Favourite moments/stories from South of No North? (1 Viewer)

[HiddenFormula]

I finished this yesterday for the first time. Great! For me the stongest stories were: All the Assholes in the World and Mine, The Devil was Hot, A Couple of Winos, The Way the Dead Love, Dr Nazi and Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts. Typically a fucked up mixture of the disturbing, dirty, sad and laugh out loud funny- mainly the latter.

Anyway off the top of my head the random little parts that made me crack up:

-When he's in the closet jacking off at the reflection of his legs with his mother's high heels. (Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts)
-Any scene involving the 'yellow piss-bird'. i.e. the old man in the hospital he describes as a "big fat bird dipped in urine and sundried." (All the Assholes in the World and Mine) I also liked how he cuts back and forth from the Catholic prayer book near the end. Genius!
-The Doctor in Dr.Nazi.
-How the Devil says "My Son.." in every sentence. (The Devil Was Hot)
-When they are going to mug a rich fat guy with the baseball bat...instead Chinaski get's it round the head. (The Way the Dead Love)

Oh, there's a lot more. I really enjoyed that alot, particularly once it got further into the book.

 

[Bill Sikes]

My absolute favorite short story is where he gets the job unloading butchered beef cow. He doesn't last but half a shift. His boots are two size smaller slipping and sliding on the blood and slime... Stardust Kid being defeated in the school yard...or something? I am not sure though if it's from the same book?

 

[roni]

[...] the job unloading butchered beef cow. [...] I am not sure though if it's from the same book?

I think that appeared first in the little piece 'Cofessions of a man insane enough to live with beasts' later to be included in 'South'. But it's also a story in 'Erections'.


From 'South' I really loved:
- You and your beer
- Politics
- A Man
- Class
- You can't write a love story
- This is what killed Dylan Thomas
- The way the Dead love
- All the Assholes ...