anicea's review
4.0
I have read and will continue to read everything by Joey Comeau. While not all the stories in this book were consistently great, he always manages to pull it back with a stellar moment like with the story "The Meteor," which moved me to the point where I had to take a couple minutes, just to process. Well done, Joey Comeau, AGAIN.
ectoplasmeg's review
5.0
This book is slightly bizarre (okay, quite bizarre) and will probably make you feel a bit dirty. But I still definitely tell everyone to read it. One two three four five six seven eight is definitely my favorite story in the book.
tvil's review
4.0
In this collection of erotic short stories, Joey Comeau once again shows that he’s one of the best contemporary short fiction writers, although a few of the stories here were a little too obtuse/vague/abstract (not sure which) for me. Even for him, this was a bunch of very sexually explicit stories, bordering on pornographic. There’s heterosexual sex with both male and female main characters and homosexual sex also with males and females, and perhaps a few too many stories about fetishes that are weird for weirdness’s sake. I was happy to see both mathematics and chess pop up, two hobbies I share with the author.
heykellyjensen's review
What the hell?
(That's a good reaction.)
Most of this collection of short stories I spent totally blushing then counting the pages because I didn't really want them to end because seriously, where could they POSSIBLY go that that they didn't already go? heh.
The description of the book is also the summary, much like it is for "Biblecamp Blood Bath." This one's is simply "This is a book of dirty stories. They are weird and fun and often bewildering, like sex itself." There is a lot going on in the stories. Lots of math, actually. Which is funny because I, too, equate math with weird, fun, and bewildering. It works.
My favorite story is "edith." It's pretty powerful.
(That's a good reaction.)
Most of this collection of short stories I spent totally blushing then counting the pages because I didn't really want them to end because seriously, where could they POSSIBLY go that that they didn't already go? heh.
The description of the book is also the summary, much like it is for "Biblecamp Blood Bath." This one's is simply "This is a book of dirty stories. They are weird and fun and often bewildering, like sex itself." There is a lot going on in the stories. Lots of math, actually. Which is funny because I, too, equate math with weird, fun, and bewildering. It works.
My favorite story is "edith." It's pretty powerful.
lolaleviathan's review
5.0
there is just no one who uses words or thinks thoughts like Joey Comeau. as somebody on Autostraddle once wrote, Comeau's writing is queer in every sense of the word. I like A Softer World, but I think he's even better at longer-form writing. you could think of this book as erotica, maybe, in that all the stories have sex in them. but they also have math and drama and tension and office supply stores and meteor showers and juvenile delinquents. oh, and time travelling to try to seduce Patricia Highsmith. hello.
calorama's review
3.0
it's awkward and felt incomplete in a lot of places but it is also 80 pages of short smut stories by one of the creators of "a softer world" so i don't know what i expected
jasminenoack's review
4.0
you know that joke about how the faces men make during orgasm are god's practical joke, this book is like a longer version of that joke.
penguinsquack's review
4.0
This book is about sex and relationships.
It's not sexy or romantic.
It's quirky and weird and real.
This book shows sex for what it is.
It shows how people are different and turned on by different things.
It's not one of my thousand romance novels where sex is the coming together of a great and powerful love.
It's people, doing what they lust.
It's not sexy or romantic.
It's quirky and weird and real.
This book shows sex for what it is.
It shows how people are different and turned on by different things.
It's not one of my thousand romance novels where sex is the coming together of a great and powerful love.
It's people, doing what they lust.