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The Four Fingers of Death

Rick Moody

Hardcover | Pages: 725 pages

Rating: 3.35 | 772 Users | 175 Reviews

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ISBN:	0316118915 (ISBN13: 9780316118910)
Edition Language:	English

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Montese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose rare collection of baseball cards won't sustain him, financially or emotionally, through the grave illness of his wife. Luckily, he swindles himself a job churning out a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror classic, "The Crawling Hand." Crandall tells therein of the United States, in a bid to regain global eminence, launching at last its doomed manned mission to the desolation of Mars. Three space pods with nine Americans on board travel three months, expecting to spend three years as the planet's first colonists. When a secret mission to retrieve a flesh-eating bacterium for use in bio-warfare is uncovered, mayhem ensues.

Only a lonely human arm (missing its middle finger) returns to earth, crash-landing in the vast Sonoran Desert of Arizona. The arm may hold the secret to reanimation or it may simply be an infectious killing machine. In the ensuing days, it crawls through the heartbroken wasteland of a civilization at its breaking point, economically and culturally--a dystopia of lowlife, emigration from America, and laughable lifestyle alternatives.

The Four Fingers of Death is a stunningly inventive, sometimes hilarious, monumental novel. It will delight admirers of comic masterpieces like Slaughterhouse-Five, The Crying of Lot 49, and Catch-22.

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Title	:	The Four Fingers of Death
Author	:	Rick Moody
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 725 pages
Published	:	July 28th 2010 by Little, Brown and Company (first published July 8th 2010)
Categories	:	Fiction. Science Fiction. Literary Fiction

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Normally I'm a big fan of Rick Moody's writing, but The Four Fingers of Death was kind of disappointing.It was hardly original, and its strange attempt at being funny ended up nothing but a mess of crass humor, pop culture and perpetually boring characters. Normally Rick Moody's novels focus more on nostalgia, not on trendy science fiction, and I think that this book was nothing but an attempt to cash in on the current dystopian craze.

As the spread of stars associated with this book's reviews might indicate, readers seem to be polarized by this farcical, absurdist romp through the near-future--this is a book that either fits the reader like a four-fingered glove, or else one would like to poke out her eyeballs with the missing digit rather than read one more page. I liked it, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's any good.This is a book that's difficult to summarize, and even if one tries, it probably would only diminish any

Rick Moody admits, in his afterword, that he was raised on a steady diet of grade-B sci-fi/horror movies and the novels of Kurt Vonnegut as a young man. This is quite evident in his epic satirical sci-fi novel "The Four Fingers of Death", a surprisingly superb science fiction/horror thriller with some scathingly funny social commentary.The structure of the novel is basically a novel-within-a-novel, a novelization of a 2024 movie entitled "The Four Fingers of Death", which is itself a remake of a

AUTHOR WRITES ENTIRE NEW BOOK OVERNIGHT, SAYS HE DOESN'T NEED EDITORSAuthor Rick Moody wrote more than 725 pages last night, completing his novel one hour before his last deadline this morning. Moody heralded the work as a victory for procrastinators everywhere.This has been a really long time coming, said Moody. Im so glad I could eventually get around to meeting my publishers deadline. I totally forgot that was supposed to hit the presses today, so I paused Rock Band, just knocked back about

Wow. What can I say?A novelist who boasts of an ability to distill the entirety of his novels into a sentence of six or seven words who writes an introduction the the size of a novella. An astronaut on a mission to Mars copes with the disintegrating morale and sanity of fellow crew members by writing blog posts with utter candor and something approaching a sort of naivete. A Korean scientist who stores his French wife in a refrigerator whose relationship with his son is strained. The son has

In 1955, eight years before Thomas Pynchon's V., and two years after Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March, a young writer by the name of William Gaddis unleashed a nine-hundred and fifty-six page novel upon the scene of mid-twentieth century literature entitled The Recognitions. The novel itself dealt with the curious theme of artistic forgery, and concerned a young artist by the name of Wyatt Gwyon and his Mephistophelean contract with an American art dealer by the name of Recktall Brown.

theres something uniquely frustrating about reading a book that has so many small moments of beauty and gorgeous empathy only to find them wedged in between monstrous sections of utterly self-indulgent and boring prose that made reading this feel like a chore. I couldnt bring myself to care about the rest enough not to skim my way through the second half. if it was maybe 500 pages shorter I probably would have hated it way lesstl;dr it starts with in memory of kurt vonnegut and does not get