The Sluts

"So, I did enjoy the begging of this book. I did expect it to lean more into the death and destruction as opposed to the graphic depictions of sex. I DNF’d this because the story got too confusing and I had to keep re-reading to remember who was who. That being said, the parts I did read, (I read over half of the book,) gave me a TON of anxiety and made me VERY uncomfortable. If you wanna see how far you can push your limits of comfort, this will be the one to do it."

"It’s a gazillion pages of creepy old men describing a young man in reviews. And then the reviews just start to repeat themselves and you get fatigued from the same gruesome scenes. Over. And over. And over again."

"the most complex and deliberate plot ive ever read. my book is two times thicker because of all the pages i marked. p*dophilia is just something i cant handle in a book. i love this book, but some topics are too triggering and too difficult to read in this format that feels so personal and so haunting. i know this is intentional, and a major point of the book, but it really just felt like too much, specifically because of the taped scene around the halfway mark. im glad i didnt mark it a DNF, because it was only one brief scene, but it was just a lot. i felt like the last third (or maybe half) of the book, it got old. you can only go so far with the intrigue of not knowing what's real and what's fake before it gets dull and boring. maybe i would've felt differently if i had read the whole thing in a shorter period of time, but it was difficult to continue when it started getting monotonous. i cannot recommend this book to anyone. i will never read it again. but it was really well thought out and a fun (?) read"

"i’m gonna be honest, even giving this book a rating of any kind feels wrong. dennis cooper’s writing style appeals to me, but holy **** is this book extreme. you’ve got men with murder kinks who want to make snuff films with other men. what the ****. and the whole plot with brad is just…wow. mr. cooper’s insane."

"I don’t think i’ve ever read a book that confused and disgusted me as much as this one. Though that doesn’t mean I didn’t like it. Even with the confusion, this book made me feel a ton of emotions. I don’t know whether to feel bad or not for the characters in this book especially Thad. I do find it kind of silly that there is Thad and Brad. One of the very few little goofy things I found funny in this book. Overall, I did like it but some parts made me feel gross."

"weird and in one scene i almsot puked, but interesting neverhteless"