Live Bait Paperback – April 12, 2015

Live Bait is a fantastic new novella from Cameron Pierce, author of Our Love Will Go the Way of the Salmon. Pierce uses his love of fishing to provide a backdrop for a story of loneliness and the search for a human connection at the end world. Two men, who live solitary lives, are drawn together during a fight to land a monster fish. The two men soon become close friends, less because of their similarities that out of their yearning for a human connection. Gordon narrates the story from his point of view and brings the reader into his world, contemporary Portland beset by monster fish.What will happen to the outsiders, those who live on the margins of society, when the world comes crashing down? Live Bait tackles that question with admirable results. The story is engaging from beginning to end and takes on, at different times, a hallucinatory vibe, the portrait of a friendship, a tale of water monsters and class differences as the known world crumbles. There is a ton of stuff going on is this roughly 80 page story, enough that when you finish it in one sitting, you’ll be left thinking you’ve just read a thousand-page epic.Earlier this year, Cameron Pierce released Bottom Feeders, co-authored by Adam Cesare, which was also a great yarn about monster fish. The fascinating thing is that Live Bait is as different a story as it can be while still being about man-eating and world-destroying fish. It’s a lyrical, intelligent and emotionally raw story that delivers from beginning to end.

Like usual, another great read from the likes of Cameron Pierce. The book started off just as I had expected, with the story of a fish, but from there, I was hooked in placed, and drug along for the ride. It didn't go in the direction I was expecting it to, but that's why it made it a fun read. Give it a shot, just like any other by Cameron, and you will not be disappointed...

"Cameron Pierce Gives Us a Bizarre Apocalypse Fishing Tale"In His Short Book "Live Bait." Gordon West Is Telling and Writing Down His Bizarre and Twisted Story About Him and His Friend Joe Who Are Going Through This Weird and Horrific End Of The World Experience While Gordon West Is Waiting To Be Sacrificed.Is The Military,The CIA,Or Occultists Have Anything To Do With The River Monsters and Bizarre Creatures With Tentacles Killing and Destorying The World. Has a Occult-Biological Portal To a Another Dimension Opened Under The Ocean Floor. Read This Story To Uncover The Mystery.""A Mustread.""

Live Bait is a fun, quick read full of fishing, friendship, loneliness, desperation, blood, booze, drugs, and cults (often all at the same time). If you're a fan of Cameron Pierce or strange sea monster stories, then you should definitely give this one a go. This novella might be my favorite story of Cameron's fish related work, or at the very least, it is tied with his short story collection Our Love Will Go the Way of the Salmon.

Quick, fun beach read! Definitely worth your time if you are into either! You'll like it. Sixteen word minimum. There!

This book was just ok. Maybe the problem was in the length of the book - it felt too short and rushed - very little character development before things just turned..... well..... odd. By the end of the book, it just seemed to be downright silly.

Short strange story....somewhat original and interesting in parts....but felt rushed at end....and kind of lost some steam getting there.

good book

This is a book of two halves. The first half sees Gordon befriend a man named Bob whom he meets when fishing one day. The two latch onto a huge monster fish and one of them gets injured. The friendship that evolves between the two in such a short space of time is great and a fishing/boozing bromance begins. The second part of the book turns totally bizarre, but in a really cool way. I will not spoil it for you. A really great quick read from Cameron Pierce. If you enjoy this, and fishing tales with Lovecraftian style goings on, I urge you to check out his other book called Bottom Feeders, co wrote with Adam Cesare. Bait up and wet a line.

It started off really well and I enjoyed most of the book but for me the story just seemed to dwindle and go of in a different direction almost as if he couldnt think of how it would end. Overall an enjoyable read will certainly read more of his work.

interesting and well written, but perhaps too ambitious for how short it is.