The Pickle Index, by Eli Horowitz
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Knife throwers. Ominous fortresses. Angry mimes. Snack festivals. Morose contortionists. Guillotines. Smiling journalists. Lonely young women. Lingering hope. Incompetence. Desperation. Funny disguises.Plus two hardcover books in a gold-encrusted slipcase, twenty full-color illustrations, and an unprecedented feat of interactive book design.A hapless circus troupe tours the countryside of a downtrodden nation, trying to earn a living the best way they know — even though their best isn't very good at all: a morose contortionist, a strongman who'd rather be miming, a lion tamer paired with an elderly dog, etc. Toward the end of a typically glum performance, Zloty Kornblatt, the troupe's ringmaster, accidentally blunders into a mockery of the nation's glorious leader. He doesn't even know why the sparse crowd is laughing, but they are — and so he continues with the inadvertent satire, ending the show on a rare triumphant note.The confused ringmaster is quickly captured, thrown into prison, and sentenced to death. The troupe must design an intricate prison-break built around their unique (and possibly useless) skills. Hijinks ensue, recounted with deadpan humor and flickering hope by Flora Bialy, Zloty’s understudy and our shy narrator.
The Pickle Index, by Eli Horowitz- Amazon Sales Rank: #870358 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 2
- Dimensions: 7.90" h x 1.30" w x 5.90" l, 1.46 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 248 pages
Review "The Pickle Index is full of life and everything else — it's rowdy and sweaty and heartbreaking, and by heartbreaking I mean funny, and by funny I mean laugh-until-you're-exhausted-and-leaking-and-hungry. I've tasted the tedfruits and the breadbread, the Basement Gherks and the Kelp Rompers and the wall of ham. Meet me in Outer Spagg — I'm never coming back."—Miranda July“The Pickle Index is a delight — the narration is laugh-out-loud funny. … A fun, strange romp through (last one, promise) an absurdly cured world.”—NPR“A beautifully illustrated, hardcover set of two volumes … Proves that challenging, interactive, multi-platform storytelling can be compelling, immersive, and fun.”—Wired“One of the rarest and most exciting things that can happen in publishing: an original story, created with and for the multiple formats it lives in. … The Pickle Index shows us a path forward.”—The Bookseller“A Roald Dahl-via-Kafka-esque fable for the digital age.”—Slate“The Pickle Index is fun in the way Roald Dahl is fun — vinegary and sharp — and deliciously so for those with the right kind of palate. … A wildly entertaining romp.”—Vulpus Libres“Filled with laugh-out-loud lines and reminiscent of the heartbreakingly hilarious dystopias of George Saunders.”—Bookpage“You know when you find a book that feels original and fresh and weird in just the right way? The Pickle Index is such a book. Eli Horowitz has created a carnival world a little like that amazing place Katherine Dunn took us in Geek Love. But this book has more laughs. It’s a crazy caper!"—Arthur Bradford“The Pickle Index ushers in a new era of interactive books.”—Eye on Design"This novel takes absurdity to new heights."—BooklistPRAISE FOR THE SILENT HISTORY"Exceptionally rich and frequently moving." — Guardian (UK)"A rare breath of excitement in a confused industry." — Forbes"A landmark project." — Los Angeles Times
About the Author Eli Horowitz is the coauthor of The Silent History, a digital novel; The Clock Without a Face, a treasure-hunt mystery; and Everything You Know Is Pong, an illustrated cultural history of table tennis. Previously, he was the managing editor and then publisher of McSweeney’s; his design work has been honored by I.D., Print, and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He lives in Northern California.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Good fun and a unique format makes this a highly enjoyable read By Ethan Before I begin, I must state that I received this book in a giveaway from the publisher through Goodreads in exchange for a fair review."'Ladies and gentlemen,' I began, 'do we have a show for you tonight.' The question sounded less rhetorical than I intended."Going into this I had no idea what to expect. News sources said things about apps and 3D printing and circus members, none of which made much sense in context. Thus I was very pleasantly surprised by what the book itself turned out to be.Available as both an app that will supply parts of the story over a real-time 10 days or in standard papery book form, The Pickle Index is a witty and fun novel that sits somewhere between 1984, Idiocracy, Lemony Snicket, and Monty Python, and stars a failing circus troupe comprised of ragtag ne'er-do-wells with typical and fantastic circusy abilities.The story is principally told through the viewpoint of two characters; Hank Hamper, a love-struck journalist who has it out for our intrepid troupe and tells his sections in the form of first-person news reports, and Flora Bialy, a shy circus runaway who tells her story and the ongoing story of the troupe by way of the Pickle Index. The Pickle Index is a sort of device which prints out recipes sent from other citizens. Every household must send out a recipe for pickles or pickled-goods, whether original or forwarded on, each night or face severe punishment. This society is absurd and utterly wonderful.Our narrator, Flora, finds this just as silly as you and sends her recipes out each night. Her titles are fab (Cuke-Fudge Dippin' Stix and Scouse Wallies to name just two) and the instructions to make the recipe are the method in which the story is told.The entire books is chuckle-worthy, both in its absurdity and the wordplay the author utilizes, and the way the ending plays out truly must be seen to be believed. God bless Martin Van Buren.Very solid read that plays with the way a story can be told and I look forward to exploring Horowitz' bibliography further.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Sharp, sweet, mad, funny By Catherine Murphy Before I begin, here’s a few things you need to know about Eli Horowitz.◾Eli Horowitz is a self-taught carpenter◾Eli Horowitz founded a publishing company◾Eli Horowitz wants to change the way we readYou need to know these things because if you come to The Pickle Index expecting a book, like any other book, then you might walk away again, perplexed. Horowitz does not do books like any other books. Horowitz lives in a cabin in the woods with a dumb waiter next to his loft bed, so he can haul his TBR pile up to his sleeping place each night. Horowitz tried to live without language, so he could see what that was like and later captured something of that experience in The Silent History the book he co-wrote before The Pickle Index. The Silent History began life as an app, through which subscribers could access a series of testimonies and The Pickle Index also takes the form of an app (but one which I can’t explore because it’s only available for iPhone and iPad), but is also immediately available as a two volume hardcover edition, with beautiful illustrations by Ian Huebert, and a single volume paperback.What’s the point of all this? Experimentation, I guess and boundary breaking and also something else which I would tentatively label fun, because The Pickle Index is fun in the way Roald Dahl is fun – vinegary and sharp – and deliciously so for those with the right kind of palate. The story hinges on the adventures of what would probably be the world’s worst circus troupe, were it unfortunate enough to actually exist. Enmired in the outer reaches of an imaginary, Iron Curtainish state where the population must, by law, receive a recipe for fermented goods each day (this is The Pickle Index, in case you wondered), this bunch of carnies is thrown into chaos by the arrest and incarceration of their leader, Zloty Kornblatt.Their attempt to rescue Zloty before his execution by means of one of a choice of machines of Heath Robinsonian cruelty (my favourite is the Wall of Bees & Wallabies), forms the first part of the narrative. The second consists of a series of articles from The Daily Scrutinizer, the capital city’s official organ, which expand on the peculiar customs and habits of this most peculiar place. If I say that The Pickle Index contains a starring role for a dog named after the 8th US President and that Madame J, Head of the Pickle State, carries with her at all times her pet, a Javanese octopus called Simeon, that should give you some idea of the mad inventiveness of the story.But inventiveness is not a rare quality in literature, because inventing stuff is what writers do and in that respect, The Pickle Index while fun, can’t lay claim to anything remarkable. What about that third point in my list about Horowitz above? What about changing the way we read? This is where the app comes in and possibly the split into two narratives, but despite all that I read the book in the same way I read any other book, from start to finish, with a pause for dinner and The Apprentice, because reading is an activity so ancient that even Eli Horowitz and his collaborator on this project Russell Quinn, won’t change that, not easily at least.That said, there is a way in which The Pickle Index can lay claim to a shift in attitudes, though perhaps not one as seismic. Read it with current events in mind, and you might get a hint of extra sharpness. Satire isn’t popular in the US, but The Pickle Index is a satire, though one of a tangential and subtle sort. Only time will tell if this heralds a new era of American conscious-raising. I kind of hope it does.In the meantime, enjoy The Pickle Index for what it is – a wildly entertaining romp. Go forth! Read! And in the true spirit of The Pickle Index may I express the hope that your children will make responsible decisions about their reproductive organs and use them to create a new generation of dedicated professionals.Review first published on Vulpes Libris https://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2015/11/26/the-pickle-index
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