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It wasn't my stomach forcing that either, I read the infamous "lunch scene" while literally eating lunch lol, but it was my brain!

This situation we have here is like Bret Easton Ellis finding himself alone in a room full of women in 1991 just after you know what was published. Likewise if I allocated stars on how widely read I think a book ought to be, would this get five stars there? I don't really have an idea how to perform such an analysis, partly because I can see how the ingredients work together to produce the book's effects, and partly because I can't enumerate the kinds of extreme subjects, acts, and descriptions. The novel follows 25-year-old Steven, who dwells in a faceless American city with his sadistic mother ("the Hagbeast"), his only friend a crippled dog named Dog.Stephen lives holed up in his room, watching perfect lives on TV, dreaming of what it would be like to be safe, to be happy, to be loved and to be normal. Our protagonist Steven commits the most vile atrocities ever dreamed up, but the parade of repulsive supporting characters gives you a modicum of sympathy for Steven.

In visual art, it’s common for students to become interested in extremely violent or disturbing images, such as photos of car crash victims or medical deformities, and to try to use them in their work. Not like some fancy-pants "you just don't get it 🙄" bs either - there's a rawness and honesty that permeates the whole thing. In that simpler version of COWS, it might be easier to see what kinds of narrative work would need to be done to bring the nauseating elements into dialogue with the rest of the book. Deep down, I ABSOLUTELY LOVED "Cows", but on the surface, it was a bit hard to get past the shock factor! This one will absolutely not be for everyone, but I see now why it’s gained such a long and warranted life in the dark fiction community.Cripps, the plant foreman, assigns Steven to the grinder while loudly ridiculing everyone for being too weak to slaughter cows for eight-hours until it "sings to you of things beyond yourself.

During the course of this relatively short novel the main character (Steven) is involved with (whether as a player or a spectator) bestiality, coprophagia, rape, murder, and mutilation of such grand and graphic extremes that I cannot recommend this book to anyone.Grading on the scale of blood, guts, bodily fluids and perversions that would make the Marquis De Sade himself blush, I can safely say that it makes the likes of “Pretty Girls” and “The Troop” look like middle grade books. To me, Iain Banks’ The Wasp Factory fell flat because the protagonist’s sadism was justified with childhood trauma, one of the cheapest tricks in the book.



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