Imagine the look on my face when I opened the Amazon package and saw the two books above side by side. Such a simultaneous ordering was not planned, neither was my voluminous laugh out loud before I asked myself: "What have I done?"
Early this past week I learned that Michael Coren published a new book: Diary of a Low-Born Cleric - A Year in the Priesthood
Mid-week, while sorting and reorganizing my physical media (CDs/DVDs/BDs), I rewatched Llik Your Idols, a 2007 documentary on "The Cinema of Transgression"; not exactly "Cinema" right up my alley, but fascinating and appealing to my "Kick-Ass Cinema" side. It was time I ordered Deathtripping - The Extreme Underground, Jack Sargeant's definitive book on that school. He's one of the interviewees in Llik, no surprise, as is Nick Zedd, coiner of "Cinema of Transgression".
The Reverend Michael Coren is an excellent writer. The Rebel Christ (2021) I reviewed here. Last summer I engaged with Heaping Coals - From Media Firebrand to Anglican Priest (2024), another terrific and enlightening read — and one often moving, to boot.
Last summer I relaxed with, what would prove to be, the perfect companion piece, a Carona beer, and enjoyed Nick Zedd's Totem of the Depraved (1997). I often laughed out loud.
What the books' respective endorsements have to say....
Deathtripping - The Extreme Underground
"There will be blood, shame, pain and ecstasy, the likes of which no one has yet imagined."
— Nick Zedd
Diary of a Low-Born Cleric - A Year in the Priesthood
"This godless heathen was enchanted, amused, and wholly engaged by Michael Coren's delightful book. He could almost make me a believer."
— Stephen Fry
No doubt I will agree... in both cases.
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