Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #352872 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Customer Reviews

The true nature of love shines throughout this book
I first heard about this book via a song called 'Geek Love' by a band called Bang Bang Machine. (as far as I'm aware, the song is based on the book) The song talks of what is to 'love but never be loved'. Years later I came across the book, and from the minute I picked it up I couldn't but it down.
It really does explore the nature of human relationships - of love, of family, and of societies non-acceptance of anything not of the 'norm'. Katherine Dunn really has written a powerful account of what it is to love somebody/something and never really be loved in return. And although the book is centered around 'geeks' it tells a story of human emotion that everyone - even perfect looking humans can relate too.

Electrifying, Unique, Fiction is not dead!
This book restored my faith in modern fiction. If you're sick of writers with their heads up their own posteriors writing about how difficult is is to be a rich, succesful writer READ THIS. If this book had been written in the 1930s-50s it would be a Classic read alongside Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Greene etc. If Russell Hoban, James Thurber, Joe Orton and William S Burroughs had got together to write a book it might have been something like this - but probably not as good. It is usually a mistake to try to explain the plot to anyone because it just sounds like some sort of disgusting freak-fest that should only appeal to teenage boys. I just insist that people read it and 99% of them have been hooked from the first page. Dunn writes as though the characters are real people to her - so they appear real to us. The book has a sort of contagious magic about it, I felt happy for a week after finishing it, but it was a "sad" happiness; I had lost the wonderful world I had been drawn into but I felt changed by the experience (a cliche, but true). I thought I would never again feel like I did as a teenager when discovering Graham Greene, or Tolkein, or CS Lewis, or E Nesbitt, but Geek Love made me fall in love with books again. Just one warning: if you read it you will want to buy 10 more copies for your best friends - so it could end up being expensive. Katherine Dunn is truly a genius.

A stunningly fantastic read
I was recommended this book by a work colleague and I'll listen to her recommendations again. An absolutely fantastic story, poignant and extremely funny. Characters in this book actually made me feel physically angry, while others made me want to cry. And oh the description of The Fist... hee hee hee. Read Geek Love you won't be disappointed.