Fifteen months after its original release, the technology is finally available to present Danger_Slater’s Love Me as the author intended. Each frame has been digitally remastered and the track listing rearranged to incorporate the preferred song-order envisioned by Sir Paul McCartney. Likewise, Phil Spector’s controversial strings arrangements have been scaled back allowing for a bare-bones, back-to-basic approach to prose. Finally, Boba Fett has been inserted via cutting-edge CGI into all the bathhouse scenes. All in all, this is the definitive version of Love Me, the one where nothing’s left to the imagination about whether or not Harrison Ford is really a replicant.

Okay, we’ve done none of that because Love Me is a fucking novel not a Beatles album or a beloved scifi film from your youth. Love Me needs no reworking because it’s sodding perfect as it is. We just felt that after spending most of the summer and fall flogging our new releases — that would be Eirik Gumeny’s Exponential Apocalypse 2: Dead Presidents and Ryan Werner’s Shake Away These Constant Days — we should go back and show some love to last year’s major release from JDP.

Love Me is the heartbreaking tale of a guy in a Viking suit searching for the meaning of life. It’s a lot like Death of a Salesman, only with questing, dick jokes, toasters, and anti-matter devices. And, obviously, viking outfits.

Danger recently was interviewed by Jess resides here about the novel and if you take a moment to peruse the (non-paid-for, genuine) reviews over at Amazon, you’ll see what a great little book this is. You can get your copy for just $9.99 or, if you wait till Monday, there’s a very strong chance you’ll be able to get it for FREE for your Kindle (along with a couple of JDP’s other best back titles).

Show Love Me the adoration it deserves. Discover this lost classic all over again. Share it with friends. Spread the word.

Be the Viking.