Wednesday, September 28, 2011
I SEE ANUS: HOUSE OF HOLES
From a list of words found in the new novel by Nicholson Baker, "House of Holes", compiled for the August 2011 issue of Harpers Magazine.
asswood ball-hankie beardwater
bonky boobosity boycone
brimmingness britneys cockbrisket
cockitude crotchal cuntatious
dickybird doodle-goo eggmate
floof flump fuckalope
groanroom hip-jouncing jizzler
joywave judder juicy-lucy
loinstem lovecream manslurp
maximus cheeks murfle; murflement peeny wanger
pelvisy pornfume purseness
scrotatiousness shudderation spicetime
splatterment thrummiest thumper bean
thundertube urgie-splurgey weeperhole
From the Amazon.com description of "House of Holes":
Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry. Ned drops down a hole in a golf course. Luna meets a man made of light bulbs at a tanning parlor. So begins Nicholson Baker’s fuse-blowing, sex-positive escapade, House of Holes. Baker, the bestselling author of The Mezzanine, Vox, and The Fermata, who “writes like no one else in America” (Newsweek), returns to erotic territory with a gleefully over-the-top novel set in a pleasure resort, where normal rules don’t apply. Visitors, pulled in via their drinking straws or the dryers in laundromats, can undergo crotchal transfers . . . make love to trees . . . visit the Groanrooms and the twelve-screen Porndecahedron . . . or pussy-surf the White Lake. It’s very expensive, of course, but there are work-study programs. In charge of day-to-day operations is Lila, a former hospital administrator whose breast milk has unusual regenerative properties.
Brimful of good-nature, wit, and surreal sexual vocabulary, House of Holes is a modern-day Hieronymous Boschian bacchanal that is sure to surprise, amuse, and arouse.
Labels:
erotic fiction,
Harpers Magazine,
House of Holes,
I See Anus,
literature
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I just read the book the other week, very dirty and very entertaining.
ReplyDeleteI will submit my request to hold it at the public library (they are free you know). Oh wait, I live in the Bible Belt where Harry Potter is viewed as satanic by many, and other people's babies really must be found under cabbage leaves since sex is a sin as well as what is wrong with America (besides that Nazi, Marxist, militant Kenyan in the White House.
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