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Eric Casas ericdcasascac1 — No matter what his subject, Nicholson Baker’s view of reality is always slightly askew. HOUSE OF HOLES,A Book of Raunch, is no exception as he turns his fictional talents to the world of pornography. Whether a reader should consider it pornography or a send-up of pornography is a good question. It toes the line between them but comes down more on the side of a satirical romp The "House of Holes" is a world unto itself, a pornographic amusement park where any desire can gratified. Nicholson gives a passing nod to ALICE IN WONDERLAND by having people sucked into this world through all of kinds of "holes", one, to give an example, a opening in the back of a laundromat dryer. And there are golf holes, drinking straw holes, holes everywhere when you begin looking for them All kinds of people, male and female end up there, and a series of vignettes follows them around. What various characters find, in this sexual wonderland, are most kinds of imaginable sex acts, many of them involving disembodied sexual parts which gives Baker the opportunity to employ his imagination in describing them, sometimes sounding as though he were writing sexual sci-fi. One chapter has a "pornmaster" machine which is supposed to cleanse the world of bad (cliche'ed, worn-out descriptions) pornography. But the pornmaster operator laments, "the more porn we've sucked out of the world , the larger the monster has grown. This wasn't in our forecasts. We thought there might be small anomalies of spontaneous generation, of course. But this - this is a personification of polymorphousness unlike anything the world of human suck-fuckery has ever known. I used to work as a trainer at Ocean Playground. The squid show there was nothing compared to this." Nicholson provides as much "polymorphousness" as he can think of in 250 pages. In an uncharacteristically semi-serious comment, Nicholson writes "It was interesting and exciting but also a little sad, because all of these penises had no clue what Polly, Donna, and Saucie were all about as women - what they believe in, what their plans were." Baker is not a moralistic writer but almost by accident that may be really what Baker is up to - to describe sex disconnected from any meaningful context, and to describe it in such a exaggerated way that it makes the reader reflect on the sexual grotesqueries of our society, as evidenced by a multi-billion dollar pornography business, one not apt to disappear anytime soon.

Sridhar Devarshi devarshisridhar — This book failed terribly. I kept thinking about just returning it (thank goodness it was from the library!), but one part finally clinched it. The author goes into a detailed list of the "seven high races" of their world and EVERY single name sounds like randomly generated gibberish. I was worried about memorizing all of the countless races when I suddenly stumbled upon the "seven low races." I can handle memorizing many new races and names, but not when they're so blatantly thrown in my face all at once. It just isn't good writing: Show, don't tell. Plus, the book was hugely preachy. I'm fine with Christian fiction (I'm a Christian myself), but I don't like it when a book sounds so strongly like a sermon.