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sethwr's review
3.0
when i found out vaginal davis had a piece of hers featured in this book i was elated. when i found out karen finley contributed AND edited i was over the moon. i’m a huge fan of both provocateurs and was eager to read more of their work. my reactions to both pieces is pretty evocative of my overall experience with this collection. some great and some bad. davis’s piece was exceptional. delivering a great deal of wit and subversion. finery’s piece was a huge let-down. being boring and uninspired. the rest of the pieces fell into either camp, which really suprises me in retrospect. i’m sure there’s a few that might fall in the middle but when i’m recollecting 34 stories i don’t really have the capacity to split hairs.
the poetry was all bad, either way to purple or way to pretentious. some stories were just not well written, failing in its momentum, tone, characters, or all three.
the wallace shawn piece was hilarious. john waters and richard lewis were also great contributors. i forgot who but there was a wonderful non-fiction piece about a doctor in the 90s who performed sex change operations on a great deal of trans women, leaving either fine, mangled, or dead.
i would easily recommend this to an erotica fan, especially if you like your writing bizarre like i do. i just would caution that a lot of the pieces here are filler. but the home-runs really nail it.
the poetry was all bad, either way to purple or way to pretentious. some stories were just not well written, failing in its momentum, tone, characters, or all three.
the wallace shawn piece was hilarious. john waters and richard lewis were also great contributors. i forgot who but there was a wonderful non-fiction piece about a doctor in the 90s who performed sex change operations on a great deal of trans women, leaving either fine, mangled, or dead.
i would easily recommend this to an erotica fan, especially if you like your writing bizarre like i do. i just would caution that a lot of the pieces here are filler. but the home-runs really nail it.
gwimo's review
2.0
I bought this book for the Hubert Selby, Jr. story. The rest of the works are poorly written. Sadly, I feel bad for spending so much money on the book.
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