Exquisite Corpse

Exquisite Corpse

1996 • 244 pages

Ratings24

Average rating3.7

15

(Old review, but did not post it here.) This book has a very bleak tone throughout its entirety.

It presents gay issues through immoral characters, it stays consistent in its themes. The lack of anyone having good morals is depressing, it still makes you still feel for some characters that horrible stuff happens, but yeah.

The narration is intentionally offensive a lot of the time since it's either narrated by a serial killer or an abusive boyfriend. There's a lot of flowery language around gore and glorification of abuse (as expected when the cast includes serial killers).

I struggle with my thoughts on it, I am not very familiar with gay scenes despite being gay myself, and this book features the worst aspects of it. Makes you feel you shouldn't trust anyone ever.

A lot of sadness about drugs, and HIV.

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