This started out okay, and it's firmly in the same neighbourhood as Chuck Palahniuk and Warren Ellis (though he's pretty much right next door to Chuck). The same nasty underbelly of society characters.

While I enjoyed it for a while, and I completely understood that Bunny was a sex addict, it got to the point where I began to think, ho hum, here's another girl. He's going to size her up and down, decide she'd do him, he'll imagine her vagina, throw a Kylie Minogue or Avril Lavigne reference in there, then grab his crotch.

I mean, it is what it is. But there was a point where I think even Cave didn't know where to take it.

It's okay, but there's better out there. ( )

Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave I like Nick Cave's music so I naturally came to this with some pre-conceptions.
 
I liked it but not as much as I wanted to.The thing I liked was how seedy it all was, like everything is seedy, the main character is seedy, the locations are seedy, the action is seedy. I guess it's that English thing about squalor. I lived in Amsterdam for a few years and people occupied empty houses (squats or kraakhuis). The Dutch occupied beautiful empty apartments overlooking the canals while the English occupied boarded up slums with no water or toilets or power.Bunny Munro would have been one of those kids when he was younger. Devoid of conscience and taste yet feral and active. There is not one single redeeming feature about Bunny Munro, no shred of humanity at all and the inevitability of it is like watching something die a horrible death.At the end of it I felt a bit like I'd swallowed something bad like processed English food. I know he is from Oz but has that thing down just so.Not for the faint hearted among us. ( )

ugh. yucky and weird. ( )

Quite repetitious and sometimes too comic, but amusing.
I like the fact that NC writes, and that his writing will not eclipse his music. ( )

The excessive perversion of the main character Bunny Munro is at times tiring and mostly unsettling. If not for the story of Bunny's son, Bunny Munro Jr., to counterbalance the storyline of the father, this book would have been lost in its pessimism. No doubt Nick Cave did not set out to create a likable protagonist; the reader has to take Bunny for who he is. I loved the side story of the devil man terrorizing England; it was the perfect pairing to this tale of self destruction and possible redemption. ( )