Last Days

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As I found myself grinning and snickering, I was reminded of The Pilo Family Circus, another great piece of writing not to be missed that's a genius blend of genres containing the blackest of humor. At the same time, there is, in the mutilates’ microcosm, in a bloody denial of the functionality of the body (which also implies a blind and strictly normative concept of a perfectly functioning body, one of many exclusionary tactics pursued by the brotherhood), a strangely functionalist thinking involved.

Cuanto menos miembros tengan más cerca estarán de alcanzar esa divinidad y más alto es el rango dentro de su jerarquía. I don't know if enjoyment is a right word in this case, but I was barely able to tear myself away from it and couldn't wait to be able to get back to it and read to the very end. Y por otro tenemos al culto en sí y a todos los que lo integran; fanáticos capaces de mutilarse cualquier miembro con tal de seguir al pie de la letra sus absurdas creencias. Evenson uses cliffhangers masterfully, sometimes several per chapter, never allowing for things to slow down, not only keeping the suspense and interest of the reader but driving it higher and higher, higher and higher, until it becomes almost unbearable and we wish we could have read three pages at once, then four, five. Pudiera parecer una mala traducción , salvo alguna errata puntual, pero está escrita así con toda la intención.I love the way that Evenson kept us the reader, and our hero in the dark through most of this, only revealing to us the true plot "piece by piece"! To make sure the man couldn't murder him, Kline bought time by lopping off his own hand before killing the murder-minded malefactor. Especially since it’s possible, after all, to completely exchange the religious reading of the two sects with a political reading, which could focus on a contrast between a more collectivized, communistic ideology and a pseudo-individualistic ideology like capitalism. Kline certainly knows the danger he's in, and has in fact been boringly repetitious in his demands to be let go, let out, left alone. The first one, Brotherhood of Mutiliation was so popular that the author decided to expand on it and wrote a part two, Last Days.

Lucky for me, after many years lost in the wilderness, suffering many trials and tribulations, I’ve finally discovered the one true religion - Pastafarianism.I understand that Evenson is a voluntarily ex-communicated Mormon, something I am quite familiar with as my wife took the same route.

Ex-detective Kline is still recovering from his last case when members of a dark sect that believes amputation brings you closer to God kidnap him. There's plenty of imagery and elements associated with horror fiction here, especially the Weird kind; The pervading, Kafkaesque sense of helplesness and being lost in a labyrinth of the events that can't be comprehend is a prevailing theme, where the labyrinth is really a slide, and even though one wanders through its mazes they always somehow point downwards, where there's only darkness.None of them is forced to do it and the longer Kline stays among them, the more likely he is to succumb to their power structures himself. Former undercover cop Kline is at rock bottom, depressed and missing a hand, when a religious sect forcibly drafts him into service, ferreting out the killer of their leader.

Brian Evenson presents us with a whole compound full of people who have followed that logic to its extreme: the power structure they subscribed to leads to them lobbing off parts of their own bodies, of their own accord. These are spaces that, more and more, become his spaces, as the outside world is increasingly dangerous to and suspicious of him. For you brave souls willing to wade into the abyss, I’d advise you to skip over that rat-bastard Peter Straub’s introduction, where he attempts to spoil the entire plot.Una Hermandad donde para alcanzar la divinidad y acercarse a su Dios, promulga entre sus adeptos la amputación de sus miembros 🔪🩸💪🏻😵. And were I to do a more thorough and more detailed reading, I would find all kinds of other religious references. His books can be disturbing, both on a visceral and on an intellectual level, but then that’s what he’s paid to do, it’s a distinction of the genre he works in. German blogger, musician and novelist Daniel Kulla wrote a song ( Der Tausch) the refrain of which, loosely translated, starts like this: “nobody needs to force you / if you join in of your own accord”. Es en su parte final donde vuelve a mostrarnos más agilidad en los acontecimientos pero quizás de una manera demasiado acelerada, dejándonos con un final brusco que personalmente tampoco me ha gustado.