aprilgetsstitched's review
dark
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
spacestationtrustfund's review against another edition
1.0
This feels exactly like an edgy teenager writing #deep musings on why love and death are considered two sides of the same coin or whatever.
tyler_j's review against another edition
3.25
A collection of 32 stories, or something like that. I rated each one and it averaged out to 3.23. I seemed to enjoy the second half more than the first half over-all. Some stories I liked, some I hated. It's...disturbing at times, thought-provoking at times, wtf is wrong with you (and me for reading this) at times.
grotesqueanimal's review
3.0
“In death we become defenseless and, to necrophiles, irresistible. Every cadaver is a sex object, and in that sense the terrorist who blew off his body is a symbol of our common fate. In the end, we are all of us reduced to a dead genital.”
petrich0re's review
challenging
dark
funny
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
tar92's review against another edition
4.0
....This book is so weird and awkward. It makes me want to be cremated when I die. But not all the stories were great. Some gave a very interesting take on necrophilia and death. Not for the weak of heart...
birdbeakbeast's review against another edition
2.0
When a friend pointed out the book to me, I was very enthusiastic to read it cover to cover. And that enthusiasm did not die out for the first few short stories. After those, however, the patterns became so clear you couldn't ignore them anymore; the main character is always a (presumably white) male, interested in female corpses, if a profession is mentioned it's often writing or the character has an artistic interest. The women don't play an acive role in any of the stories. The structure is always the same: main develops a fetish, main is ashamed of his fetish, main contemplates how to cure himself, main continues the necrophilia anyway.
The only storyline I found memorable was Graveyard Survival Training, because it was the only one that diverged from the norm established within this story collection. The main character was equally obnoxious and mysoginist as the other mains though, and slightly whiny, but at least here you got a more or less decent psychological presentation or evolution. That's why I read the book, after all: to see if the writer could capture the psychology of a necrophile. Either Supervert failed to do this, or I expected a more complex psychology han presented in this book.
The only storyline I found memorable was Graveyard Survival Training, because it was the only one that diverged from the norm established within this story collection. The main character was equally obnoxious and mysoginist as the other mains though, and slightly whiny, but at least here you got a more or less decent psychological presentation or evolution. That's why I read the book, after all: to see if the writer could capture the psychology of a necrophile. Either Supervert failed to do this, or I expected a more complex psychology han presented in this book.
maojin's review against another edition
5.0
and of course i don't need to say how i came across this book, because i am confident to say that 98% of us here only picked this one up because of a (excellent) video of a certain (very smart, very funny, very sexy) woman narrating this book while working her way towards an orgasm.
it's really not that morbid. there aren't really that many graphic descriptions of fucking corpses and i don't think the passages are as gross as, say, Guts. thanks chuck.
maybe i can handle psychological perversion better. most of the book is theorising about corpses and fucking, not so much fucking corpses. much less "i slid my tumescent pisser inside a rotting orifice oh yaeh yeah mm maggots crawling around my throbbing member oOOOhH". which i can handle.
i would put this book on the same level of ~perversion~ as Tampa by Alissa Nutting, maybe even a little lower. that was hard to get through. this book was funny and smart and the author uses sexy words that remind me of Nabokov. it was a smooth ride all along. it's nothing like i've ever read before. and you really should, cause a book about fucking corpses that makes you laugh? precious.
it's really not that morbid. there aren't really that many graphic descriptions of fucking corpses and i don't think the passages are as gross as, say, Guts. thanks chuck.
maybe i can handle psychological perversion better. most of the book is theorising about corpses and fucking, not so much fucking corpses. much less "i slid my tumescent pisser inside a rotting orifice oh yaeh yeah mm maggots crawling around my throbbing member oOOOhH". which i can handle.
i would put this book on the same level of ~perversion~ as Tampa by Alissa Nutting, maybe even a little lower. that was hard to get through. this book was funny and smart and the author uses sexy words that remind me of Nabokov. it was a smooth ride all along. it's nothing like i've ever read before. and you really should, cause a book about fucking corpses that makes you laugh? precious.