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    We Eat Our Own: A Novel
    We Eat Our Own: A Novel
    We Eat Our Own: A Novel
    Audiobook9 hours

    We Eat Our Own: A Novel

    Written by Kea Wilson

    Narrated by Paul Woodson

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    When a nameless, struggling actor in 1970s New York gets the call that an enigmatic director wants him for an art film set in the Amazon, he doesn't hesitate: he flies to South America, no questions asked. He quickly realizes he's made a mistake. He's replacing another actor who quit after seeing the script-a script the director now claims doesn't exist. The movie is over budget. The production team seems headed for a breakdown. The air is so wet that the celluloid film disintegrates. But what the actor doesn't realize is that the greatest threat might be the town itself, and the mysterious shadow economy that powers this remote jungle outpost. Entrepreneurial Americans, international drug traffickers, and M-19 guerillas are all fighting for South America's future-and the groups aren't as distinct as you might think. The actor thought this would be a role that would change his life. Now he's worried if he'll survive it. Inspired by a true story from the annals of 1970s Italian horror film, and told in dazzlingly precise prose, We Eat Our Own#160;is a resounding literary debut, a thrilling journey behind the scenes of a shocking film and a thoughtful commentary on violence and its repercussions.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9781681682396
    Author

    Kea Wilson

    Kea Wilson received her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, where she lives and works. We Eat Our Own is her first novel.

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    • 1/5
      I received a copy of this book as a free advance review audiobook and have chosen of my own free will to post a review. I found this book to be very boring and a waste of my time to listen to. The author skips around a great deal. The story doesn’t make sense and is very hard to follow.
    • 1/5
      This book is an absolute mess. Did not like it at all. It was hard to keep plots and subplots straight. The frequent change of tense and POV was jolting. It wasn't until after the completion of the audiobook that I learned that the story was based on fact. I don't think that knowledge would have helped. Even the competent and talented narrator couldn't save this one for me. Thanks for LT's Early Reviewers program for the audiobook. Unfortunately, they can't all be winners.
    • 2/5
      This book just was not interesting enough. I kept stopping and trying to go back and finish but was unable to.
    • 2/5
      I had a really hard time finishing this book. I disliked the writting and it was just no interesting.
    • 3/5
      It is a humid, strange and remote jungle town in South America that a struggling actor is called to in order to replace an actor who has quit for the filming of a movie set in the Amazon. The town is in an area that is surrounded by gang fighting, guerrilla factions and the drug cartel control and infighting. Accidents, interpersonal tensions and personal struggles haunts the other actors and crew on the film.This was a difficult audio book for me to listen to and I stopped it many times and I am an avid audio book listener as well as reader. The book is not only about filming a horror film but depicts the horrors and layers of emotions and feelings that each person has. Because it was not the type of story that I usually read or enjoy, my review may be a bit too harsh. I give it a 2.5 star review. I did not like the story line or writing in this book however it might be a good read for those who enjoy a somewhat cannibalistic and violent horror story.
    • 2/5
      This was a tough one for me. The pros: the writing is good--very good, in fact. The premise of the story, which I guess is based on true events, is excellent. The con: the first 60% is boring as hell. I stopped reading for a while, read a couple of other books, thinking I would get back to it, and.....there it sits. I just don't have the interest. The problem here is that the narration is so passive, that even when something DOES happen (and not much does), there's no driving action. So, events are remarked, but it's like learning history from a textbook instead of reading first-hand narratives. This novel has that textbook level of pacing, which makes for a dull story.However, I must reiterate that I enjoyed the prose. The author has a sense of the poetry in the mundane, the scene settings are excellent, the characters take too long to develop but they are certainly more interesting than those that inhabit pulp fiction, and probably as good as most in literary fiction.I believe this is a first novel. I wouldn't write this author off yet, but (s)he needs to figure out some how to pace her writing better to retain the readers' interest.
    • 3/5
      I have to say I wasn’t sure how to rate this because I’m not sure how I feel about it. The story is about a no-name actor hired to work on a film in South America. He has no idea what the story is about as he is never given a script or told when he is needed. The director, and Italian low budget horror film maker is bent on making a realistic documentary type of film about people that go missing in the jungle. While this is going on, so is the story of rebels planning a revolution and a flash forward of the court case involving the missing (presumed dead actors) from this film. It was hard to get into as the characters were not ones that I liked or cared about. I was actually happy when the story ended and all was resolved.
    • 3/5
      "He can kill anyone he wants. It's his movie."Can a book so closely based on a real-life story still be wildly imaginative? You bet.The inspiration for Kea Wilson's bizarre WE EAT OUR OWN is the infamous story of Italian director Ruggero Deodato's horror/exploitation film "Cannibal Holocaust." As crazy as that true story may be, Wilson gives it her own spin and takes us on a wild joyride to Colombia and the Amazon jungle. She cleverly plays with the genre of the film, creating a sort of horror/exploitation novel. And she always keeps us guessing, with jumps back and forth in time, between characters, and from the film crew to a cell of Marxist revolutionaries. Nothing is quite as it seems in this strange and unnerving novel. That said, the novel wasn't entirely a success for me. At times, it irritated the hell out of me. I thought the book was at its best when it focused on the film crew, and I found it much less successful when the revolutionaries were on stage. Some characters simply didn't work. It's campy and crazy and excessive, and sometimes it all gets to be too much. I listened to the audio version of the novel, and my irritation level may have been increased by Paul Woodson's narration, which was melodramatic and over the top.In the end, this was a mixed bag for me. Kea Wilson clearly has talent to burn, and I look forward to reading what she writes next.(Thanks to HighBridge Audio and Scribner for an advance copy. Receiving a free copy did not affect the content of my review.)
    • 2/5
      There is a lot going on in this book, with multiple viewpoints from the characters involved in making a horror movie in the Columbian jungle. The most interesting is Adrian, playing the role of Robert in the movie, who is desperate actor who thinks this movie is his big break. His viewpoint is told largely in the second person, as if the actor is discussing himself.The rest of the characters are much less interesting. The movie itself is a mess of guerrilla film-making and marketing of a found footage film. The story itself wanders around. I found the second half to be much more interesting than the first half. The book finally reveals what it is trying to do with these different perspectives and the art of film-making.I don't remember why asked for a review copy of this audiobook. It took me a long time to get through it because I rarely found the characters or story to be so interesting. There was usually something better to read or listen to at my fingertips.
    • 1/5
      ICK, just ick. Granted, the book is supposed to be icky at one level--it's about the filming of a horror movie, and there is the question of whether or not the actors were killed during the filming of the movie. However, this book is a jumble of vaguely-related story-lines, told both in the second person (referring to the reader as "you") and third person. The jumbled storylines are made even more difficult to follow by the switching between past and present, and the narrator telling "you" what you know and what you don't know. Furthermore, none of the characters were sympathetic, and I pretty much wanted all of them to die.
    • 4/5
      Has anyone out there heard of the movie “Cannibal Holocaust”? Let me give you a quick rundown of this movie and it’s notoriety. And I mean NOTORIETY. So “Cannibal Holocaust” is one of the first ‘found footage’ horror movies. It is about a group of people who go into the Amazonian rainforest to make a documentary about indigenous cannibal tribes, but then disappear. Their footage is found by a professor and the canisters contain many, many horrors including animal cruelty, arson, rape, and murder. When this movie was released, the director, Ruggero Deodato, told the main actors, largely unknown, to lay low for about a year so as to continue the illusion that they did actually disappear and meet terrible fates in the jungle. Which worked too well, as Deodato was arrested and charged with making a snuff film. The actors did come out of obscurity to clear him, but still. Yikes. So what is MY experience with this infamous horror movie? As a huge and avid horror fan, I wanted to show how edgy and hardcore I was and watched that movie a couple years ago. And let me say, an hour and a half of gratuitous violence and multiple graphic rape scenes isn’t the best way to spend a day off, especially if you are feverish.I was absolutely disgusted and repulsed by this movie. BUT, when my mother sent me an email about a new book called “We Eat Our Own”, it sounded very familiar. It sounded like the behind the scenes malarkey that went on during the filming of “Cannibal Holocaust”, but in the form of a horror novel. Okay, FINE, as much as that movie made me sick to my stomach, this premise had me TOTALLY SOLD!!!! A horror novel about the production of a “Cannibal Holocaust”-esque film? This clearly is going to be totally screwy and nasty and kind of fun and over the top, right?!Well, not totally. Kea Wilson’s “We Eat Our Own” is very much based on the filming of “Cannibal Holocaust”, but it’s written in so many interesting ways that it felt less like a horror novel and more like an experimental literary one. For one thing, there are no quotation marks around the dialog, nor are there always indents when a new person is talking. But the most glaring experiment is that whenever the chapter is about the Unnamed American Actor, who is referred to by his character’s name (Richard), it is written in the second person (“You get a call from your agent, you go to pack your bags” etc), giving us an immersive experience for about half of the content of the book. While at first I thought that a second person perspective would limit the reader, Wilson worked around it by saying “you know this, but what you don’t know is that…”, and then tell us about the other characters in the scene or what’s going to happen to “Richard” in the future. I will admit that at first it was hard for me to wrap my mind around these devices. After all, I was kind of expecting a straight forward horror novel about a doomed production team (why I assumed everyone would actually die when that is not what happened in it’s real life inspiration, I couldn’t tell you). Instead I got a writing experiment that touched on more than just what was happening to the production team. I’m not ashamed to admit that it took me a little bit of time to really get into this book because of this style, but once I figured it out I actually really liked it, especially the parts where it would say “what you don’t know is that this extra is going to be running away and escaping her circumstances…”, because it found a really great way to learn more about these other characters without compromising the device.The other chapters that aren’t “Richard’s”/the reader’s POV focus on other characters involved in the circumstances, be they that of crew members, the other actors, or the locals who are dealing with their own violent circumstances. Wilson takes the time to address not only the quagmire that is happening in the jungle at the time, but also the tenuous political situation that is simmering in Colombia. While an Italian filmmaker and his predominantly Western crew are trying to make a movie about cannibalistic and stereotypical tribal violence, there is unrest in the town that they are in, as a group of M-19 guerrillas are starting to boil over with tension, as they have a kidnapped Venezuelan attaché in their custody and are trying to plan an attack. An American who has set up shop in town has hooked them up with a cartel, and now things are on the brink of an explosion of violence. While it was great to see an acknowledgment of the ills going on in Colombia at the time, some of which were the result of remnants of Western colonialism and the drug trade that fueled Western noses at the time, these were the parts of the story that were the hardest for me to get into. The writing style is jumpy and at times haphazard enough, so to jump completely from one storyline to another was harder for me to follow. That being said, Wilson did a great job of showing how all of these characters are connected, and masterfully weaved them all together. There were times that we would get the conclusions to some storylines of other chapters through the eyes of another chapter and the character that it was following, which I really liked. It was also really biting to show an Italian filmmaker and his crew making a movie that perpetuates a brutal and dangerous stereotype about a group of people in Colombia (specifically the Yąnomamö), only to find themselves in a violent situation that has been built up by Western greed and entitlement.Thinking about this book more and really dissecting it, I quite enjoyed “We Eat Our Own”. Don’t go in thinking that it’s your run of the mill horror novel. It’s definitely more complex than I expected it to be, and I think that Kea Wilson is definitely an author that I am going to be on the look out for as time goes on.
    • 3/5
      I received a copy of the audio version of this title as part of LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program. I am not sure that this is an ideal pick for audio - the narrative switches around frequently, and, at times, it was difficult to follow the various story lines. As a fictionalized account of the controversy surrounding "Cannibal Holocaust," I think the story works well. Unfortunately, I didn't find it quite as gripping or as horrifying as I expected. I also found the ending a bit of a let-down. An interesting debut.Thanks to the publisher for a review copy.
    • 4/5
      An interesting mashup of horror (about the very loosely fictionalized filming of Cannibal Holocaust) and literary fiction about the Colombian Revolution, this probably has a pretty narrow audience, but it's fascinating and repellent in equal measure, like all the best horror movies.
    • 3/5
      I have mixed feels about the story. Parts was really exciting and was really getting into it,,,then it would change to another group and would have to find my way to what was happening. Can't wait for the next book from Kea Wilson, there is good, with room to improve.