ergative's review
There's no point in giving a star rating to a Chuck Tingle story. I read it as a joke for my book group, but also I'm very glad to have experienced the Chuck Tingle phenomenon. I get the joke, yes, but I kind of wish Tingle had committed to it more. Surely there are ways of extending the metaphor of a giant sentient monetary instrument into a sexual encounter without just jamming a penis on it? Can't the penis be a manifestation of the unexpected consequences of Brexit that were perfectly obvious to anyone who thought about it, but still came as a surprise to the Brexiters? E.g.,
'Your cock is enormous! I had no idea it was hiding in there!'
'Just like you had no idea you'd have to queue in the non-EU passport control line, right? But if you'd looked at my bulging package before I took off my pants, you might have foreseen this consequence. Anyway, bend over.'
Or, you know, something like that.
'Your cock is enormous! I had no idea it was hiding in there!'
'Just like you had no idea you'd have to queue in the non-EU passport control line, right? But if you'd looked at my bulging package before I took off my pants, you might have foreseen this consequence. Anyway, bend over.'
Or, you know, something like that.
finlaaaay's review
5.0
Swear i'm not just reading this to pad out my reading challenge... in fact i'm gonna go back and add a few to my goal to compensate. I just realized i had this in my kindle today - read a couple of the others last year and put them off for a while. The title is a journey in itself but i was not prepared for the contents of this one - time travel! quadruple decker buses! It's got the lot~~
roxanamalinachirila's review
4.0
It takes a certain sort of mad genius to write political and/or social commentary in porn form, but Chuck Tingle manages it.
This very short story is worth it for things like these:
And of course:
This very short story is worth it for things like these:
“So I’m sure you’re wondering how we all became giant, floating coins, huh?” the pound asks me.
“Actually, yeah,” I confess. “Did you just say all?”
The pound nods.
“As in, everyone became coins, not just you?” I continue.
“The pound lost so much value that we had to make up for it by becoming pounds ourselves,” Perber explains.
“That doesn’t really make any sense,” I tell him.
“None of this makes any sense,” the coin counters, “but it’s all we’ve got
left. You’re all we’ve goy left.”
And of course:
"I want you to fuck me,” I tell the living coin. “I want you to fuck me up
my tight gay ass, just like we’ve all fucked ourselves with this vote!”
paulgodfread's review
3.0
I only gave this a 3, because ratings don't work for books like this. It was fun and funny, kind of like MST3k for erotica. Really, its both 1 and 5. It is a shit book. But its supposed to be. And it works.
ratatouille1312's review against another edition
5.0
i think more political books should be written in the form of gay erotica