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Title	:	The Four Fingers of Death
Author	:	Rick Moody
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 725 pages
Published	:	July 28th 2010 by Little, Brown and Company (first published July 8th 2010)
Categories	:	Fiction. Science Fiction. Literary Fiction

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Montese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose rare collection of baseball cards won't sustain him, financially or emotionally, through the grave illness of his wife. Luckily, he swindles himself a job churning out a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror classic, "The Crawling Hand." Crandall tells therein of the United States, in a bid to regain global eminence, launching at last its doomed manned mission to the desolation of Mars. Three space pods with nine Americans on board travel three months, expecting to spend three years as the planet's first colonists. When a secret mission to retrieve a flesh-eating bacterium for use in bio-warfare is uncovered, mayhem ensues.

Only a lonely human arm (missing its middle finger) returns to earth, crash-landing in the vast Sonoran Desert of Arizona. The arm may hold the secret to reanimation or it may simply be an infectious killing machine. In the ensuing days, it crawls through the heartbroken wasteland of a civilization at its breaking point, economically and culturally--a dystopia of lowlife, emigration from America, and laughable lifestyle alternatives.

The Four Fingers of Death is a stunningly inventive, sometimes hilarious, monumental novel. It will delight admirers of comic masterpieces like Slaughterhouse-Five, The Crying of Lot 49, and Catch-22.

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ISBN:	0316118915 (ISBN13: 9780316118910)
Edition Language:	English

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A tale of two books. The story of the Mars mission is the best part of the novel. The rest is too distant and we can't find a character to help us navigate the cavalcade of words and images from Moody. Line by line it's great. As a whole it cannot hold its center.

AUTHOR WRITES ENTIRE NEW BOOK OVERNIGHT, SAYS HE DOESN'T NEED EDITORSAuthor Rick Moody wrote more than 725 pages last night, completing his novel one hour before his last deadline this morning. Moody heralded the work as a victory for procrastinators everywhere.This has been a really long time coming, said Moody. Im so glad I could eventually get around to meeting my publishers deadline. I totally forgot that was supposed to hit the presses today, so I paused Rock Band, just knocked back about

I may not finish this book. It's messy. My love of sprawl is well documented, but this needs editing. The really nasty sentences ('there was a third option, in addition to the other two I've mentioned') are too frequent, and there are some longish sections- an email exchange between the novel's novel's blogger/narrator (yes, really) and his daughter comes to mind, as does the space-sex scene - which are so devoid of anything I want from a book I don't even know what to write here. The most

Ive seen in negative reviews for this book that there are complaints of pointless dialogs and tangents. But I realized early on in Book Two that the author is treating each character and aspect of the story as its own little novel. So from the homeless guy who you know is going to be dead in mere seconds because he just disrupted the arms resting place, to the retarded boy who will laughingly witness his loving brothers brutal death, to the history of the founding of a strange and seemingly

4.5/5Longer review to come, but I must say I really enjoyed this book. More than most, judging by the ratings here on GoodReads. It's moving and funny and odd and exquisitely written. Hell....I may even love this book.First Part of Longer Review 2/10/15Jed Richards seems earnest and forthright and overall a good guy. That's what makes part 2 of this book so devastating as it tracks the mission to Mars, and ultimately the descent into madness by our narrator Col. Richards. Moody, writing as

Normally I'm a big fan of Rick Moody's writing, but The Four Fingers of Death was kind of disappointing.It was hardly original, and its strange attempt at being funny ended up nothing but a mess of crass humor, pop culture and perpetually boring characters. Normally Rick Moody's novels focus more on nostalgia, not on trendy science fiction, and I think that this book was nothing but an attempt to cash in on the current dystopian craze.

An interesting premise for a book--the novelization of the schlock sci-fi classic "The Crawling Hand"--but The Four Fingers of Death fails to deliver. For one thing, it's too long. 700 pages of bleak landscapes and characters being afflicted with space madness and whatnot. I'm not sure if the long-winded prose is supposed to be a joke or not. The character writing the novelization (the book is a actually a novel within a novel) comes across a someone who doesn't have much talent, so I'm not sure