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One point many other reviewers haven't hit on yet is that the obvious analogy of the fictitious "slut" is J.T. LeRoy, the Cooper protege and author recently discovered to be a middle-aged woman that had tricked the publishing industry with an elaborately crafted guise of a teen runaway-turned-prostitute. The story of LeRoy and Sluts both highlight the ease in which "lives" can be created in our current era - particularly lives that appeal to certain gay men's fantasies of helpless young men. I a
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This is a page turner masterpiece. Incredibly suspensful in a format that I find questionable at first - but just got sucked into it. Dennis Cooper I think is probably one of the most interesting living authors at this moment.
He really looks at the horror and as a reader you can either be offended or charmed by his prose, which is direct yet poetic at the same time. This is really a remarkable and well-thought out little thriller of sorts. In other words: Love It!
He really looks at the horror and as a reader you can either be offended or charmed by his prose, which is direct yet poetic at the same time. This is really a remarkable and well-thought out little thriller of sorts. In other words: Love It!
still processing this one. a swift, vile read. the layers of mystery & lies surrounding the murder of one gay male escort and the identity and whereabouts of another make me wonder if cooper was at all in on the j.t. leroy scam -- he wrote the novel before the scandal broke and the similarities between the situations of each are enough to warrant suspicion.
extremely graphically violent, although much of the violence is fantasy. but all fiction is fantasy, right? well -- in this book, everything ...more
extremely graphically violent, although much of the violence is fantasy. but all fiction is fantasy, right? well -- in this book, everything ...more
Aside from the story itself -- which definitely has its own scary merit (seriously seriously horrific, imaginative, and nightmarish but I've commented on that in reviews of other Dennis Cooper books so I won't repeat myself) -- what I really appreciate about The Sluts is the experimentation with the literary form in the internet age. I'm sure it will seem embarrassingly out of date in no time whatsoever, but the novel uses the device of internet postings to tell this crazy typical-Dennis Cooper
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I don’t know why I read the whole thing. It was disturbing. I hope it was social commentary
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