Carlton Mellick III
Autor(a) de Satan Burger
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Séries
Obras por Carlton Mellick III
Red World 2 exemplares
Cancer-Cute 1 exemplar
Porno In August 1 exemplar
Hamburger Clock 1 exemplar
Insel der Meerjungfrauen 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection (2003) — Contribuidor — 234 exemplares
Bizarro Bazar — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1977-07-02
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Locais de residência
- Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Portland, Oregon, USA - Educação
- Clarion West (2008)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 77
- Also by
- 10
- Membros
- 2,897
- Popularidade
- #8,843
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 98
- ISBN
- 105
- Línguas
- 4
- Marcado como favorito
- 16
This book touches on certain themes that are actually taking place in real-time in certain parts of the world. Nine year olds who don't believe in Santa, need to be "mature" and focus on studying. I've lived in countries where the suicide rate for teenagers and elementary school students was significant. Then I consider sweatshops littered across developing countries across continents and actually even hidden in what people call 1st world societies. Childhood is losing it's childlike wonder, joy and innocence and fast becoming the "blurry" side of town found in this novella.
Speaking of Blurry, I found the description of how the Blurriness infected the "happy people" and how the blurry engulfed anyone who entered quite well written. Maybe the Blurries don't even know they're blurryvbecause blurry is all they've ever known.
This book had everything, the gluttony of the richer societies via Timmy the fat stalker. The poverty if the majority via The Blurry side of town. Sally the saviour who turned out to be the bringer of doom instead. And the consequences of wishing things into existence. I'll tell you something for nothing; genies, leprechauns, fairied, rainbow pirates, the lot of them are sneaky trickster gods trying to bring about the downfall of humanity one wish at a time.… (mais)