Invisible Monsters

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So that's what I didn't like, but here is what I did like. Invisible Monsters is a book that's not about the plot. It's really about the characters. None of them are likeable, but that makes them fun to read about. Like me, you will probably wind up not caring about any of them, but they will make you laugh with their outrageous plans and crazy antics. I really could not stand the main character's parents, though. Oh jeez, these parents were like...cliches of idiotic parents that embarrass their children...times 10 thousand. Just wow. Very interesting character study, anyway.

The narrator of the story, Shannon McFarland, is a disfigured former model who goes by multiple pseudonyms, notably Daisy St. Patience and Bubba Joan—identities given to her by Brandy Alexander. The novel opens in medias res on the wedding day of Evie Cottrell, whose house is burning to the ground. Brandy, who has been shot by Evie, asks the narrator to tell her life story. Her memories of her life and her relationship with Brandy are told in a non-linear sequence. Don't get me wrong still a very weird book but highly entertaining. I recommend that you read it carefully and try to remember details even if you don't understand it at the time. The thing is, that movie never ended up making any sense(at least to me)so while read I was concerned it was just going to be this artsy "deep" book left up for interpretation that I wasn't cool enough (or drugged up enough)to understand. The Rhea Sisters—Three male drag queens who Brandy describes as being family. They dote on her and pay for all of her surgeries. DO NOT LOOK THIS UP IN WIKIPEDIA IT GIVES AWAY EVERYTHING I REPEAT DO NOT LOOK IT UP! In fact, don't even read the synopsis, I would just dive right in knowing nothing.****Let’s break the equation down further. Lewin believed that the person and their environment ultimately determined the individual’s behavior, or B= f(LS) = F(P,E). I discussed the environment earlier in the video, but what exactly is the “person?” In the Remix version, it is revealed that Shannon, now going by Daisy St. Patience full-time, has established a cemetery after her parents have died, in which people can buy plots for relatives they disliked with spiteful sayings carved into the tombstones. She also creates a group for disfigured women called " Elephant Women". In the end, she marries an unidentified man.

Death Faked for You: The Rhea sisters fake Shane's death so Brandy Alexander can start her transition. The Charnal God” ( March 1934) by Clark Ashton Smith features the terrible god Aformagon who is invisible. The main character in this book is nameless, and disfigured. She was once a beautiful model, and now feels invisible. She hides under a veil after being called a monster. When she lost her face she saw the true colors of everyone in her life. Her fiance leaves, and her best friend constantly steals her clothes while she's in the hospital. In speech therapy our main character meets Brandy Alexander, and the story unfolds. While in hiding she is acquainted with three drag performers calling themselves “The Rhea Sisters.” The trio is Brandy’s benefactor, sponsoring all of her operations. Soon Brandy Alexander’s true identity is revealed: she turns out to be The Narrator’s brother, Shane, previously believed to have died from AIDS. Brandy/Shane endeavors to look like his sister, The Narrator through gradual surgical procedures. In a bizarre twist of fate, Brandy/Shane is actually trying to find her sister, ignorant of the Narrator’s real identity. The Narrator, who now assumes the identity of Daisy St. Patience leaves with Brandy. Together they travel the country, living by their wits, scamming people by pretending to be interested buyers of expensive houses or by selling/stealing drugs. A Rival From the Grave” ( January 1936) by Seabury Quinn uses a very old Gothic trope of the ex-wife’s ghost that haunts the new wife. The invisible haunter is exorcised by the use of modern x-rays! Art by Harry FermanIncluding the most interesting and important proponents of monster theory and its progenitors, from Sigmund Freud to Julia Kristeva to J. Halberstam, Donna Haraway, Barbara Creed, and Stephen T. Asma—as well as harder-to-find contributions such as Robin Wood’s and Masahiro Mori’s—this is the most extensive and comprehensive collection of scholarship on monsters and monstrosity across disciplines and methods ever to be assembled and will serve as an invaluable resource for students of the uncanny in all its guises. How We Got Here: The book starts with Evie dressed in the remains of a burned dress, having just shot Brandy while the two of them and the narrator are in a burning mansion. And it goes downhill from there. Beyond the Power of Man” ( December 1928) by Paul Ernst has the ghost of a prehistoric man haunting a farm. Ernst does a good job of asking the question, if ghosts are real, why aren’t there any caveman ghosts? Art by Hugh Rankin