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BLEAKWARRIOR by Alistair Rennie
Review for BleakWarrior by Alistair Rennie
BleakWarrior by Alistair Rennie is often described as a “weird, debauched, sword and sorcery novel.” But in truth, it’s really hard to fully describe and categorize this unique and genius vision. Its undeniable originality and unabashed extreme edge makes it a truly standalone work of fiction. Below, I will post the description and then my thoughts on the novel.
BLEAKWARRIOR
For eons, the…
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I've read a lot of books this year, and actually managed to finish a fair few too. Not as many as I would've liked, but hey ho, I'm still happy. Off the top of my head (not including short stories), this year I've finished:
The Great Book of King Arthur by John Matthews
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (first time I read the book as an adult and it's lost none of its charm)
The High Book of the Grail translated by Nigel Bryant
Dark Sleeper by Jeffrey E. Barlough
Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles by Patricia Terry and Samuel N. Rosenberg
The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien
Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
Dracula by Bram Stoker (via Dracula Daily)
The Plantagenets by Dan Jones
BleakWarrior by Alistair Rennie (Got this one for Christmas and finished it on Friday!)
There's likely more that I've forgotten now, but all in all, not too bad for someone who used to very rarely finish books. Yes, I did enjoy these books, thankfully.
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Can you fill this out without lying?
I probably can; this one seems innocuous enough. Tagged by @thepsychedelicdoomtao.
1. What was the last thing you put in your mouth?
Water.
2. Where was your blog picture taken?
From Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy, you onion.
3. Worst pain you’ve experienced?
Probably filling out these bloody quizzes. I’m not interesting enough to merit study.
4. How many times have you been married?
One.
5. How late did you stay up last night?
Past midnight, although I wasn’t precisely keeping track.
6. If you could move somewhere else, where would it be?
In a cave out in the middle of nowhere, where I can scream until my throat’s raw.
7. Do any of your Tumblr friends live close to you?
Some, I think? I don’t talk to my mutuals much, although I very occasionally talk to @vexedminx. Pretty sure she’s on the other side of the country.
8. When was the last time you cried?
A couple of weeks ago, for acting purposes. It was rad.
9. Who took your profile picture?
No one I know.
10. How many marriage proposals have you had?
One.
11. If you could have any career what would it be?
Writer, I guess? Professional hermit is looking better every day.
12. What was the last book you read?
Currently picking through Alistair Rennie’s BleakWarrior. Last completed Victor LaValle’s Big Machine.
13. If you could talk to anyone now who would it be?
Probably @wildeschilde. As expected, I’m a rank sentimentalist.
14. Are you a good influence?
Maybe?
15. Does pineapple belong on pizza.
No. I may, occasionally, like it, but that doesn’t make it right.
16. You have the remote, what channel would you watch?
I haven’t watched television regularly in over a decade now. Is Comedy Central still funny? Maybe that one, then.
17. Whom do you think will play along?
???
18. Have you graduated from University?
Yes.
19. Your favourite football team?
I don’t have one.
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BleakWarrior
”Dominatrix Kerl died as she had lived, suspended in a slipstream of pain and pleasure at the behest of a fanatical brood of ardent sensualists.”
Sort of a happy ending, then.
Alistair Rennie, "BleakWarrior." Blood Bound Books, 2016, page 112.
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The Hill of False Summits grips the horizon like a clenched fist. The uneven rotundity of its bulk rivals the sky with its overbearing proportions of heather and rock. Its purple cresses rise and fall and rise again through successive depressions of escalating gradient. With each accomplished ridge, no succour is given. Passing showers strike the terrain with the force of whips. The wind skirmishes like a berserker. Squalid prolongations of vegetable and mineral roughness accost the vastness with the diagonal rupture of upward form.
To reach a summit is a rule of ascendancy. But when the summits prove false, so the rule proves false unto itself, and the matter of ascending becomes a self-defeating purpose of invalidating the will to succeed.
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“But my gluttony, as such, is no mere greed, jealously guarded with an indifference towards the plight of others. I make it my aim to share the torments that I hold so well, and to distribute the pain that is my pleasure in life.
There is no atonement for the torments I have suffered, no unravelling the strings of my humiliation, no restraints upon the resources of my protracted grief, no solace but for the pressing need to murder the murderer of my seven dead sons.”
Lord Brawl; BleakWarrior (Alistair Rennie)
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“Bastard Son of Brawl, prepare yourself for the blackness of your extinction. The Dirk lays waste to those who oppose our mission; and, though our mission is unknown to us, we have replaced its absent purpose with decisive aspirations of our own.”
BleakWarrior; BleakWarrior (Alistair Rennie)
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AUTHOR INTERVIEW WITH ALISTAIR RENNIE
AUTHOR INTERVIEW WITH ALISTAIR RENNIE
There are a lot of gifted writers and fantastic storytellers out there in the world of independent literature. You can check the multitude of publishers, especially in the realm of speculative fiction, and you’ll find lots of books worth reading that can leave an impression or inspire your own ideas. But, there are those few authors that seem to really stand out; there are those writers who…
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”The Brain Exchange was frequented by aspiring scientists (many of whom had already failed) who were intent on hiring the services of licensed theoreticians who were also among the most scantily dressed young scholars in the whole of the Quagan.”
*ahem* I’m listening.
Alistair Rennie, "BleakWarrior." Blood Bound Books, 2016, page 153.
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”My emotional positions,” he thought, “are as pig heads over the flame of my madness.”
I’ve been there myself, friend.
Alistair Rennie, "BleakWarrior." Blood Bound Books, 2016, page 152.
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”Come sup at the springs of my deadly paps-my womanly volcanoes-whose chemical stuffs are the basis of our abysmal ruin.”
That’s not a metaphor.
Alistair Rennie, "BleakWarrior." Blood Bound Books, 2016, page 73.
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”An anal ravaging is bad enough at the best of times.”
In case you’re wondering, yes, this is connected to the freezer sperm.
Alistair Rennie, "BleakWarrior." Blood Bound Books, 2016, page 27.
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BleakWarrior
”Whorefrost’s sperm is thick as puss. It is also capable of causing the spread of frostbite within seconds which, when it spreads, causes a slow and insidious destruction of the body, from the inside out, that lasts a matter of minutes or even hours.”
In case you’re wondering, yes, there is more explanatory text. There’s a lot more explanatory text.
Alistair Rennie, "BleakWarrior." Blood Bound Books, 2016, page 26.
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