Review: You Only Need One Kidney

You Only Need One Kidney, so I Removed One of Mine and Made It Into My Butler; Also, My House Is Haunted by the Ghost of Blockbuster Video by Douglas Hackle
My rating: 4 of 5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The story went that if ya repeated the words ‘Blockbuster Video’ in front of a mirror a certain number of times, the ghost of Blockbuster Video would appear and murder you!

-- Douglas Hackle, You Only Need One Kidney,...

You Only Need One Kidney,... by Douglas Hackle is...

Strange. Ridiculous. Absurd. Odd. Funny. Gross. Weird. Profane. Bonkers. 
But I kept reading. 

This is NOT your typical horror story. Or your typical ghost story. Or your typical... well, anything.  It's not normal by any stretch of the imagination.  The main character, Tim Carmichael-Wellingtonshire, wants nothing more in life than to recreate himself in the likeness and talent of the banjo playing hillbilly boy from the 1972 movie, Deliverance. Believe it or not, that could well be the least bizarre aspect of this story. 

It's satiric. It's insane. It's puzzling. And that's just the first two chapters...

You can't open this book saying to yourself, "It sounds like horror so I'm gonna give it a go." But if you're looking to read something that will make you laugh... and cringe... and shake your head hard enough to scramble your brains... AND cause you to say, "what the $&*&$ did I just read?", then this just might be for you. 

Strange. Ridiculous. Absurd. Odd. Funny. Gross. Weird. Profane. Bonkers.
But I kept reading.