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The Marbled Swarm (2011)

by Dennis Cooper(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0061715638 (ISBN13: 9780061715631)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Harper Perennial

review 1: i don't know if this is my favorite of DC's stuff (that would probably be 'guide'), but this book blows my mind in ways i didn't know ink on paper could. i've read it like thirty times, each time saying that i'm going to pay attention and solve the mystery laid out, but everything in the book is so elegantly told that i end up swept away by the book and so amazed at the things he does with words that i forget to look for clues.
review 2: I have now read nine of Dennis Cooper's books. I liked the first five. After reading "The Sluts" (my eighth), which physically nauseated and, in the end, angered me, as there was no catharsis for either the main character or the reader, I swore off reading any more of his books. Unfortunately I did not keep my promise. "The Mar... morebled Swarm" is his worst and is nearly unreadable. If this is his way of emulating de Sade and (Heaven help us!) Robbe-Grillet, he has failed miserably. In the future I suggest he masturbate to his fantasies and spare his readers and this former fan any more of his novels. less

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