Bigot Hall: A Gothic Childhood

Author - Steve Aylett ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Paperback Book item from Serif Publishing was reviewed on 11-Dec-2008.

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1) Paperback Book Bigot Hall: A Gothic Childhood by Serif Publishing. This book will make you laugh, because it is very, very funny. I firmly believe this.
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2) Paperback Book Bigot Hall: A Gothic Childhood by Serif Publishing. is excellent. Imagine Jean Shephard´s childhood with the surrealistic slant of alien boarders, living dead relatives, incestuous daydreams. Yes, you will shoot your eye out.¤

3) Paperback Book Bigot Hall: A Gothic Childhood by Serif Publishing. I laughed out loud many times when reading this. I became a huge Steve Aylett fan after reading Slaughtermatic and this collection of stories certainly doesn´t disappoint. The episodes with Roger Lang and in general anytime Snap and the Verger get together are hilarious.¤

4) Paperback Book Bigot Hall: A Gothic Childhood by Serif Publishing. Steve Aylett, Bigot Hall (Serif, 1995)

I spent the first few pages of this book alternating between offense and amusement. After a while, it hit me that I hadn´t laughed out loud this many times per page at any book in quite a while, so I dropped the offense.

Imagine In God We Trust - All Others Pay Cash (the book that inspired the classic film A Christmas Story) jacked up on PCP and going on a crime spree and you have Bigot Hall, Steve Aylett´s impressionist biography of hands down the most interesting family in all of literature. The narrator, a nameless adolescent called "laughing boy" by friends and family alike, turns his jaundiced eye upon most every family member and lodger at the family´s country estate, a living (or at the very least highly unstable, from a dimensional perspective) mansion known as Bigot Hall. Amidst the witty repartee (and this would make a good handbook for those who like to find stultifyingly obtuse .sig files) these rather twisted characters come to life quite nicely, to the point where one can almost believe some of the book´s most outrageous moments. I won´t spoil them for you, you´ll have to read it yourself, but let´s just say Aylett pulled off a pretty nice chunk of real estate in making the Verger´s predicament seem not only plausible, but completely in line with the rest of the doings about him.

As with all books of the "selected glimpses of life" genre, there´s no plot here, so the book must rely on nothing but character development to succeed, and it does so quite nicely. It´s also choke-on-your-manacles funny from beginning to end. ****¤

5) Paperback Book Bigot Hall: A Gothic Childhood by Serif Publishing. Brilliant imagery and wonderful insights but did not go anywhere-loosely compare it to Tarentino´s Pulp Fiction....a series of really cool images, but not much of a storyteller¤

6) Paperback Book Bigot Hall: A Gothic Childhood by Serif Publishing. Bigot Hall is the nightmare home of a family most people would rather forget. Uncle Burst´s belief that his face is made of pasta is one of the milder notions with which he regales the family. Uncle Snapper is confined to a treehouse because of the uncontrollable urges he feels once is gun is loaded. Uncle Blute drowned in the lake at the wheel of his Morris Traveller, where he remains perfectly preserved. And Nanny Jack refuses all efforts to bury her and strikes terror into her relatives´ hearts as she abandons yet another final resting place. Throughout this happy breed strolls a nameless anti-hero, who, when not kidnapped by clowns or puzzling out the fossilised family tree, is passionately in love with his spaced-out sister, Adrienne ...¤

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