allthelovers 's review for:

Frisk by Dennis Cooper

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listen i get what he was trying to do but that might be the first time i ever had to actually skip parts of a book… pretty sure i got this from online recommendations for disturbing literature and this definitely lived up to that expectation. makes most sense as a part of the edgy 90s scene alongside gregg araki (whos much tamer) and bret easton ellis. i like araki because i sense a heart pumping in all his work but ellis and cooper seem so driven by this cold hollow nihilism— perhaps they’re attempting to critique it but there isn’t enough light there for me to latch onto.