Cows

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I hope to have duped a few of the weak-stomached into reading, say, Peter Sotos or Pan Pantziarka, because they deserve being read). I will mention just one: the main character breaks off his mother’s teeth, fixes his anus over her bleeding mouth, and shits, forcing her to eat. Hailed around the world as a cult classic, Matthew Stokoe's novel set the bar for gritty urban horror.

Or where I had to simply absorb what I had read before I tried feeding my brain more images and more pain.

There is an apathy and numbness in even the most privileged of us that drives us to further instant dopamine hits from our social media and from our fentanyl-laced heroin. There were one-star rankings for people who were absolutely repulsed by it, and five-star rankings by folks who were absolutely exhilarated at having gotten through a book so brutal. When he is introduced to brutality through his job in a slaughterhouse, he senses a change in his directionless existence.

This situation we have here is like Bret Easton Ellis finding himself alone in a room full of women in 1991 just after you know what was published. That one day, he’ll have a home that is filled with happiness and some aspect of his life will have meaning. I foresee drooling adverbs and slippery tongues as antilymphocyte drugs are injected into the pericardium.The cow, part of a herd that has escaped the slaughter house and now lives in tunnels under the city streets, along with a herd of other cows, wants to convince Steven to help them stop Cripps by killing him. Why should the extremely violent, the extremely disturbing, the extremely repulsive need to be aestheticized? But the time the main character had bonked a few animals the supposedly shock tactics quickly become boring ,increasingly desperate and annoying. What I liked: ‘COWS’ is a story that follows our main character, Steven, who longs for acceptance in a world he’s unable to participate in.

I thoroughly enjoyed many of the witty and creative commentary from readers who felt compelled to talk about this book. Monstrously fat and murderously driven, referred to only as The Hagbeast, the mother employs her own unique version of dinnertime cuisine as she attempts to bring about the demise of her only child. After the roof got old, he started watching television obsessively, coming to believe that American sitcom families from the fifties led normal lives, and guaging happiness by those standards. When these three are used together, the effects are disorienting partly because they are mixed in ways that are hard to separate. COWS’ has become a cult classic, much in the way ‘A Serbian Tale’ has for the movie watching community.You can paint a canvas with shit, and in the right place at the right time, you'll find enough influential people to convince others of its genius that you have a following. In Cows, Steven’s violence is the result of his being born into hellish circumstances and his struggle to break free from them only makes the situation become all the more fucked up. Daisy (a left-leaning cow) : I believe it neatly encapsulates the human male infantile mindset, the fear and loathing of the mother, the horror of the female power of birth, of creation if you will, and the homo-erotic desire to be a man amongst men and to take charge of your manly destiny, all of which it appears has to be achieved by killing the mother figures. Original review: Look, I’m just gonna cut to the chase: This is, hands down, the most disgusting book I’ve ever read. It’s interesting how your TBR can conspire against you to bring similarly themed/content books together.