Garbage Head

by Christopher Willard and TurtleMe

Imagine Douglas Coupland writing a Kurt Vonnegut novel in hypertext. The outcome: Garbage Head, a daring postmodern novel written almost entirely in sentence-length paragraphs which examines the promiscuity of telecommunication devices and the vicarious thrills of celebrity culture. The reader surfs through the text gathering points of view and sound bites from disparate locales in real time and, just as in the today's world of endless stimuli,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550652060
• ISBN13: 9781550652062
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Vehicule Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A brilliant reflection of modern dystopia

A brilliant book describing the dystopia of our times. The other reviews said this book should be made into a movie and I agree. Read it, it will change the way you see the world.

The not-so-distant future

"Garbage Head." How better could Willard have described us? If Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" had been a work of fiction, this would be it. Excess stimuli and convenience have coaxed the life out of middle America and replaced it with celebrity. Most believe they are happy but it's obvious they're merely numb. Garbage Head has a talent that makes him famous and fame is everything in his world. Perhaps Garbage Head's true gift and true nature are revealed by what he does next.

Action - Take one!!

Garbage Head reads like a movie. I kept looking over my shoulder to see if the cameras were rolling. Its quick, stabbing style is perfect for today's short attention span and multi-tasking society. Humm....I wonder who will be play Garbage Head.

Technology

When my husband and I were visiting in Canada this past summer we picked up a copy of Garbage Head by Christopher Willard. Both of us have read it and love it! It's novel that explores the effects of technology in our world today. It points out in wonderful satire and double speak, how we have allowed our lives to be taken over by technology in our daily living. Everything from computers, palm pilots, cell phones, and news bytes at the bottom of our TV,s define more and more of our thoughts and infiltrate our conversations. We are becoming a nation who let the media think and feel for us by repeating and peating what media says.We found ourselves 2questioning why are we willing to buy the media interpretation for our lives. This book became available in the USA in September 05 . We definately expect it to take off and help us to realize that life is a deeper experience than sound bytes and up to the minute messaging. Either way David Davidavich says, " The ability to conceive false ideas is one of humankinds greatest truths. The ability to believe in false ideas is one of our greatest truths or it is one of our greatest fallicies. Either way David believes in Garbage Head and so do we!

Read Garbage Head before they make it into a movie

Yes, the story is a LOT of fun. The wordplay is amazing to see on the page as it mimicks eTechnology. Garbage Head is a visual and literary feast for the eyes!