I'm not kidding when I say a lot is going on. The narrator, Leaf, gets a job at the Satan Burger along with his friends to avoid losing their own souls. To keep the walm from putting him out of business, Satan opens a burger joint where people trade their souls for burgers. It lets beings from other worlds in but it's powered by sucking the souls of people, leaving them hollow shells. The main story line is that a door to alternate dimensions, called "the walm," opens up on Earth. It's not an especially plot-driven book and there is a lot going on.
It's difficult to summarize the plot of Satan Burger. What Neuromancer is to cyberpunk, Satan Burger is to bizarro. It's taken me some time to get to Carlton Mellick III's first novel from 2001, though. I discuss bizarro fiction in a lot of my reviews. I thought the act of kissing became extinct long ago, even before the walm, people just stopped caring enough to kiss before fucking.
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