It's the Zombie apoclypse, brought about by a tropical disease, and only Dick Shooter and Bunny Hole, porn stars extraordinaire have the skills to survive it. Unfortunately, Dick is getting stiffer as the zombie virus spreads through his body, and he has to find some way of fighting back his urge to kill.
This book has got two really neat ideas. The first is the slowly dying protagonist, and the extreme measures he goes to in an attempt to keep himself alive. It could make from really interesting character development. The second idea is the way the zombie virus throws people into repetitive habits, acting out their obsessions as they slowly fall to bits. Could have given us some slow declines in the various cast members that had an impact on their ability to survive.
However, what this book does with those ideas is mostly dick jokes. Yes, his name is Dick. Yes, if you happen to mention his penis (which is plot-relevant enough to make the list of main characters), there is the inevitable "yes, that's my name joke". I eventually stopped counting how often it came up. If Dick was doing this in some knowing manner to gain a bit of cheap laughter, that'd be better. Instead, he's an idiot. I don't remember the last time I disliked a main character this much.
Though Bunny is not much better, being a shallowly written sex obsessed sex maniac, who wants nothing more than to take full advantage of the ever-present phallus. I can't decide if she's meant to be a parody or not.
It's intentionally gross-out, and that isn't necessarily a bad thing. Some of the scenes could be impressively horrific with a defter hand. Giving in to your obsessions has a nice reminiscence of Se7en, such as the fellow determined to constantly eat, but it's written in such a weirdly casual style that it loses all power.
The ending of the book sets up a sequel. I will not be reading it.
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