Supervert

Darkly funny and sometimes gross short stories.
There are characters who want to be cremated so they can be sprinkled into girls panties and have their clitoris as their tombstone.
Not really about banging corpses - more about the intermingling of sex and death.
I wasn’t titillated but I can see how others might find it erotic.
Trigger warning for 9/11

I have a pretty serious book crush on Supervert. Every now and then you come across an author who seems very much like he or she is on your wavelength, whose words seem like they could have come out of your own brain. Supervert is one of those authors for me. I felt a great amount of kinship reading a few of the stories in Necrophilia Variations (and yeah, when you say that, when you admit a book with this particular title spoke to you directly, you are making a certain statement about show more yourself and now that I am officially a harmless, middle-aged woman, I feel I am safe making any sort of admission I want). I found myself nodding a lot when reading Perversity Think Tank as the book tried to answer the question of “What is Perversity?”

If I didn’t know this before reading the book, I now understand that defining perversity can be very much akin to holding mercury but Supervert manages to nail down some interesting perspectives on the topic. Mostly, I walked away knowing what perversity isn’t, while marveling that there is another human being on the planet who had thought about the complete narcissism that is involved on reproductive incest, which I will discuss in a moment. You can read my entire review here: http://ireadoddbooks.com/perversity-think-tank-by-supervert/ show less

You pick up a book that is called Necrophilia Variations, and it is safe to assume all the stories are going to be about having sex with the dead. But Necrophilia Variations, while it does include tales of sex with dead people, is more a collection of stories of people dealing with the confluence between sex and death. The notion of le petit mort is an idea that is not new, yet the idea that the sex impulse is closely linked to death is hard for many to swallow. Though visionaries and poets, show more like Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Mirbeau, have tread this ground before, it is refreshing to see these sorts of ideas written by a modern for moderns. Heartbreaking, sickening, humorous – this short story collection pushes boundaries, and does not just push them for the sake of pushing, as I felt was the case when I read Bataille’s Story of the Eye (a book I am willing now to say I simply did not get and likely never will). You can read the rest of the review here: http://ireadoddbooks.com/?p=399 show less

Много прехвалена като супер духовита, авантгардна, шокираща, предизвикваща и какво ли още не. Поредното доказателство че хайпнатите книги са пълни говна.

Съдържа кратки есета/разкази в които темата е основно некрофилия (секс с трупове), но включват и екскременти, урина и show more други "шокиращи" теми инцидентно. Авторът, който изказва размислите и фантазиите си по темата, се опитва да бъде много ЕнтелектОален и над нещата и виждате ли колко съм оригинален и неконформист.

Не знам дали е заради дългогодишните ми тренировки във 4чан и интернета от 90-те и началото на 00-те като цяло, но на мен тия неща не са ми шокиращи по никакъв начин, а авторът с тая книга ми изглежда като маймуна, която се опитва да яде банани през задника си, но въпреки това не успява да е оригинална. show less