Parasite Milk

Parasite Milk is fine little sci-fi story rather like one of the better Twilight Zone episodes, if the writers had had a respectable endowment of cojones and been exempt from workplace drug testing. It’s a brief mind trip that goes where it means to go without leaving you feeling like it ended too soon or could’ve shown more. The focus of the story is sexual but not in a way that will seem erotic unless you are seriously jaded. FWIW, I’m pretty jaded but cannot fap to this.The only fault that affected my appreciation of the narrative was that it is, until its epilogue, told implausibly in first person. This is not a case of a narrator who turns out to be other than who the reader assumed he was, such as one who is revealed to be a ghost recounting the events leading to his death. That sort of plot twist can be thrilling if it’s pulled off well. By comparison, Parasite Milk reads like the diary of an interesting enough adventure, but in its final pages it’s clear that the narrator doesn’t have a diary and couldn’t write in one if he did—the plot not so much twisted as just left hanging.“So, what am I supposed to be reading, exactly?” is what you’ll ask at story’s end if you’re wired like me.The appeal of bizarro fiction is in the freshness and unpredictability it gets from giving the finger to convention. If even the basic notion that a story’s narrator ought to be a character who could possibly narrate it seems to you a stuffy, trivial rule, Parasite Milk deserves a pass. If it seems more like common sense, you’ll find this bit of nonsense a bit distracting, but the story has done its job. The baby hasn’t gone out with the bathwater; it just has its foot jammed in the drain.

But if you read Mellick you know you are getting weird. Poor camera goes to a mushroom planet with a sex addict director. Poor guy is all I can say without giving more away.

4.5⭐ I loved this bizzare, strange, fascinating, fun story. The writing is smooth and I loved the humor in it. I can't wait to check out more of his work.

While on a different planet filming a TV show, Irving Rice has to figure out if what he is feeling is legit or not. Is his brain messing with him? Could this be real? I have always dug how psychedelic mushrooms looked in posters and on tv and described in books and theres plenty of that here. Mellick does a great job describing the environment that Iriving Rice is in.

I loved Parasite Milk! It took me just a few hours to read this remarkable book, but I haven't been able to stop thinking about it for days. Brilliantly composed, with incredible imagery and hallucinogenic, thought-provoking ideas. I've read around a half dozen of CM3's skillfully-written, hyper-imaginative books, and loved them all, but this was my favorite by far. It's an amazing story, and those vivid descriptions of what occurred inside the Jelly Bug's mushroom chamber on Kynaria are absolutely mind-blowing!

What did I think!? I gave this 5 stars, it's Carlton Mellick III, and I think everyone should check this guy's writing out. This title was a trip...to another world, experience, and bizarre...the way I like it! :)

Up there with Quicksand house, this is a very fleshed out world that was amazing to read about; highly recommended

I've read a dozen Carlton Mellick books. This was one of his best. You can easily read the tome in one sitting. Suspend belief and join the wacky world a man with mutton chops creates.