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| Watch Out | 
 enlarge | Author: Joseph Suglia
Publisher: FLF Press
Category: Book
This item is no longer available
Avg. Customer Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 233127
Media: Perfect Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 210
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 1891855778
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781891855771
ASIN: 1891855778
Publication Date: September 4, 2006
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 What is self? March 19, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
In essence, Watch Out philosophizes the greatest mystery in the universe: selfhood.
It is the author's confidence in stating that this is the most important work ever written that compelled me to read it. While I am not entirely inclined to agree, I definitely do not disagree. I am in a neutral state, still digesting the extreme depth of the novel.
Reader beware. It is grotesque and violent to the extreme. If I had not read Cows (which has many parallels) I would not have been able to stomach much of the book. But it is through this complex and grotesque delving into the psyche that really makes us connect to the question, what is self?
Throughout the book I found myself bending the corners of pages for later examination.
"There is a place in the system for those who resist the system."
"He who loves, loves in order to have a thing to love. The person whom he loves becomes like a prosthetic appendage, an organ without which he cannot live..."
"When a woman whom you desire inflicts pain on you, your passion for her intensifies. Every woman knows this. And for this reason, women are painful -- painful because they want to be desired."
In his writing, Joseph creates situations that are profoundly focused on individualism, selfhood, self satisfaction, ethics and morals, human dynamics, desire, and choice. With mind boggling absurdity, you will be constantly thinking about the most important questions that exist.
With intentions of recognition, Jonathan Barrows says "Instead of looking at each other, we are trained to look at the stars." before maliciously torturing and shooting a pop icon to ensure his own fame.
Joseph Suglia and several other authors are emerging with pseudo-genre. This is a philosophical look into humanity intensely presented within a fictional horror, satire, and pornographic context.
I like to call this, reading for the brave.
Aptly Titled! March 2, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Watch Out is an apt title for this book. I ordered it
after reading some of the authors other works
(online). I looked at the cover with its overlying
hands graphic, glanced at the back and got a glimpse
into the character, Jonathan Barrows. It appears he is
in love with himself,vanity times a million. How
silly, but it could be interesting for a while.
I started reading about the "protagonist's"
misadventures, meanwhile always keeping him in at an
arms-length definition of a silly man with delusions
of grandeur.
As I kept reading, something peculiar happened. I
started to identify with Mr. Barrows. People walking
about my city seemed smaller, more meaningless in
their droning days. Sitting on the bus actually became
quite a challenge as I had become sensitive to other
human presence. The smell of them. Not a stench in the
accepted definition, but the smell of skin, hair,
breath paired with the attempts to mask it with
deodorants, fragrant shampoos and perfumes. It
culminated in something invading to my persona. A mere
touch of someone sitting too close, with a thigh, hip
shoulder making contact with me made me want to jump
up and cast them into the aisle. But I kept reading.
Further misadventures, Mr. Barrows violated. The mere
fantastic aspect of it made it easy to be viewed
objectively, pure fiction of course. Then with a
flashback and flashforward Jonathan Burrows kills. He
murders insidiously. He enjoys it as an extension of
himself.
I sat back for a moment. I cannot relate to him now.
He was ridiculous at first and I had become so, but I
could never be more. So I let go of Mr. Burrows
perceptions and finished the novel. A good read
indeed, but for the even-slightly impressionable, for
the love of God, Watch Out.
 A must read February 27, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
A brilliant read, couldn't put down the book, with a megalomaniac hero you love to hate. Funny in a noirish, almost Jim Thompson manner.
Seduced. February 26, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
WATCH OUT is posed at the forefront of ill-humanity and takes you with it. "Humanity", ironically and in the opinion of myself, is a term that was only created when our drive to follow our instincts became too absurd. We are a proper and civil society, not animals......right? It is "appropriate" to have inappropriate thoughts as long as we don't act on them, correct?
There are no timeless cliches or token catch phrases inserted that would invite a reader to feel that he/she can relate to the world that is this book...unless you are comfortable with looking at yourself. This book will make you reconsider how you see yourself.
Page by page is a tidal wave of rationale that we use on a daily basis to psychologically "self-treat" ourselves. The right rear pocket of one's brain that tingles when one is absorbed in their own thoughts. On a subway, standing in line, sitting at a drive-thru waiting to gorge ourselves with the quick and easy; each of us in our own minds feel we are above all of it: the waiting, the compromising, the incessant need to re-check our burger order because, "everyone that works here is a moron"....each of us, in our own right, are a god. Jonathan Barrows is a god.
Everyone is Jonathan Barrows.
The only difference is that he requires the implementation of actions to express his thoughts, the rest of us just sit smugly and proud that we could even formulate the darkest of these thoughts.
Seduction comes quickly in this beautifully versed orchestration of everything dirty and pure, and if you are not careful- if you only focus on the instant gratification that this book will fill your senses with, you will railroad anything that this novel truly is.
Powerful and brilliant! January 6, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
A word to everyone : Read this book, there is nothing that can compare to this, nothing I have ever read has come close to this.
My visualization while reading this book was so amazing, I could not put this book down for a second.
The characters keep you on edge, always wanting to know what is going to happen next.
I found myself relating to the main character Jonathan Barrows in a very intense way, and was spellbound by the ending.
Pure genius is the only way to describe this book, once you start reading it, you will not want to come back to the real world that is yours, you will be so perplexed by the characters that you will want to get inside them, to become them.
This masterpeice is a work that stands on it's own, and I have never read anything that can compare to this.
I recommend anyone that is thinking about reading this artistic relevation, to do so.
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