Name: The Sluts
ISBN: 9780786716746

Dennis Cooper

The Sluts

ok i did not know what i was getting into here… not my usual thing but a very quick read and entertaining! incredibly gruesome and i am a woman of iron constitution. loved the format :)

yasi

An unnecessarily explicit gore and violent book with a lot of repetitive situations that are constantly proven to be fake in the narrative, camouflaged under an empty murder mistery thopic that uses sex as a false promise.

Joaquín Reixa

sobrang dugyot. i think there’s something that can be said on how unreliable the internet is (given that this 

 2000s/y2k era of internet skepticism) and how that somehow is still present today, but tbh, after the first 5 pages, i thought this was more of a commentary on how pedophilia is blatant and rampant in the community, coloring preferences and “kink”. so much so for transgressive fiction—the question now how much this tries to *emulate* reality. sana hindi though. the castration scene was enough to make my stomach churn wahaha

Mika

sobrang dugyot. i think there’s something that can be said on how unreliable the internet is (given that this is 2000s/y2k era of internet skepticism) and how that somehow is still present today, but tbh, after the first 5 pages, i thought this was more of a commentary on how pedophilia is blatant and rampant in the community, coloring preferences and “kink”. so much so for transgressive fiction—the question now how much this tries to *emulate* reality. sana hindi though. the castration scene was enough to make my stomach churn wahaha

Riley

Faith 

So disturbing and raw. Almost reminds me of All About Lily Chou-Chou and Gregg Araki’s films.

4.5

nothing could've prepared for what i was about to read jesus dennis cooper ur one sick fucker love that from u

maybe i don’t read enough but this was genuinely one of the most disturbing, unsettling, nauseating, and overall horrifying things i’ve read

stefano

Mary Marshall

absolutely disgusting and ?????? but also my favorite book i’ve ever read maybe??????

The concept is interesting but the ending just didn't quite land for me. The parts that are meant to be shocking certainly were shocking though. And to give it credit I was fairly invested for the first half ish. 

deacon

i get what he was going for but its just bad and kinda pointless

eris

Vin 

You know after you finish a book and log it in that you’ve completed it, you get an email from goodreads stating “You have finished “****”, what’s next?” 

My answer to that email for this book is therapy.