The Sluts
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Average rating4
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Ratings12
Average rating4
Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and told through the postings, emails, and conversations of several dozen unreliable narrators, The Sluts chronicles the evolution of one young escort's date with a satisfied client into a metafiction of pornography, lies, half-truths, and myth. Explicit, shocking, comical, and displaying the author's signature flair for blending structural complexity with direct, stylish, accessible language, The Sluts is Cooper's most transgressive novel since Frisk, and one of his most innovative works of fiction to date.
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As I read more and more I've made myself start writing reviews. My thought is sometimes these can be useful to others, other times not so much. I have nothing to add that hasn't been said already in other reviews. So I'll keep this sort, and more to trigger my own memory in the future.
It slogged a bit in the middle, I got quickly bored of the twist every page in a half. Pushing me out of immersion or caring would normally knock a star off, but I was enthralled from the start....and it's after the mid point we return to continuously increasing insanity and depravity of the start of the book, and each paragraph after just adds more and more intensity to it.
In my opinion, the best thing Cooper has written. Forming a coherent, engaging, and thoughtful story this style is a true achievement.
I think what i liked about this most is the format. This entire time, we are reading the entries off of a gay escort service website. It played out like a reddit mystery with thousands of strangers all around the world trying to solve it , but very, very dark. Very realistic portrayal of internet culture.
I have read quite a bit of extreme horror before, but the reason why i found this especially disturbing is because this lacks basic empathy, and humanity. I think about this book a lot.
If you've read and liked exquisite corpse by poppy z brite, you'll enjoy this one. It has a similar dark, gay underworld of sex, drugs, and blood.
