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When a young graduate of the Israeli army decides to moonlight as an assistant nurse at a mental institution in Jerusalem, the job seems like a nice break from everyday life in the Promised Land. What could be easier than exercising power over a small group of heavily medicated zombies? But as the human inventory inside the insane asylum begins to mirror the psychotic norms of the outside world, the inexperienced ex-soldier finds himself trapped in a hilarious yet terrifying freak show, surrounded by a motley crew of mad patients gone madder: a religious poet who writes obsessive love sonnets to a Hollywood porn queen, a charming racist who wears only purple, a criminally insane murderer who doesn't believe in anything (not even in nihilism) . . . and that's just for starters. Here is a fast-and-furious first novel saturated with ruminations on sexual aberration, heavy metal, structural linguistics, horror movies, and satanic poetry - the good things in life.… (plus d'informations)
The basic storyline of [[Gilad Elbom]]’s [Scream Queens of the Dead Sea] is a brilliant deadpan, but hilarious, look at the author’s own life mirrored within his novel. We accompany the author in his job as assistant nurse in a mental institute, wonder at his love for heavy metal bands, puzzle over his sexual escapades (are all these real?), and admire his love for learning (linguistics is his forte). Within the story, he’s forever throwing little darts at those political and religious issues within contemporary Israeli culture which make no sense to him. Unfortunately, some of these barbs might go over the heads of those not more familiar with modern Israel.
At work on the evening shift, Gilad has seven patients under his care. Each patient has his own issues, but, at the same time, each individual’s issues seem to be indicative of further problems within Israel’s greater society.
The story was fun to read except for some tangents that for me became excruciating. I kept wanting to return to the main storyline. Perhaps the author had a bit too much to say, some of which didn’t interest me at all.
Nevertheless, this is an impressive work for a first novel and an interesting way to introduce Israeli culture to the world at large. The Boston Review says this book "reads like a version of Catch-22 written by Chuck Palahniuk." I think that's a very apt description of this novel. Like parts of Catch-22, some lines of Elbom’s novel were laugh out loud funny, and, like the works of Chuck Palahniuk, I did not complete the novel without finding something to gross me out. ( )
Parts of this book were absolutely genius, but some parts were as bad as the good ones were good. The mental institution characters were fantastic and really intriguing - not to mention believable - but the narrator's relationship with his married ex-girlfriend is just over the top and I don't believe in either character when they talk to each other. The whole meta-novel thing is just too old. Having the narrator point out that he knows that it's old doesn't really help the case - that's been done ad nauseam too... If the whole novel had taken place in the mental institution, with those characters carrying the whole plot, I would have absolutely loved it. Now, I'll rate it humdrum with an extra little point for the title. ( )
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I don't know why I'm writing this book in a foreign language when I have at my disposal such a beautiful mother tongue.
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Uriah Einhorn walks out of the station, holding his empty plastic cup with both hands, and Desta Ezra steps forward and looks at me for a few seconds, then walks away, shaking her head, and Immanuel Sebastian says to Abe Goldmil that the new one still needs work, especially the line where you compare her to a sunflower, and they turn around and leave, and Amos Ashkenazi says to Hadassah Benedict that he wants to buy Ben-Yehuda Street, but Hadassah Benedict says that Ben-Yehuda is expensive, do you have money, and Amos Ashkenazi says that he just passed Go, and they both step back into the game room.
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When a young graduate of the Israeli army decides to moonlight as an assistant nurse at a mental institution in Jerusalem, the job seems like a nice break from everyday life in the Promised Land. What could be easier than exercising power over a small group of heavily medicated zombies? But as the human inventory inside the insane asylum begins to mirror the psychotic norms of the outside world, the inexperienced ex-soldier finds himself trapped in a hilarious yet terrifying freak show, surrounded by a motley crew of mad patients gone madder: a religious poet who writes obsessive love sonnets to a Hollywood porn queen, a charming racist who wears only purple, a criminally insane murderer who doesn't believe in anything (not even in nihilism) . . . and that's just for starters. Here is a fast-and-furious first novel saturated with ruminations on sexual aberration, heavy metal, structural linguistics, horror movies, and satanic poetry - the good things in life.
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At work on the evening shift, Gilad has seven patients under his care. Each patient has his own issues, but, at the same time, each individual’s issues seem to be indicative of further problems within Israel’s greater society.
The story was fun to read except for some tangents that for me became excruciating. I kept wanting to return to the main storyline. Perhaps the author had a bit too much to say, some of which didn’t interest me at all.
Nevertheless, this is an impressive work for a first novel and an interesting way to introduce Israeli culture to the world at large. The Boston Review says this book "reads like a version of Catch-22 written by Chuck Palahniuk." I think that's a very apt description of this novel. Like parts of Catch-22, some lines of Elbom’s novel were laugh out loud funny, and, like the works of Chuck Palahniuk, I did not complete the novel without finding something to gross me out. (