Funny, by having Lovecraft's name in the title, Ruff secured expanded discussion of other author's racism. Otherwise, this post would have like 12 comments.

Love this book! Shame my copy with a plastic cover vanished among friends

It used to be my second favorite post-New Year hangover movie after "Nekromantik 2".

Sledge apparently wasn't as popular in Russia as in Germany, but there was a certain cult following here in mid 90's, no doubt, largely due to a very adequate voice-over work. I have two seasons on pirate DVD's from circa 2005 with two language options and it's really cool to hear the translators getting the vibe of…

Hilarious portrayal of Russian diplomatic efforts in Germany: terrorism! underage sex trafficking! murder! strip clubs! kidnapping!

The moment I saw that the surgeon is played by a stoic and gloomy husband/Mayor/ex-Marine from "Banshee", I just knew he would rough someone up. And of course he had to shake Quinn the fuck out of his coma…

I loved that a fanatical, Russian-affiliated spy didn't even know how to pronounce "Dacha". Instead she said "Dasha", which is a common female name. Though, maybe there was a hot girl waiting for Alison on the Black Sea?

McGlue is super-awesome.

Yeah, Satin Island is one of those "atmospheric" books, over-intellectualized to death and rather plotless but it hooked me with subliminal suspense. Even the non-ending didn't spoil the effect of something lurking beneath the ruminations.

This. I got a definite Alessandro Baricco vibe (when he's in non-sappy mode ("Lands of Glass").

Yeah, however comic those characters were, I was seriously feeling for them. The 120 Days of Sodom-lite festivities of the aristocrats got me especially worried.

"Warmed-over McCarthy" - that's a pretty good description. But "Blood Meridian" isn't short on long-winded rambling either (especially nature-related).

I particularly liked "Undermajordomo" for its
surreal randomness and perverse fairytailness (plus I have a soft spot
for weak-willed protagonists…) That said, deWitt’s “The Sister Brothers”
was more cohesively constructed.

1. Patrick deWitt - Undermajordomo Minor
2. Alexandra Kleeman - You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
3. Jill Ciment – Act of God
4. Kim Gordon - Girl in a Band
5. Ottessa Moshfegh - Eileen
6. Anakana Schofield – Martin John
7. Tom McCarthy - Satin Island
8. Rupert Thomson - Katherine Carlyle
9. Josh Simmons - Black River
10.…

This is awesomely unexpected!

Also, Brody would use up all the opium from his medical kit. But he wouldn't groan and moan from an ordinary bullet bite like a little girl.

He should perform seppuku to get smear blood, not just cut his palm lamely. That's what true soulmates do for each other.

Right on, she asked "сделали?", which means "have you done? (the job)". Hell, is she an overachiever or what - blowing a plane and going for the protagonist at the same time!

Deadly Acorn Catapult is a perfect name for a B-grade post-hardcore band

I really dig "The Suffering Channel"! Such a vicious, morbidly funny story!
I wish he would left more crude (but still elegant, somehow) satire like that.