Exquisite Corpse

so i really loved the discussion and metaphors for what it's like to be gay dealing with HIV specifically during the AIDs epidemic. I also adored the writing in this beyond belief but on the other hand i was hella bored throughout this story even though it's less than 250 pages and the actual plot outside of the synopsis did not start until about 65% in which is just too slow for me. i also don't enjoy being in men's heads this much but i'm not faulting the book for that. and the rush limbaugh aspect was a choice and not one i liked lol. overall there was things i liked and those i didn't. 

> Despite certain reviews suggesting this book would be too much to handle or so detestable that saying you enjoyed it/liked it would inadvertently guarantee ostracization from most of society, I found this read to be rather disappointing for my taste (not to say I wanted to be destroyed as I was anticipating). Of course, your experience may vary. Save for a few nauseating passages, the narrative was far from unbearable and rather very engaging and tasteful thanks to its often purple (though not smothering) prose; additionally, the especially disturbing passages, I thought, were balanced out nicely by otherwise tamed and intellectual commentary, even if said commentary was bleak as black. Bold, vivid, and cautionary are just a few superlatives I'd award this project, and my morbid curiosity and interest in the macabre and nihilistic world of fiction Brite embraces unabashedly piqued and steadied throughout this exquisite experience, indeed. While not viscerally too much to stomach, Brite did successfully heighten a certain anxiety of mine to a paranoiac level of fear that I'd never felt (nor thought I'd ever feel) about everyday people around you. All I'm gonna say is: you never really know someone completely.