Polymer AUTHOR Caleb Wilson By Caleb Wilson
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You ve seen monster hunts before You ve watched as a guy with throwing axes and ninja stars ascends stairs to fight a big furry werewolf with tentacles or a floating head of indeterminate origin You ve seen hunters But you ve never seen Polymer Polymer s got style Polymer s got sex appeal Polymer s got panache And you lucky reader get to join us right behind the glass in Sickleburg Castle where the battle of the century is about to commence Who is the man behind the music the monsters the guts the gore and the glory Get ready for an event like no other Polymer AUTHOR Caleb WilsonPolymer is a surprisingly fun incredibly surreal read about one man s musical journey to slay mythical monsters It s told in first person plural from the POV of Polymer s fans It s a quick adventure story under 100 pages full of constant insanity This book will make you a fan of Polymer the hero you never knew you needed English POLYMER is one of the most unique books I have read in a minute Wilson weaves a surreal tale of monster hunting and superstardom taking place in a Castlevania esque world filled with heroes hunters and the fans that follow them religiously Polymer whose effortless enigmatic cool is as enviable as it is unattainable is the greatest of these With a unique synth driven story and sword sharp sentences Wilson makes certain the reader is drawn into the zeitgeist as well If you re like me you ll push yourself to the front of the crowd of Polymer s megafans just to make sure you see what happens next. Polymer clay I highly recommend POLYMER to fans of bizarro experimental fictions and the enigmatic existences of the celebrities we publicly adore English I totally meant to review this when I read it and promptly forgot. Polymer ark Polymer is fantastic deftly written bizarro fiction with a heart that beats echoes of Castlevania Purple Rain and spooky synth sounds It s easily in my Top 5 New Bizarro Author Series Books of all time Highly recommended for its unusual atmosphere experimental writing told from the perspective of an audience and downright fun story English Castlevania by way of Repo the Genetic Opera by way of Phantom of the Paradise with liberal helpings of anime aesthetics cosplay culture and social commentary all mixed together with a pounding synth beat that will shred your brain and rebuild it into something newer something better something ready to face whatever lies at the heart of Sickleburg and the extradimensional castle that hovers next door To say that Caleb Wilson s Polymer is a fun propulsive read is to both engage in understatement and do this thin volume a grave injustice Because while it is all those things it s also something Not a book beholden to the structure of video games or rock operas but also a piece of classically weird fiction endlessly inventive stylishly subversive and filled with perfect turns of phrase It may be an inescapably contemporary fable but it s also written with all the wit and invention of the best cosmic horrors of Jean Ray or William Hope Hodgson It s not often that a book like Polymer comes along but when it does you want to shout it from the rooftops. Polymer science Literally my only complaint is that the copy I read had a few typographical errors than I would generally prefer to see which occasionally plucked me out of the otherwise entirely engrossing story English For a variety of reasons the idea of experimental Bizarro fiction doesn t necessarily make me think of something particularly fun or satisfying to read But it kinda seems like it should shouldn t it Well Polymer is the kind of riotously inventive uninhibited bundle of constant entertainment that actually delivers on all that promise It s unapologetically hammy built on a masterful command of genre pastiche that never veers into overt winking or rests on the laurels of its references And it all works because of the meta fictional Procrustean lens of the collective protagonist Quite the opposite of what I might have feared the narrative gimmick of telling the story from the perspective of all of polymers fans at once provides not an absence of motivation but an endless supply of it I m not sure this gimmick would work over a longer story but for a novella it s perfect The whole thing feels very postmodern of course but than that very contemporary If the base DNA of Polymer s world is Bloodborne seeing the story from this point of view is like a Twitch stream It s actually kind of a stroke of genius considering how inimical the Soulsborne games are to adaptation in first person storytelling So instead of putting us in the hunter s shoes creating dramatic justification for the endless slog of monster hunting polymer explores the interesting drama of seeing that from a layer removed As Polymer s fans we see the story as lore hunters and bystanders and overzealous vicarious thrill seekers The collective protagonist is a goopy multifaceted thing driven by id again just like the comments in a Twitch stream The way it casually abandons parts of itself to death and danger and then continues on oblivious reminds me of the blob thing from Inside Moreover it has the quality of a sports broadcast a camera capable of jumping around from angle to angle fight to home life to puff piece that modulates tone and knowledge as needed to craft a compelling experience if not a strong drama per se from the incommunicable grind of gamified hunting. Polymer 80 The experience of reading Polymer is thus surreal intoxicating familiar but disorienting If the formula is familiar the palate it is painted with is entirely unique I often find books that rely heavily on describing experiences best suited to other media simply fail And I can t say the glam rock synth magic really landed for me it is so clearly something I would enjoy seeing actually executed with sound and video but I can t do it justice in my head or at least the effort distracts me from the story All of the rest of the flavor is awesome Potatomania the glass fenced vents between worlds the insane entertainment culture of Sickleburg in general the performative violence of Lord Abisma and the wild aesthetic of the cosmic horror monsters which sits somewhere between the goofy chimaeras of Lovecraft the colorful goop of the Candy Kingdom and a vaporwave music video In general I think of myself preferring horror aesthetics that are a bit restrained but the juxtaposition of elements in these monsters somehow feel both indulgent and creatively liberating and all the disquieting for their tangible almost edible plastic sugar and sweetmeat textures. Polymer 80 If there s anything lacking here it s just that the story really does have the feel of a music video Far interested in tone and visuals and climax than anything else what drama there is takes place on a stage melodramatic easily readable digested secondhand Similarly history and world building are relatively shallow and clearly feel like they stop existing shortly after the elements the book presents That all makes sense for Polymer it s clearly the extent of the books ambition and it delivers on it My complete satisfaction I guess I m just thinking now about how well this storytelling technique might hold up over a longer story I suppose in essence the problem is that the fandom premise centers a story on the hunter himself who would traditionally be little than the transparent lens through which you viewed a systemic story Perhaps an alternative could work just as well but the advantage of the fandom is that it implies an instant potent emotional investment that might be difficult to justify otherwise English Not just weird for weird s sake but formally and narratively inventive at every turn Also just really really funny English I was blown away by this book It s the kind of book I read and think this thing is tailored specifically to my reading tastes Because it does It s an often surreal occasionally absurd epic fantasy which inspires awe and dread through the fantastic descriptions of synth waves aural weapons which cut through the air and attack all sorts of haunting monsters And if you were to throw around descriptions like surrealism and sound weapons and strange and haunting monsters before I read Polymer I d probably say it sounded like you were talking about my bizarro sci fi novella Girl in the Glass Planet And I think this highlights a fantastic point as to why bizarro is such a fascinating and pleasurable genre to read and write in While many books in general have a lot of themes and sometimes a lot of plots in common bizarro has a lot less books sharing those creative similarities and the ones that do are often remarkably different. Polymerase pronunciation Polymer and Glass Planet are two completely different stories as soon as you start digging into them but I nevertheless found myself seeing those things mentioned above which drew me to write my book in the first place and I loved how Caleb Wilson took them in a different direction medieval Castlevania esque and on top of all that the way he framed the story and described so many elements of the narrative and how the plot played out it was just beautiful such a wonderful sight to behold Polymer is a gripping and sensational read it delivered all the great things I relish in a good book holding specific interests to my own reading tastes If you read Girl in the Glass Planet and you enjoyed it you re going to love Polymer Wilson can do anything I can do and he can do it better Another fantastic read in the New Bizarro Author Series English Really exciting interesting haunting WEIRD I absolutely loved the communal narration the present tense the bizarrely human ways these people react as a group to the insane splintering of their world The hero worship almost like a reality tv star Polymer go into action It even has a tabloid reporter who explains Polymer s unseen adventures through the use of a crystal ball Sometimes they get a first hand look at the action and often members of the us POV get killed It s crazy fun and I highly recommend it English POTATO MANIA FOREVER English 
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Feels so real that I m probably guilty of it often than I even admit to myself