got turned upside down. I devoured it in two sittings. Luckily, not while I was trying to eat.
Seriously, there's enough weird sex and gore in this book to sate anyone's bloodlust. How many books have you read that feature a woman with her intestines hanging out for half the book, a woman with an abortion fetish, and another with teeth in her vagina? And all that's in the first forty or fifty pages! Much weirder things happen later.
The twist at the end was nicely done. I was wondering how everyone was still alive and the ending wrapped things up very neatly.
While it's definitely not for the squeamish, Apeshit is a crazy tribute to slasher flicks and is quite a wild ride. Just don't try to read it while you're eating.
bladeaok's review against another edition
5.0
this book was truly sick, sick like AWESOME and sick like vomit
booknerdqueen's review against another edition
4.0
This book was recommended to me after I read a bunch of splatterpunk horror. As a die-hard cheesy 80’s-90’s horror fan this book intrigued me.
So the story is basically about a group of teenagers going out to a secluded cabin for the weekend. Once they get to the cabin, we learned about a polyamory relationship, a vagina dentata and very different fetish (abortion porn).
The story was filled with weird shit which I learned afterwards that it’s part of a new kind of horror, Bizarro horror. The story wasn’t what I expected but kept me interested. It’s a very different genre for me, let’s see what else this author wrote!
So the story is basically about a group of teenagers going out to a secluded cabin for the weekend. Once they get to the cabin, we learned about a polyamory relationship, a vagina dentata and very different fetish (abortion porn).
The story was filled with weird shit which I learned afterwards that it’s part of a new kind of horror, Bizarro horror. The story wasn’t what I expected but kept me interested. It’s a very different genre for me, let’s see what else this author wrote!
helpfulsnowman's review against another edition
3.0
This one definitely goes in the "shocking for the sake of shock" category. That might sometimes be a valid critique of a book, buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut this one is called Apeshit, it has a blood-spattered woman wielding a machete with...let's call it 3/4 of her boobs out, and it's by Carlton Mellick III. So me being mad that this book does some shock for the sake of shock would be like being mad because Demolition Man has a few too many 'splosions for my taste. For the record, I'm fairly certain that Demolition Man has the exact right number of 'splosions, but because we can't add more in later, I'll never be completely sure. Perhaps one more would've really sealed the deal.
I've read a few CMIII (that's what I call him because we're tight like that. By us being "tight" I mean his name is kinda long for typing) books in the recent past that were pretty good and weren't so much going for shock value. Clownfellas, Quicksand House, and Tumor Fruit had more going for them, believe it or not. Apeshit didn't quite reach that level. I THOUGHT it was headed that way, but it takes a hard turn into crazytown.
I wouldn't recommend this as your first CMIII or trip into bizarro lit. Because I think this one is fun, but it also fulfills every idea people have about bizarro going in. This one is for the fans, I think. If you're that person who thinks maybe you'll never read anything shocking ever again, but you'd like to go ahead and try, this might be your jam.
I've read a few CMIII (that's what I call him because we're tight like that. By us being "tight" I mean his name is kinda long for typing) books in the recent past that were pretty good and weren't so much going for shock value. Clownfellas, Quicksand House, and Tumor Fruit had more going for them, believe it or not. Apeshit didn't quite reach that level. I THOUGHT it was headed that way, but it takes a hard turn into crazytown.
I wouldn't recommend this as your first CMIII or trip into bizarro lit. Because I think this one is fun, but it also fulfills every idea people have about bizarro going in. This one is for the fans, I think. If you're that person who thinks maybe you'll never read anything shocking ever again, but you'd like to go ahead and try, this might be your jam.
extraextrarotteneggs's review
4.5
its a real hit or miss with this book. you either like it or hate it. its truly disgusting, very odd, incredibly bizarre and leaves you asking what the fuck you just read...Yeah. I looooved the characters, but a lot of the gore was so ridiculous its hard to take seriously... i loved the book regardless, though!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Abortion, Animal death, Body horror, Murder, Pregnancy, Animal cruelty, Death, and Gore
Minor: Homophobia