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Benjamin's Parasite Pub. Date: 5/5/2009 Publisher: Delirium Books

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Overview

At any given moment, the human body contains millions of parasites.

This is the story of just one.

A really, really nasty one.

Benjamin Wilson was having a lousy month even before the stomach pains began. He was about to turn forty. One of his students had been shot while on a homicidal meat cleaver rampage. And shortly after the funeral, Benjamin didn't feel so good...

Now everything is changing. His body is being affected in some very unpleasant ways. His personality is developing a few "quirks." But the biggest change is that he has a bunch of evil and/or psychotic people trying to hunt him down to acquire the parasite. His only hope is Julie, a gorgeous bounty hunter who may or may not have Benjamin's best interests in mind, and who may or may not be competent enough to help him anyway.

Jeff Strand, author of The Sinister Mr. Corpse, Gleefully Macabre Tales, and Pressure, delivers his most outrageous adventure yet-an over-the-top mix of gruesome body horror and a wacky road trip comedy.

You'll laugh until your intestines scramble.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781934546123
Publisher: Delirium Books
Publication date: 5/5/2009
Pages: 232
Sales rank: 644,540
Product dimensions: 0.49 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 5.50 (d)

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thorockmorton

Posted December 11, 2009

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Awesome, awesome read!

When I first heard of this novel coming out I'll admit I did not know what to expect. This being my first Jeff Strand book, I had to base my decision solely on how much others enjoyed it. As you can see, here on Amazon there are not that many reviews, but the ones that are here tell you this book is fantastic.

Benjamin is your everyday run of the mill high school English teacher. He spends his days teaching and his nights grading papers. He has a lovely wife, who he still desires after all these years, and a typical teenage daughter. Yes Benjamin has a pretty normal life and enjoys the small luxuries when he can. That is until the day of his meat cleaver swinging student's (Brian) funeral. When Benjamin heard about Brian's death, he just could not believe his ears. The poor boy went insane for sure.. Little did Benjamin know, he'd be next to lose his mind and more.

Something isn't right inside of Benjamin. He's feeling some changes that he cannot explain. His desires such as gambling, eating sweets, and making love to his wife, have increased a hundred fold. He can feel himself becoming slightly different and is hit by the most excruciating pain he's ever felt in his life. Benjamin is rushed to the hospital and kidnapped by a woman named Julie he's never met before and will probably wish he never had.

What follows is a sometimes zany, sometimes serious, but often times hilarious tale of two people on the run to remove Benjamin's parasite. The clock is against him now, will he make it in time?

If you read any book this year, it should be this one.

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AllPurposeMonkey

Posted July 6, 2009

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Yet Another Strand Masterpiece

There may well have never been a bigger understatement in the history of official book summaries than the one which accompanies Benjamin's Parasite by Jeff Strand:

"At any given moment, the human body contains millions of parasites. This is the story of just one. A really, really nasty one."

Combining horror and comedy in such a way that neither overpowers the other is a delicate operation, but it's something Strand has demonstrated time and again he is a master of doing with surgical precision. And you gotta know when a book starts with a meat clever rampage that things can only go in one direction intensity wise, and Strand doesn't disappoint.

After attending the funeral of one of his students, the perpetrator of the meat cleaver rampage in fact, high school teacher Benjamin Wilson begins to feel, well... odd. At first the changes affecting Benjamin are merely an inconvenience; namely, the inability to control his cravings for sex and candy. But hey, how can more sex and candy really be a bad thing, right? But there are also stomach pains, which Benjamin initially writes off as the result of the massive candy consumption.

Except that the pains don't go away when he goes cold turkey on the candy, they actually get worse. Considerably worse. So much so that, after collapsing at work with incapacitating pain, Benjamin ends up in the hospital where he receives the news he has an intestinal parasite... one that x-rays reveal looks like "a squid monster" much to Benjamin's horror. Surgical removal being the only option, Benjamin is prepped for surgery and whisked to the OR. And this, folks, is where business picks up and things go seriously awry.

Kidnapped from the OR at gunpoint by a female bounty hunter named Julie who's been hired to bring him back to the secret lab that created the parasite, Benjamin quickly finds himself in a downwardly spiraling succession of events. After a high speed car chase Benjamin is kidnapped from his kidnapper by a pair of hitmen brothers whose extreme incompetence would be funny if they weren't also bent on extreme violence. Reacquired by Julie, Benjamin endures a disturbingly Deliverance-esque side trip, an increasingly aggressive parasite that Benjamin comes to believe is actually communicating with him, an airplane/skydiving sequence worthy of James Bond, and a mutant, rampaging Franken-cow (yes, you read that correctly) as the story rockets along to its diabolically demented conclusion.

Jeff Strand is the author of over a dozen books, including the Bram Stoker nominated Pressure, The Sinister Mr. Corpse, and the outstanding Andrew Mayhem series, and Strand has delivered yet another masterpiece in Benjamin's Parasite.
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