The Sluts
Books | Fiction / LGBT / Gay
4.1
Dennis Cooper
"Cooper deserves reassessment . . . this compelling page-turner ought to remind adventurous readers that important transgressive literature needn't be something only the French and the occasional perverted American can get behind."-LA Weekly Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and told through the postings, emails, and conversations of several dozen unreliable narrators, The Sluts chronicles the evolution of one young escort's date with a satisfied client into a metafiction of pornography, lies, half-truths, and myth. Explicit, shocking, comical, and displaying the author's signature flair for blending structural complexity with direct, stylish, accessible language, The Sluts is Cooper's most transgressive novel since Frisk, and one of his most innovative works of fiction to date.
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Author
Dennis Cooper
Pages
304
Publisher
Hachette Books
Published Date
2005-10-19
ISBN
0786716746 9780786716746
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"So, I did enjoy the begging of this book. I did expect it to lean more into the death and destruction as opposed to the graphic depictions of sex. I DNF’d this because the story got too confusing and I had to keep re-reading to remember who was who. That being said, the parts I did read, (I read over half of the book,) gave me a TON of anxiety and made me VERY uncomfortable. If you wanna see how far you can push your limits of comfort, this will be the one to do it."
B Miller
"i’m gonna be honest, even giving this book a rating of any kind feels wrong. dennis cooper’s writing style appeals to me, but holy **** is this book extreme. you’ve got men with murder kinks who want to make snuff films with other men. what the ****. and the whole plot with brad is just…wow. mr. cooper’s insane."
JT Elder
"I don’t think i’ve ever read a book that confused and disgusted me as much as this one. Though that doesn’t mean I didn’t like it. Even with the confusion, this book made me feel a ton of emotions. I don’t know whether to feel bad or not for the characters in this book especially Thad. I do find it kind of silly that there is Thad and Brad. One of the very few little goofy things I found funny in this book. Overall, I did like it but some parts made me feel gross."
Kay <3
"weird and in one scene i almsot puked, but interesting neverhteless"
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