EXQUISITE CORPSE

O livro promete um conto sombrio sobre serial killers e abuso, mas entrega muito mais. Diversos temas são abordados, tabus e parafilias que te envolvem e induzem a pensar como o autor desejava.Fiquei de luto por ter acabado tão rápido.

This book has been on my list for quite some time and I am so happy to finally getting around to reading it. You really get captured right away and I read it in one sitting. Very dark Humor, beautiful writing style and a fast pace, combined with some quite disturbing imagery evoked by the artful descriptions. A twisted love story, if you will.

Llegó en perfectas condiciones.El libro, exquisito.

One of my favorite books of all time; it is difficult to sum up any other way.Many/most human beings will have serious issues with the content of this story: Other than de Sade's "Juliette: Vice Amply Rewarded" (and perhaps "120 Days of Sodom",.. and, certainly, my own personal writing), I have not read anything nearly so gratuitously graphic and obscene as this. There are explicitly detailed descriptions of rape, necrophilia, torture, murder, mutilation, and cannibalism... it is NOT AT ALL meant for casual consumers (only suitable for serious gore-hounds and/or anyone otherwise "into" any of the subject matter above).I didn't find the story to really have much of a developed plot, or to make any sort of philosophical or intelligent point, no matter what the intentions were in writing it. The writing is well done, however, and easy to read and follow. The story IS told from the perspective of a serial murderer, two actually, and also from some other minor (non-serial murdering) characters. It's basically a version of what could happen if Jeffrey Dahmer and Dennis Nilsen met (and Dahmer was rich , sadistic, and lived in New Orleans [because everything spooky happens there, I guess]). I hesitate to say that the serial murderers were believable as psychopaths (well, Jay maybe... but not all serial murderers are psychopathic anyway, and not every psychopath is a Robert Hare caricature). The characters were static, shallow, and predictable, and made no attempt to be likable or "sympathetic" to the audience (the latter is a bonus to me). I didn't appreciate the seemingly metaphysical nonsense around the beginning. The story was TOO SHORT, overall, to really make much of a point beyond just being a tragic, undeveloped "love" story.For me, the things which saved this book were the violence/gore and the novelty factors of a proudly irredeemable, unapologetically serial murdering narrator and the nearly erotomanic obsessive "love" between two serial murderers.Whoever it was who mentioned a film being made of this, I hope that could happen... I'd definitely watch it.

If you’re squeamish, this is NOT the book for you. If you’re not generally into horror, this is NOT the book for you. If you like happy endings this is NOT the book for you.So who is this book for? The horror lovers, the true crime fans, people who are looking for a proper gory read. And for those people, including myself, it’s AMAZING!The story centers around two serial killers, who serve as our main characters. They’re strangely likeable despite all the horrors they commit and that makes the story compelling and disgusting all at once. This makes it fascinating to read as you get a peek into the minds of these killers.There are lots of interesting and in depth scenes about their thoughts and psychology- along with lots of killing scenes, which to be honest are what you’re coming for if you’re reading a ‘splatterpunk’ book. And this book really delivers on that.The world of this story feels bleak, honest, and unfair. This isn’t a fun little romp to curl up with, and some chapters where HIV is discussed at length were uncomfortable. But I’m aware this was probably the intended feeling.Over all if you’re interested in gore, slasher stories, or crime stories in general? This is for you.TRIGGER WARNINGS:Basically everything