A review by marianina
Teleny (The Reverse of the Medal) by Oscar Wilde
3.0
Pfftt, I thought after reading a couple of reviews as I was about to start this acid trip. How bad can it be? I mean, I did buy it from the classics section of a bookshop.
So, turns out it was pretty intense. My boys wanted to write some edgy porn and so they did. Respect. Live your lives. It was graphic. It was chaotic. I took a big break at the two thirds of the book because I couldn't stop laughing every time he referred to genitals with a different name. And then, when I thought it was over, there's this person just casually shoving a bottle up his anus and dying shortly afterwards. So there was that.
I kind of remember reading the whole story behind this book years ago but I didn't make the connection when I bought it and I was so excited to read it because the author name just clicked. I finished the first chapter and things were kind of off (my man Camille ejaculated twice in a span of ten pages) so I just had to google it. Wikipedia: genre: novel;pornography. N i c e.
(The beginning scene was gold though and Hungarian music is great).
So, turns out it was pretty intense. My boys wanted to write some edgy porn and so they did. Respect. Live your lives. It was graphic. It was chaotic. I took a big break at the two thirds of the book because I couldn't stop laughing every time he referred to genitals with a different name. And then, when I thought it was over, there's this person just casually shoving a bottle up his anus and dying shortly afterwards. So there was that.
I kind of remember reading the whole story behind this book years ago but I didn't make the connection when I bought it and I was so excited to read it because the author name just clicked. I finished the first chapter and things were kind of off (my man Camille ejaculated twice in a span of ten pages) so I just had to google it. Wikipedia: genre: novel;pornography. N i c e.
(The beginning scene was gold though and Hungarian music is great).