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Title: The Sugar Frosted Nutsack
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Mark Leyner
Narrator: Mark Leyner
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-26-12
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 37 votes
Genres: Fiction, Humor
Publisher's Summary:
High above the bustling streets of Dubai, in the world's tallest and most luxurious skyscraper, reside the gods and goddesses of the modern world. Since they emerged 14 billion years ago from a bus blaring a tune remarkably similar to the Mister Softee jingle, they've wreaked mischief and havoc on mankind. Unable to control their jealousies, the gods have splintered into several factions, led by the immortal enemies XOXO, Shanice, La Felina, Fast-Cooking Ali, and Mogul Magoo. Ike Karton, an unemployed butcher from New Jersey, is their current obsession.
Ritualistically recited by a cast of drug-addled bards, The Sugar Frosted Nustack is Ike's epic story. A raucous tale of gods and men confronting lust, ambition, death, and the eternal verities, it is a wildly fun, wickedly fast gambol through the unmapped corridors of the imagination.
Members Reviews:
Amazing
If you could sum up The Sugar Frosted Nutsack in three words, what would they be?
Vandalizing the denouement.
Who was your favorite character and why?
My favorite character is Ike Karton because he is the "Warlord of his Stoop", attuned to the gods, hurtling toward his fate with so much more than grim resolve. He's a doomed, compulsively hermeneutic, unemployed, anarcho-primitivist gym-rat, and that's just straight sexy.
What does Mark Leyner bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?
The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is an epic, endlessly recited by blind, drug-addled, vagrant bards. Hearing Mark Leyner recite it is the next best thing to attending an actual live performance.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Absolutely. Bring some orange soda.
Any additional comments?
This is not a normal book. It's a staggeringly recursive construction of text, sub-text and meta-text. It may seem random or overly whimsical on the surface, but it contains deep structure and integrity. It's the funniest book I've read (or heard) in years.
Loved IT!
Any additional comments?
Leyner is HILARIOUS! The people driving next to me at 6AM must have thought I was crazy as I laughed out loud at this book.
His narration was very very good and the book was his best since Et Tu Babe.
TSFN, drug addled masterpiece of visionary fiction
Would you listen to The Sugar Frosted Nutsack again? Why?
Yes, I probably will listen to this work again. This piece ranks with Vonnegut's or Tom Robbin's best works as a stunning piece of absurdist fiction.
Who was your favorite character and why?
For me, my favorite character is a toss up between Ike, the protagonist, and XOXO the God of head injury and forgetfulness. Ike throws himself relentlessly to his fate as XOXO tries to sabotage the story. (No kidding.)
Which character as performed by Mark Leyner was your favorite?
I really doubt that anyone but the author could have done this justice.
If you could rename The Sugar Frosted Nutsack, what would you call it?
The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamlined Nutsack
Any additional comments?
I really appreciate this works way of creating a story and at the same time creating a commentary on the story. It's a bit like having a novel interleaved with a dry academic article about the novel.
