This book is wild; it reminds me a lot of something like The Third State by Mark B. Follis: expat fiction, fiction that, as a result of being geographically displaced, causes...a third state, a state of dizziness, vertigo, being off balance, losing it. Add drugs, the South American jungle, civil war, religion, a fake priest, epidemics and cannibalism, and well...s*@t.

The ultra genius about Notes is the ending, which brings everything all together, expertly and literally: there's a cannibal to the cannibal, a cannibal behind the cannibal, the ultimate cannibal, the cannibal who eats all (the cannibals). There's still that ultimate god, and who eats the ultimate cannibal? There's one for the philosophically muse-minded (me).

I'm a big fan of this author's work and I recommend MEAT--(the first work I started with, which is also a masterpiece)--if you like this subject matter (which the author does). It's really cool psycho-spiritual dark fiction that is weirdly religious in its exploration of the ultimate sin of the flesh: eating it.

Kudos. ( )