Avatar for Brian Talgo

Brian Talgo

rank: 8361

Last week's position: 8335

first registered 06.11.10

last online 13 days ago

report abuse
about me

Dashing ne’r-do-well curmudgeon with a penchant for making others suffer his creative urges. I’m an old and wizened Authonomite, so your wily tricks won’t work on me ... unless you are a charming, witty curmudgeoness — Ah, the chink in my amour.

I come bearing a new manuscript; The Abomination is theoretically complete at 130k but I’m considering a massive re-write. Sooo … criticism is welcome and sought after.

My first book, The Beauregarde Affair, is taking a break from the publishing biz. Will it return? Only The Shadow knows ...

I apparently possess eclectic tastes in regards to the written word (and everything else), but if you have something in the absurd, black humor vein I’ll probably be willing to sink my teeth into it. I read other genre too, of course, but I’m a busy man and my reading time is limited.

Spammers will be wick'd, dipped in wax and used as midnight candles, by the light of which I shall write.

favourite books

The unusual suspects: Pynchon, Brautigan, Heller, T.C. Boyle, Bowles, Orwell, Hamsun, Ballard, O'Brien (Flann), Murakami, DeLillo, Hoban, Tom Robbins, Vonnegut, Bulgakov. Oh yes, and Houellebecq, that little devil. The list is endless and thankfully so.

my websites

http://sonofincog.blogspot.com/     http://beauregardeaffair.wordpress.com/

HarperCollins is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.

my books

The Abomination

Brian M. Talgo

Throw together a jaded hypochondriac ex-pat beeraholic, a Nobel-Prize-hungry mad professor and a computer geek hell-bent on payback and what do you get? An Abomination.


Norway, 1999. At 30-something, ex-yuppie Robert J. Roid Jr. is pretty sure he’s got life figured out, and it’s not a pretty sight. Expatriated in Oslo, a rock ‘n’ roll pub owner with a serious nose for Austrian beer and a nasty case of hypochondria, he plows through women, drink and junk food like a lost weekend with no Monday in sight. Living the carefree bachelor life together with two impossible roommates, one day melts groggily into the next as the rest of the world waits for the millennium to arrive.

But fate clearly has other plans for our reluctant hero; a chance encounter with an overzealous doctor and his sabotaged medical software is about to send Robert off on a wild Yeti-chase, desperately seeking a cure for his newly acquired disease, Homo nivis abominabilitis - the Abominable Snowman Syndrome (ASS).

Hitting the road, he takes just about every wrong turn possible, but ultimately ends up taking a journey inwards, a place he has studiously avoided for years. Along the way true love unexpectedly comes knocking, he serendipitously stumbles over the Holy Grail of pilsner beer and finally uncovers the shocking truth about the Abominable Snowman and his own ASS.

 

my friends

Tonia Marlowe
Tonia Marlowe
last online online
Casimir Greenfield
Casimir Greenfield
last online 52 mins ago
mr.shelley
mr.shelley
last online 7 hours ago
Justin Time
Justin Time
last online 7 hours ago
Jesserella
Jesserella
last online 13 hours ago
open mind
open mind
last online 1 day ago

leave me a message

click here to leave a message

latest

Alastair Miles wrote 53 days ago

Hi, Excuse the unsolicited message. I'm trying to see if there's an....

LCF Quartet wrote 154 days ago

Hi Brian, I was wondering if you could read a chapter or two from my....

Trailer Bride wrote 170 days ago

This demeans us both. Well, mostly me. But what the heck. Now that ....

Maevesleibhin wrote 171 days ago

Dear Brian, If you're like me, you're tickled pink that Zane's wond....

Software wrote 175 days ago

Hello Brian, Hope you are well. Maybe you would like to try out m....

view all

my comments

latest

I wrote 581 days ago

Oh, this is good, Dent. Very, very good and getting better with each page. I think you have something here. It flows across the page with the utmost of ease. I think you’ve found your métier. Thus far I can’t recall having stopped a single time thinking ‘well, this doesn’t work.’ I refuse to use th... view book

I wrote 779 days ago

A true Autho-classic, had me LOLing from page one. That Snarl hasn't made it to the Desk yet (03.04.11) should be considered a literary offence. view book

I wrote 779 days ago

This is it. This is writing. This is the way it’s supposed to be but so seldom is these days. Put yourself in the hands of a master and let yourself be carried away … view book

I wrote 897 days ago

Nice cover, Dude. Looking forward to grtting into this. view book

view all