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List Price: $16.99 | | Publisher: FLF Press
Salesrank: 131221
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Editorial Review:
"WATCH OUT is the story of Jonathan Barrows, a man who falls in love with himself, literally. He is attracted only to himself and takes pleasure in rejecting the advances of his many admirers. Written in an eye-popping style that will shock even the most jaded of readers, WATCH OUT is destined to become a cult classic and Joseph Suglia, a cult icon."
Watch Out Reviews:
Total Waste of Time 
2008-07-02 - This is a sophomoric effort to emulate Georges Bataille. It fails abysmally. This is clearly one of the worst books ever written. You can read this garbage in a half-hour, but you'll never get that half-hour back. I cannot fathom how anyone with any modicum of intelligence can actually praise this garbage, unless you're a 13-year old kid who likes dirty words and torture-porn.
Silly
2008-05-08 - I had the exact same reaction with this book as I did reading J.G. Ballard's "Crash", completely ridiculous writing. I would categorize these types of books as porn, not traditional porn, but porn for people who just like to read the grotesque side of human behavior. I prefer more substance.
Best Thing Written in Ages 
2008-04-24 - Joseph Suglia's WATCH OUT absolutely hung the moon. Some stories become apart of you forever, but this is not the case with WATCH OUT. It is something deeper than that, which is now fused to me from here on out. It's Joseph Suglia's wordings that has redefined all I've ever known or appreciated on the topic of imagery. I've yet to come across anything that touches his command of language. His words pop and brew a cannonball splash of visuals and he was able to pen the strongest adhesive, hyper focused state that has ever graced my reading brain. The plot of WATCH OUT is mentioned throughout these other reviews, but to even judge or acknowledge plot in this book is to miss and detour away from its brilliance. This is not a book for children or little old ladies. While I've read that this book is a cult-classic type, I believe that mainstream America would also be lining up to buy WATCH OUT if they had an inkling of how high the book's fonts strike up a mental-wonderland.
Some characters also become apart of you forever. And again, this is not the case here. Johnathan Barrows is a circus-painted caricature of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (he also qualifies for at least 3 other Personality Disorders, as he is not a milk and toast kinda guy). What is lovable is Joseph Suglia's ability to bewitch the reader into Barrows skewed reality. It is the reader's belly-laughing delight to live amid and note the discrepancies and it is a readers' blessing to see it all cast with language so surged, and jazzed-up, jaw-dropping coolness.
If you are not a minor and young enough to work email, you should absolutely read this book. It will enrich your mind with the coolest word paint I've ever seen.
Do Watch Out--But Absolutely Read
2008-03-19 - As Watch Out opens, the reader is advised: "This novel is rated X;" the sensitive will do well to heed this explicit warning. Author Joseph Suglia's vivid imagination is not for exploration by the timid, and his garish fantasies and violent gesticulations are absolutely not for the faint of constitution. But, those bold souls hoping to spend time with an author offering ideas worth considering will do well with Suglia and Watch Out.
"Average people disgust me," (p. 5) and, with this frank admission, the curious, catawampus world of Professor Jonathan Barrows begins to spill across the pages. The twists and turns are horrifying, while simultaneously hilarious. Throughout the novel, I found myself laughing out loud while cringing--a Suglian swerve on smiling through tears.
Watch Out is not a casual, Saturday-afternoon beach read. Entangling the obscene with the mundane, the brilliant with the repulsive, and the luscious with the lascivious, Suglia doesn't allow an escape from the foolishness passing as culture in today's world. But, consider yourself forewarned: Watch Out challenges the most willing and open-minded of readers--the trifling, the faint-hearted, and the thin-skinned need not enter.
What is self?
2008-03-19 - In essence, Watch Out philosophizes the greatest mystery in the universe: selfhood.
It is the author's confidence in stating that this is the most important work ever written that compelled me to read it. While I am not entirely inclined to agree, I definitely do not disagree. I am in a neutral state, still digesting the extreme depth of the novel.
Reader beware. It is grotesque and violent to the extreme. If I had not read Cows (which has many parallels) I would not have been able to stomach much of the book. But it is through this complex and grotesque delving into the psyche that really makes us connect to the question, what is self?
Throughout the book I found myself bending the corners of pages for later examination.
"There is a place in the system for those who resist the system."
"He who loves, loves in order to have a thing to love. The person whom he loves becomes like a prosthetic appendage, an organ without which he cannot live..."
"When a woman whom you desire inflicts pain on you, your passion for her intensifies. Every woman knows this. And for this reason, women are painful -- painful because they want to be desired."
In his writing, Joseph creates situations that are profoundly focused on individualism, selfhood, self satisfaction, ethics and morals, human dynamics, desire, and choice. With mind boggling absurdity, you will be constantly thinking about the most important questions that exist.
With intentions of recognition, Jonathan Barrows says "Instead of looking at each other, we are trained to look at the stars." before maliciously torturing and shooting a pop icon to ensure his own fame.
Joseph Suglia and several other authors are emerging with pseudo-genre. This is a philosophical look into humanity intensely presented within a fictional horror, satire, and pornographic context.
I like to call this, reading for the brave.
