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Mel
May 04, 2013 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: lgbtqia, read-in-2013
It is hard for me to rate this book. I vacillated between hating this and loving it. I can't in good conscious really say that I liked this but I also can't give it only two stars. I feel that it was written really well. There were parts that I really liked and parts I could not stand. Maybe that was the point. Anyway, proceed with caution as this is not for the faint of heart. It is pornography in the extreme and pushes the boundaries right over the edge of what is acceptable and not. I gave it ...more
Megan
Dec 24, 2007 rated it really liked it
i know i should have gone to quickies and been sociable but instead i had to finish this book.
i read this when i was 22 maybe and had no context for it at all. i am much more well read now and it is still gruesomely captivating (and cleverly structured) (and oh man - the SPACED chapter's pov experimentation!!!) if less shocking - some of the dazzle has worn off i think now that it's less beyond me.
it amazes me that i have always been interested in the things that i am interested in. why on eart
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Zweegas
Dec 08, 2007 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition

Frisk and The Sluts are my two favorite Dennis Cooper books, but I feel like they both put me through a lot of trauma then let me down at the end.
Charles
Nov 14, 2007 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Megan
Dec 24, 2007 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
John
Jun 17, 2008 rated it it was amazing
Borden
Jul 28, 2008 marked it as to-read
Larry-bob Roberts
Oct 09, 2008 rated it it was amazing
Michael
Nov 04, 2008 rated it did not like it
Charlie Smith
Apr 01, 2009 rated it really liked it
Joanna
Apr 30, 2009 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: queer, raunch, 1990s, amurika
Marty Webb
Jul 06, 2009 rated it really liked it
Luna Solaris
Dec 18, 2009 marked it as to-read
Robert Dunbar
Jun 12, 2010 rated it really liked it
Vince Liaguno
Aug 27, 2010 rated it really liked it
Shawn
Aug 24, 2012 rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fiction, glbt
James
Sep 26, 2012 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: know-when-read, lgb
Matthew
Jan 03, 2021 rated it really liked it
Shelves: mm-fiction
Tosh
Mar 21, 2022 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: books-bought