Happy Mutant Baby Pills audiobook

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 it's soccer mom free. Happy Mutant is a dark, comedic novel that doesn't follow the typical cookie cutter format of fiction. Sometimes there are no happy endings and what appears to be a love story is really just one sided infatuation that grows into something bizarre. Mutant is a great novel because of the characters and their addictions and in the case of Nora her slowly evolving insanity and pregnancy. Jerry Stahl has written a novel that will affect you long after you read it. These aren't characters that you can even identify with and hell, you may not even like them that's what makes this novel so good. You aren't supposed to like them or even identify with them. You're merely there as an observer to the chaos as it happens and Stahl is the kind of writer that pulls you into the story and knows that sometimes it's not the characters that often carry a novel but the story itself. The events that unfold will no doubt offend and shock the soccer mom crowd and even hardcore fans of even the most hardcore fiction will be a little taken aback by Stahl's novel. Happy Mutant Baby Pills is a book for those that like their fiction dark and edgy. It's a novel that some would find shocking or maybe even offensive but despite that it's a novel that should be read by everyone. This is one of those destined to be a classic underground novels that people will still be talking about ten years from now. Do yourself a favor and read this book.

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. Thereafter, I quit Boxer, Beetle and picked up Stahl's book of which I had zero preconceptions. I didn't even know what it was about. Had missed its release and had just previously enjoyed some of Stahl's work. And I found it fantastic. It was very strange. Funny. Disgusting. Perverted. And ultimately I enjoyed picking it up every time I was going to read to see what would happen. One of the best books I've read this year.

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 "nutcase" of a girlfriend, Nora. What this book is:1. An honest exploration of chemically induced insanity allowed to roam free.2. Proof that codependency is a bad thing.3. Examples of two very smart people doing very stupid things while using said intelligence to justify said insanity.4. A socially relevant, beautifully written, darkly comical look at one couple's greatest fears and the monsters that helped create them.What this book is not:1. Run of the mill fiction.2. Mindless3. For everyone.If you like your reads a little dark, a little disturbing, a little poignant, and a whole lot WTF?Read this book.Find this review on my blog here:http://www.wtfareyoureading.com/2013/...

Disturbing, but in the best possible way. Not for rom com or mainstream book club fiction fans, definitely 100% Stahl. If you’re squeamish about graphic sex, drug use, adult themes or reality in general, skip it.

One of the weirdest , most disturbing things I have read.

Some of Jerry's best work here. Pure and raw unfiltered truth. Not for those who like to walk through life with blinders on. So many great quotes. Following are some of my favs:- Now it’s a family place. The way homeless shelters have become family fun zones. Without the fun.- Does life turn us into what we are or keep us from ever having to find out? I guess it depends on the life.- Listen. Some people play sports and some people watch them. We grow up, here in America, watching death. Our favorite form of recreation. Death-watching. Violence-savoring.- What goes up, must go sideways.- Future archaeologists (assuming there’s a future) will dig through our detritus and find more pill bottles than books, iPads, or Kindles—life, in America, now being something you treat, not something you live. What are we now, but our symptoms?

Jerry Stahl makes me laugh. All of the pop culture references and side effect speak kept me engaged. I am glad I picked this up.

I loved this book, but it is messed up! Not for everybody.

Review TK.

quite possibly one of the best books I've ever read!!! thank you Jerry Stahl!

A lot of fun to read. Very offbeat and I like it!