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The Slippery Slope
The Slippery Slope is a shitty little book that contains 1 short story, 2 plays and a heck of a lot of typos. The Slope says roughly the same thing in 160 pages that Jonathan Richman said in less than 5 minutes in his Modern Lovers’ classic “She Cracked.” The writing in this book is crummy and rather puerile to boot—avoid The Slippery Slope at all costs. Seriously, do not buy this book! Donating $6 to NAMBLA would almost be a better use of your cash than purchasing this piece of shit! 1,000 copies of The Slippery Slope were printed in August of 2002, many of which were destroyed 3 years later by flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina, thus proving that Hurricane Katrina wasn’t all bad after all. THIS IS NOT A CD-R!
Here’s what people have said about this piece of shit:
“I read a good chunk of [The Slope] and it was enjoyable. Crazy, obsessive, scary and overly personal. I guess that’s probably what people think of my stuff too. So I mean all this in a good way.”
—Unnamed Moderately Famous Cartoonist That Is Admired Greatly by Joseph, So Much So That Joseph Is Far Too Embarrassed to Namedrop Said Cartoonist in a Shameless Congratulatory Blurb on This Website
“Sir Joseph is not afraid to throw his cock out and have it…well, bludgeoned.”
—Matt Martin, famed emo-rocker and former singer/guitar-slinger for New Orleans-based rock combos Amerigo and World Leader Pretend
“It’s like adult romance from a twelve-year-old boy’s perspective. I love it.”
—Some anonymous guy
“Larkin makes dysfunction and maladjustment uncomfortably humorous, impossible to ignore.”
—Phil Smoker, reluctant fan
“I’ve been reading The Slope, it’s pretty short, which is something I look for when I consider a read…I have to say, I’ve laughed, but I’ve winced almost as much. Brutally honest, yes, but also just plain fuckin’ brutal. Relentlessly! I don’t want to give away the ending, but…Rita Moreno gets him off. Fuck, man, sometimes when I was reading the book I thought back to those Internet smut stories I’d always bump into (you might call them “sex fantasy tales” or something), and thought [Larkin was] parodying them. I just thought smut story + sitcom mishap = The Slippery Slope. That’s the big secret, isn’t it?”
—Kirk Ketler, Internet luminary
And here’s an interview with Joseph P. Larkin regarding his self-published literary masterpiece The Slippery Slope (originally conducted by Jerkhammer Press):
Q: Why do you feel the urge to make private things public like you are doing in your book The Slippery Slope—why even publish a book in the first place?!
A: I dunno. I just had a mania for writing.