Andrew Wayne Adams

Jack is the janitor on the entire Planet Anilingus, a planet dedicated to...well, you can look it up yourself. Anyway, Jack is employed by the Vatican, who runs the planet, as well as other planets dedicated to every fetish imaginable. However, at this time during Lent, the planet is deserted except for Jack. Or is it?

It turns out that he's not alone. But who, or what, is the mysterious woman Nimue, and who is trying to kill her, and why? All these questions are answered (yes, they are ALL answered) in Janitor of Planet Anilingus by Andrew Wayne Adams.

Jack himself starts as a rather dull character, but it's probably what makes him more identifiable. He's just trying to do his job. He has his routine. He mostly wants to be left alone to his life and his work, but grudgingly accepts that he can't necessarily do so. He's sort of an everyman. On a planet dedicated to anilingus.

Again, the editing in this year's class of the New Bizarro Authors Series has been excellent. They're not falling into the pitfall of grammar, punctuation, or spelling mistakes that pull the reader off the page, and I've complained about before. It makes this book so much more enjoyable.

And it's really, really good. Of this year's NBAS books, this one has so far been my favorite. Despite the name, there's not as much sex as one would think. It's actually an exploration of religion, gods, dragons, devils, and the nature of life. With anilingus. Hey, it is a bizarro book after all. This book is actually really high-concept, which is strange. This is the second NBAS book this year that I've described as being deep. So either they're getting better, or I'm getting more shallow. Only time will tell on that one.

As I've mentioned, Janitor of Planet Anilingus is part of the 2012-2013 class of the New Bizarro Authors Series, which means that this is the author's first published novel. With quality and concepts like those in this book, Adams should have a promising career ahead of him. This book gets a high recommendation.

Janitor of Planet Anilingus by Andrew Wayne Adams earns 5 snaking tongues out of 5, and an attempt to see how many times I can mention anilingus in one review.… (mais)

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Review snippet: I started this book with no small amount of trepidation. As it is, about 35% of the search strings that bring people to my site involve necrophilia and horse dildos. I wondered what legacy this book would leave behind in the searches I view daily in my site statistics. Moreover, the title itself is enough to give one a bit of pause, I think. Planet Anilingus was likely to be a place wherein a tired woman would find little solace as she read late into the night, her husband snoring lightly, the suburban street silent as the normal people slept on, unaware that there was a place in the literary landscape dedicated to anus-licking.

Luckily for me, Janitor of Planet Anilingus is not the utterly ass-centric debauch I thought it would be. It has its moments of sexual lunacy but this is mostly a quest novel wherein a man loses everything as he tries to save the woman he thinks he loves. It has some atrociously gross moments, don’t get me wrong, but one of bizarro’s secrets is that the stories are the same as those you will find on the best-seller list. The stories differ only because they are peppered with unusual sex, weird species, grotesque details and strange and over-the-top humor.

The hero of this novella, Jack, as the title implies, is the janitor of Planet Anilingus. Planet Anilingus is a sort of destination spot, a DisneyWorld of sorts, for people deeply involved in butt-licking. Jack is completing a 40-day period, a time of Lent, wherein the planet is closed to visitors, spending his time tidying up and doing a deep clean before the revelers return. He is the only person on the planet, until a hairless, humanoid woman with helicopter blades that shoot up from her back lands on the planet. Someone is trying to kill this hairless woman, Nimue, and Jack does his best to protect her. In the course of his interactions with Nimue, he stops going to work and his boss, Bishop Eichmann, replaces him with his nephew Tommy. Tommy and Jack enter into a rivalry for Nimue’s attention and both end up, god help me, pregnant after her sexual ministrations. What the pregnancy does to the men is easily the grossest part of the book but I enjoyed it because poopy stuff makes me laugh. Nimue ultimately is not what she seems and even knowing of her sexual perfidy with Tommy, Jack still wants to save her from the rocket launching lunatic chasing her. Jack is not a man given to much in the way of emotion, probably because all the ass licking he witnesses has numbed him, and it’s an interesting choice on Adams’ part to insist that Jack be so removed emotionally because in the midst of all the chaos, any one else would have freaked out.… (mais)