Exquisite Corpse

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Lina Dahlstrom is beautiful but poor and when tests show that she has tuberculosis it seems that all hope is lost. Her husband and family cannot afford the fees to get Lina the healthcare that she needs. Then along comes Dr Dance who claims he can cure Lina and that he will do it for free. Linas sister Greta is all for it at first but then becomes wary of Dr Dance. Linas husband Petter outright refuses and states that the free hospital will help his wife. As Lina becomes more unwell Petter disappears. Lina agrees to the treatment that Dr Dance is offering but becomes more unwell and when news comes regarding Petters disappearance Lina finally succumbs to the illness. Dr Dance does not take this well and he becomes more obsessed than ever….. I read this book in staves with The Pigeonhole online book club, other readers and the author. It was a pleasure and I am truly grateful. The additional content and comments that Maryam provided enhanced this unique experience.

If the entire book had been written from the doctor's point of view then it would have been closer to Frankenstein and perhaps been mostly an examination of how self-delusion can impact lives. I'm glad it wasn't, because this was the part I found the most difficult to read. The doctor is obviously suffering from some sort of mental health issues, but this isn't offered as an excuse or otherwise emphasized. If you have a thing for serial killers and 'villain gets the boy/the girl', then read this one!!!! 'The love of my life'? HAHAHAA!!! Four characters, each with their own POV, make up this little book of gore and death. It begins with Andrew's story, a necrophiliac serial killer from London. We follow him as he shrewdly escapes prison and makes his way to New Orleans to start over. Next, it's Tran and Luke, an estranged gay couple dealing with the aftermath of an HIV diagnosis and renouncement from a very traditional Vietnamese family. Last is Jay, an attractive and very sophisticated cannibal who preys on young tourists. We follow them separately for about sixty percent of the story (in a rather annoying POV switch) until inevitably their worlds collide, and lust and bloody carnage ensues. Almost everything was there to make this a really captivating story. Blood, guts, serious perversions, and even unrequited love. The descriptions of the cannibalism and necrophilia were long and drawn out, good nasty fun.Perciò, se splatter è, di certo non è uno splatter a vuoto, fine a se stesso, ma qualcosa che, a mio avviso, seppur nella sua ripugnanza, vuole lanciare un messaggio. Luke Ransom : AIDS-infected homosexual junkie, aspiring misanthrope, moron, pirate radio personality, author, and a grown man with infantile emotional development. As his on-air alter ego of Lush Rimbaud, Luke manages to put into summation everything I admittedly don’t like about gay culture during his rants, poor ‘victim’ of the epidemic that he is. You can take the same folded and cut piece of paper and hand it to one kid with a pencil. That kid will draw the figure on the middle inside. Cover that up with the right flaps, and the second kid draws the figure on the outside of the right flaps. The third kid will draw their figure on the outside of the left flaps. Hilarity will ensue. While living in Paris (1951-1958) he began his career as a serious writer, composing such works as the collection of short stories, Here Be Dragons (1955) and his first novel, Jamie Is My Heart's Desire (1956). During this time, Chester also met and began a relationship with an Israeli pianist, Arthur, with whom he lived in Paris and, for a short time, in New York City. While in Paris, Chester befriended other literary figures, such as Susan Sontag, James Baldwin, and Princess Marguerite Caetani.

I'll get the ball rolling with a few words, randomly copied and pasted from a book I've written. Then it's up to you to add the next line, and the next, and the one after that. We'll restrict ourselves to two simple rules: no more than a paragraph from anone (around 40 words, but feel free to just put five or 10 or one if that's what you want), and try not to be influenced too much by what you've read. In fact, don't read until you've written. I never get into books like these, I mean I didn't know that these sort of stories are my thing. Well, I mean: To escaped serial killer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art to ever exist. After feigning his own death to escape from a life sentence in prison, he makes his way to America with the intention of bringing his art to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, he inadvertently joins forces with Jay, a dissolute playboy. They set their sights on a young Vietnamese-American runaway, whom they deem to be the perfect victim. An orgy of blood and madness ensues. Perhaps this would be a good point to say choose this book carefully? In this time of trigger warnings, this book has them all. Be warned. All that violence, homosexual sex, cannibalism and extreme horror are here; the warnings are true. Poppy Z. Brite (born Melissa Ann Brite, now going by Billy Martin) is an American author born in New Orleans, Louisiana.Surrealists immediately took to the collaborative game. Many of the movement’s practitioners played it regularly, almost addicted to the automatic drawing it inspired. Naked Came the Stranger is a 1969 erotic novel written as a literary hoax to parody American literary trends of the time. The credited author is the fictive "Penelope Ashe", though it was written by twenty-four journalists led by Mike McGrady, with each author writing a chapter without any knowledge of what the others had written.