Happy Mutant Baby Pills
A Novel

Happy Mutant Baby Pills isn't a novel written for the typical soccer mom who enjoys books written by Patterson and Grisham. These soccer moms wax poetic goo over the books of the month and don't understand a book like this. That's ok because there is an audience for these types of books and odds are......more

Reminiscent of Phalinuck, Stahl keeps the weird-marginal-people needle firmly redlined. Unfortunately he reminds me of Phalinuck's later half-assed cash-in/sell-outs, not his early genius that I so enjoyed. The plot is missing the imagination and details to make it really work. Shock factors are hun......more

Really pleasantly surprised. I checked out this book at the same time as Boxer, Beetle. I laid it aside and started on Ned Bauman's book. It took me forever to grind through the first half of Boxer, Beetle before I decided I wasn't enjoying what I was reading every time I picked the book up. Thereaf......more

This can best best described as a very eye opening read. If that is, you want to open your eyes to find that you have stumbled into the extremely interesting and chemically convoluted lives of a heroine addicted Lloyd, and his equally addicted, exponentially more self destructive, and just plain "nu......more

Well, that was an F^©*ed up read.... I really don't know if I feel queasy about the entire basis of the book or the thoughts behind it. I have to constantly remind myself that the main character/narrator (Lloyd) is a confirmed, and still somewhat in major denial, heroin junkie. That being said, it wa......more