lower in quality or value.
Bought and read Warren Ellis' Crooked Little Vein.
It doesn't quite live up to its opening line. Nothing would live up to that. Nothing with plot, anyway. Nothing you could read and parse more than a page at a time. But it's pretty damned good. The thing basically opens with the main character attending the "only genuine and authentic Godzilla Bukkake night in America" and goes from there. (Same page: "The door guy entered the room, carrying cages of thirsty-looking monitor lizards, long tongues flickering.") It's obscene, gleeful -- and most of it is actually stuff that is familiar to us depraved denizens of the intertron. I actually find that kind of scary.
If you want to sample that atmosphere, the best place I know to start is with Ellis' The Dinner of Cathcart Zen.
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