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Welcome to the world of Simon Lynxx and to one of the great overlooked novels of the 1980s. Con-man, filmmaker (currently working on producing Jesus 2001, what he calls the religious equivalent of The Godfather), descendent of a wealthy and prestigious New York family whose wealth and prestige are in sharp decline, racist and anti-Semite (though Simon dislikes all ethnic groups equally), possessor of never-satisfied appetites (food, women, drink, but most of all, money and more money), and the fastest talker since Falstaff, Simon is on a quest that goes backwards. Through the course of this 600-page novel, Simon loses, one by one, all of his senses, ending in a state of complete debilitation through which he is being made ready for eternity and possible salvation.
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Gunther Mainhardt
reviewed Take Five on December 25, 2013 Take Five
Reasons why you should read this novel:
1. It is funny.
2. Very very funny.
3. The prose is flinty.
4. The prose is fluid.
5. The prose is happy to be contradictory and incompatible with
itself.
6. The story is deeply moral.
7. The story is deeply immoral.
8. It will make you love our species a little more.
9. It will make you hate our species a little more.
10. It proves that anti-Semitic comments do not an anti-Semite
make.
11. And that racism can sometimes be the best way to combat
racists.
12. Did I mention how fucking brilliant the prose is?
13. It has more twists and turns than an episode of Sunset Beach.
14. Its hero is not, I would argue, an anti-hero but a bona-fide,
straight up hero - after the horrors of that childhood, the
fact that he remained (despite all his bluster) a deeply
caring and moral person is pretty close to a miracle.
15. It is one hell of a fun ride. So much so that I have twice, so
far, nearly missed my train stop on the way home from work as
I was too absorbed in reading.
16. It is profoundly terrifying.
17. It is truly Christian, which is a very rare thing, and therefore has great power over a grumpy old atheist like myself.
18. Because the last 20 or so pages will leave you speechless with admiration.
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