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Spider Kiss (1961)

par Harlan Ellison

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"A dynamite piece of storytelling"--the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author turns to musical fiction in a novel of a rock star's tumultuous career (AllReaders.com). If you thought the only thing Ellison writes is speculative fiction, craziness about giant cockroaches that attack Detroit, or invaders from space who look like pink eggplant and smell like chicken soup, this dynamite novel of the emergent days of rock and roll will turn you around at least three times. No spaceships, no robots, just a nice kid from Louisville named Stag Preston with a voice like an angel, seductive moves like the devil, and an invisible monkey named Success riding him straight to hell . . .… (plus d'informations)
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This was a pretty good book and evidence again that Ellison is simply not constrained by genre. I had never read this assuming it was a bit of hack work from relatively early in Harlan's career, but like all the better pulpish writers he inserts his own voice and ideas into what is basically writing by the word.

True to most of Ellison's work, the primary strength here is character. Most of Ellison's work is really about well drawn characters thrust into paradoxical or odd situations. Shelly Morgenstern is so well executed that we feel he is a real person. We can relate to him on a personal level.

The first half of the novel particularly has a noirish feel with Morgenstern sitting in for the usual private dick with a conscience. There are even the typical hard boiled metaphors.

In the end I almost wanted Shelly to take another chance with Luther, the monster he discovered, but Ellison shows us that to dance with the demon ultimately requires selling your soul and all that brings with it. ( )
  Gumbywan | Jun 24, 2022 |
Early Ellison, a sort of take on Jerry Lee Lewis. An interesting read and compelling as usual, if a bit dated. ( )
  ThomasPluck | Apr 27, 2020 |
[a:Harlan Ellison|7415|Harlan Ellison|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1377708311p2/7415.jpg], I have the deepest of writing crushes upon you.

Now and then one comes across a writer whose every word titillates and entices. Reading their stories, regardless of what they are, is a pleasure: even their 'just ok' writing makes you think, makes you wonder, makes you hungry for more. I've a handful of authors I can think of that do that for me.
Unquestionably, Mr. [a:Harlan Ellison|7415|Harlan Ellison|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1377708311p2/7415.jpg] is one of them.

[b:Spider Kiss|13148|Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross, #2)|James Patterson|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1344270201s/13148.jpg|881425] is a rock and roll fable, effortlessly splicing together the various stories of a down and out kid and his meteoric rise to fame. Where [b:Spider Kiss|13148|Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross, #2)|James Patterson|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1344270201s/13148.jpg|881425] differs from other stories of this nature is not only the fact that it predates the now cliche trope becoming trope... it also is nowhere near the heartwarming story one is used to hearing. Real life often isn't that way, and Ellison certainly doesn't shy away from depicting real life.

Character flaws are abundant, and for that the character's come off as rather more human. The fable is a fable, and as such the stereotypes do exist within the text. All the same, the stereotypes reinforce what audiences have been sold for ages now. It's incredible to think that this book was written in 1960, and it's more incredible that this book isn't better known.

Music fans? You gotta read this, if only for how well it mirrors the stories we all know so well. ( )
  Lepophagus | Jun 14, 2018 |
When I first picked this book up, I had read a bit of Ellison's work here and there. Short stories mostly, as that is typically what he writes. I didn't know at all what to expect from this book, but I was very pleasantly surprised. If you're a fan of the behind-the-scenes of the lives of notorious celebrities, the idea that fame given to the wrong person can become catastrophic, then this book will appeal to you. It takes that concept and blows it up into something really menacing and fascinating. This book cemented that I would seek out more of Ellison's work, and I'm definitely not sorry. ( )
  Nickidemus | Sep 18, 2014 |
Harlan Ellison has an amazing gift of pulling a reader into his stories, even when one isn't particularly interested in the subject of the story. I had only read his science fiction before this. I picked up this book on vacation knowing nothing about it, and could hardly put it down. Love or hate the man (I'll go with love but he is rather polarizing), you have to love his writing. ( )
  Unreachableshelf | Jul 9, 2007 |
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"A dynamite piece of storytelling"--the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author turns to musical fiction in a novel of a rock star's tumultuous career (AllReaders.com). If you thought the only thing Ellison writes is speculative fiction, craziness about giant cockroaches that attack Detroit, or invaders from space who look like pink eggplant and smell like chicken soup, this dynamite novel of the emergent days of rock and roll will turn you around at least three times. No spaceships, no robots, just a nice kid from Louisville named Stag Preston with a voice like an angel, seductive moves like the devil, and an invisible monkey named Success riding him straight to hell . . .

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