The Dead End Follies Awards are almost over. Today the awards for best female and best male characters are handed out. They are the would-be equivalent to best lead actor and actress in the Oscars ceremony (that's what I'd like to think anyway). Make sure to bookmark and check tomorrow who will win the award for best novel.
BEST FEMALE CHARACTER
Anthony Neil Smith for Octavia VanderPlaats (CHOKE ON YOUR LIES)
I have quite never read anything like CHOKE ON YOUR LIES before and most of this has to do with the beaming raging...oh wait. She's here. Oh fuck. Well...ladies and gentlemen....here she is, accepting her prize! Octavia VanderPlaats!
I have quite never read anything like CHOKE ON YOUR LIES before and most of this has to do with the beaming raging...oh wait. She's here. Oh fuck. Well...ladies and gentlemen....here she is, accepting her prize! Octavia VanderPlaats!
"I won what? From who? A blog? And the little nerdburger wants me to accept his crappy, assuredly potato chip oil (and jizz) stained trophy? Look, my time is very valuable. There are meals to eat and people to shame. There is money to spend and women to hook up with. Not to mention all the times I have to keep Mick from tripping over his own dick and into more trouble with whatever pussy he's become enamored of this week.
So please tell Mr. Lelievre, and make you're very close and personal when you deliver the message, that he needs to find something better to do with his time than read a piece of shit pulp novel written by a blithering wannabe-romantic poet and heap praise about it as if it's on par with the greats of literature like Poe and Lovecraft and Baudelaire. Rex Stout my ass.
And also, he should probably wash off any other trophies before handing them out. We don't need to know that much about him."
(Thanks to Anthony Neil Smith for the collaboration)
Read my review of CHOKE ON YOUR LIES
Buy CHOKE ON YOUR LIES here
BEST MALE CHARACTER
Aaron Philip Clark for Paul Little (THE SCIENCE OF PAUL)
Is she gone? Please somebody lock the door. Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, Paul Little. The drifter is a very tricky character to nail. You don't want him to be Jack Reacher and you don't want him to end up in a ditch. The beauty in Paul Little is how Aaron Philip Clarke illustrated how badly he is torn in between the life he knows and the life he dreams about. He's a product of the streets, it's the world he fits in and yet he knows it's going to kill him. I have never read another novel where you go that far in the mind of what would be another writer's petty thug. THE SCIENCE OF PAUL is a soulful portrait of a man living in a soulless world. Honorable mention to Matthew McBride's Nick Valentine who is a close second for this award.
Read my review of THE SCIENCE OF PAUL
Buy THE SCIENCE OF PAUL here
Read my review of CHOKE ON YOUR LIES
Buy CHOKE ON YOUR LIES here
BEST MALE CHARACTER
Is she gone? Please somebody lock the door. Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, Paul Little. The drifter is a very tricky character to nail. You don't want him to be Jack Reacher and you don't want him to end up in a ditch. The beauty in Paul Little is how Aaron Philip Clarke illustrated how badly he is torn in between the life he knows and the life he dreams about. He's a product of the streets, it's the world he fits in and yet he knows it's going to kill him. I have never read another novel where you go that far in the mind of what would be another writer's petty thug. THE SCIENCE OF PAUL is a soulful portrait of a man living in a soulless world. Honorable mention to Matthew McBride's Nick Valentine who is a close second for this award.
Read my review of THE SCIENCE OF PAUL
Buy THE SCIENCE OF PAUL here