Really smart theological fiction for those who don't appreciate being preached to.

How do you remember Eden? Everyone has their own favorite ideal of what the home of the first man and woman looked like. A perfectly landscaped garden, replete with every imaginable flora and fauna. Perfect weather, a bright blue sky, and two naked humans given reign over this idyllic setting. Well, what if things weren't so idyllic? What if Adam and Eve were at the bottom of the food chain? What if you could go see it all for yourself with the help of a hyperdimensional time-ship? In his first

A group of priests from the Dawn of Yahweh sect goes back in time to hunt sharks in paradise garden with Adam and Eve, only to have their ship crash, killing most of the people on board. Exploring a hostile landscape populated by flying sharks, jellyfish whiskey addicted robots, and wheeled wild boars, can Ernest and the rest of the survivors find Adam and Eve and find their way back home?Maybe it's a lifetime of being interested in weird things but some bizarro books don't seem all that weird t...

Surreálná, ale svižná. Ujetá a víceméně zábavná. Bůh je svatá trojice žraloků a brokovnice je řešení.

This story is full of colourful, strange and downright absurd characters and animals, visuals and situations. I enjoyed every moment with it, and I think that it being rather short - much like Pierce's other works - serves it well, since the silly, weird and stupid (in a good way) are all condensed into a hilarious block of happenings that you'll find hard to put down. That is to say, if you're into bizarro fiction. If you're going into a story called Shark Hunting in Paradise Garden and expecti...

Surprisingly, this is even crazier than 'Ass Goblins of Auschwitz". At the same time, "Shark Hunting in Paradise Garden" feels more consistent, like it actually follows its own logic. I'm slightly concerned about the first-person present tense narrative. It gets tiresome and I hope Pierce doesn't write all his books this way.

A mad book with some of the most interesting characters I've met in a long time. A take on religion that raises tons of questions about morality and faith if you look deep enough but if I'm honest. I just loved reading about the fucking shark son of God!

I liked this book but reading it left me with a profound sense of regret and melancholy that I hadn’t done more hard drugs in my life. I am convinced that if I done serious amounts of peyote mixed with Halcion, I would’ve been able to better visualize passages like: I shrug and chomp down on a tentacle. The sudden rush of synthetic battery taste tremor-blasts down my spine and coils spider web patterns in my belly. My eyes water me blind and my face puckers citrus-sour… Alas, my imaginatio

God is a megashark and you are an asshole.

Absolutely genius. It's been a while since a book has gotten me this emotionally involved in it. Aside from his bizarre creativity and awesome writing style, Cameron addresses some basic human themes like religion, God, and hopelessness/hope in a way that is unique and honest. Shark Hunting leaves you a little heartbroken, and that's okay.It also gives you a little hope, and that's okay, too.It makes you want to be a mannequin and live in a whitewashed mannequin world, where everything is fragil...

What to say about Cameron Pierce's debut novella?Well, for starters, the story is totally kick ass. A weird futuristic Christian Cult called "Yahweh's Dawn" travels back in time to Paradise Garden in order to hunt sharks. They are invited by Adam & Eve, but when they get there they discover something unexpected. Giant sharks are at war with intelligent / humanesque robots, and worse, Adam & Eve don't even exist. Now they are on a mission to find God while trying to avoid death by Robots and/or S...

I'm not sure if it's that I don't have a firm grasp on the bizzaro genre or what, but I found it somewhat hard to enjoy this book. This was my first swing at bizzaro. I like that the imagination of Cameron Pierce bounces around so freely, but it seems to come out kind of half-baked like it hasn't been fully realized or something. He turns some incredibly poetic phrases. Some striking images like a glass shark full of whiskey. I know that this was his first book, so maybe he just wasn't in full s...

Making fun of organized religion is as easy as making fun of mental retardation or flatulence. Farting Down Syndrome Jesus is not altogether unlikely to appear somewhere. Writers make fun of faith as if they could be burnt at the stake for it. I'm getting kind of bored of it. Cameron Pierce doesn't do that. He's twenty years old, he's writing a book about God and it isn't about Farting Down Syndrome Jesus and it's not about how Satan is a rockstar. That automatically earns some points and puts h...

Cameron Pierce has gone out of his way to mention Ridley Scott's Alien in his fiction, and judging by this stark, nihilistic and alien work, I have to believe he counts it as an influence on his own fiction.We have a handful of religious people who are brought to the Garden of Eden in order to study it. Their vessel, the Gibarian crashes, killing every leprechaun who may have brought them superstitious luck on their journey.Along the way, the long suffering crew (consisting of a bird man, a snak...

Cameron Pierce throws a motley crew of priests into Eden in search of Adam and Eve and some recreational shark hunting. Things go from bad to worse in a matter a minutes. Pierce's prose is poetic and tastier than some squid. The surreal world that he builds is intoxicating and ultimately adds to the overall tone of the novella. It may sound like there is no point to all the weirdness,but that is far from the case. Religion lies at the heart of this novella and takes on a whole new light by the e...

I'll write a decent review in the near future. For now, I'll just say that this book was a really fun read and I recommend it to people who like their fantasy with a little sprinkle of sci-fi and a load of surrealism and strangeness.