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Title: THE MOST AUSPICIOUS DEBUT... EVER (?)
Review: I was lucky enough to get my mitts on a proof of KISS ME JUDAS and, boy, while reading it I felt like having a live wire plugged to my brain. Press releases compare the novel to David Lynch's flicks and whatnot, but I think ANY comparison is totally unjust and demeaning. Will Cristopher Baer's book is a true original: a hopiated, hallucinated, darker-than-dark tour thru a surreal world; a doomed love story from hell; a stylistic tour de force. Oh, and don't forget the "noir" slant, too: compared to this gem, Jim Thompson's oeuvre (which I love) looks like something straight out of the Cenozoic age. Gettin' to the point: KISS ME, JUDAS is true literature for the new millenium, and W.C. Baer is going to become a cult figure in no time. Just wait and see.
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