A past version of myself wants to rate this book with 5 stars. It wants to make references to it, even though most people won't know what Satan Burger is. If I could have read this book during my formative years, I feel it would have been Very Important to me. I would have thought Carlton Mellick III was a kindred spirit, and that I should gouge out one of my eyes just so he had another hole to f- me in, filling me with what I might, at the time, think of as "GLORY." This book would have been tr

A past version of myself wants to rate this book with 5 stars. It wants to make references to it, even though most people won't know what Satan Burger is. If I could have read this book during my formative years, I feel it would have been Very Important to me. I would have thought Carlton Mellick III was a kindred spirit, and that I should gouge out one of my eyes just so he had another hole to f- me in, filling me with what I might, at the time, think of as "GLORY." This book would have been transformational had I known about it 30 or 40 years ago. The me of now would rather give this book a 4 star rating, because I like and enjoyed it, but the impact isn't the same. I think, though, it's a little unfair to take something out of its place in Time and say "well, it's not got the same impact!"



The passage of time doesn't detract from it, in my opinion. Or, it shouldn't. Once, I would have loved it. Now, I like it. I'm going to rate it based on then, though, because if you're someone who likes weirdness, or maybe it's just your Nature, and you didn't really have an outlet for it, once upon a time, or a sense of belonging because the internet wasn't what it is today, I think you could have read this book and felt pretty inspired. And maybe you would have really pursued your own weird style, knowing that someone else had transformed theirs into a book... and it would have been pretty great. Maybe now, you're like "yeah, whatever, I see 'weird' commercials and eat 'bizarre' cereal all the time," but I don't think that attitude does this book any justice.



10 years ago, this book was,or would have been, genius- for some. Now, I think it's still pretty good, but my opinion is skewed, slightly, only by the fact that I've read other Bizarro stories since then, and I've watched a slew of things created by what is probably the Greatest Generation, those who fall between X and Y... and so maybe something that was very fresh for its time is a little less fresh now. Don't let that spoil it for you, though. Satan Burger is worth reading, especially if you're new to the idea that a book can be titled "Satan Burger."

