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A review by eiderweek
Frisk by Dennis Cooper
1.0
I didn't like Closer, and I didn't realistically expect I would like this either. I'm not at all surprised with its content, it is exactly what one would expect after having read Closer and this book's blurb.
This is "serious literature" and I understand that there is more thought put into this than what I drew out, though I find it hard to picture having a substantially different experience, or appreciating it overly highly, with a bit more effort.
I did like / approve of / not dislike some elements of the ending a bit.
I suppose what made me read this book, and which will quite likely lead to me reading the rest of his books, is that Dennis Cooper is a kind of intriguing figure, just in terms of being ridiculously well connected with everyone in the world that's famous??? I don't even know anything else about him besides that. But it's like comical. He has so many friendsd everyone who is anyone is friends with Dennis Cooper. (Also "The Sluts" was a really good book but so much of that was in the format. Possibly I'd be better off giving God Jr a shot rather than the next George Miles thing, as something a bit different)
Also, this is a horror novel, and it is disturbing, but the object of my fear was always Denis Cooper, rather than the story itself. It is not a book that one can easily relate to / care for the characters of, by nature. Characters are broadly unsympathetic (particularly those with any serious presence in the book), and there are a lot of layers of fiction and lies that make probably most sentences not directly pinnable down as a "fact" as to the main story of the book.
This is "serious literature" and I understand that there is more thought put into this than what I drew out, though I find it hard to picture having a substantially different experience, or appreciating it overly highly, with a bit more effort.
I did like / approve of / not dislike some elements of the ending a bit.
I suppose what made me read this book, and which will quite likely lead to me reading the rest of his books, is that Dennis Cooper is a kind of intriguing figure, just in terms of being ridiculously well connected with everyone in the world that's famous??? I don't even know anything else about him besides that. But it's like comical. He has so many friendsd everyone who is anyone is friends with Dennis Cooper. (Also "The Sluts" was a really good book but so much of that was in the format. Possibly I'd be better off giving God Jr a shot rather than the next George Miles thing, as something a bit different)
Also, this is a horror novel, and it is disturbing, but the object of my fear was always Denis Cooper, rather than the story itself. It is not a book that one can easily relate to / care for the characters of, by nature. Characters are broadly unsympathetic (particularly those with any serious presence in the book), and there are a lot of layers of fiction and lies that make probably most sentences not directly pinnable down as a "fact" as to the main story of the book.