Doing god's work as usual Ben. Always enjoyable hearing you roast a good stinker.
@BookShore
2 жыл бұрын
I'm trying to avoid these stinkers swear to God lol
@atheistsince1210
Жыл бұрын
I was hoping it was similar to his Tomb of 500,000 Soldiers I bought a copy of that goldmine over 25 years ago . The author is righteously famous the context of the novel is the horrors of the Algerian Guerilla War .
@Shulzybecketter
2 ай бұрын
The reviewer doesn't understand the book is not intended to be erotic and Guyotat described his work as pornographic without eroticism.
@seintzeit
Жыл бұрын
The reviewer misses the point. The book is not about sex....
@nadominhoca
Жыл бұрын
Hey Ben, I would gladly buy your English copy of the book. Interested in selling it (assuming you still have it)?!??
@StoryoftheEye
9 ай бұрын
Superb introduction, hah.
@clemensetz
2 жыл бұрын
Got extremely bored by Eden Eden Eden and Tomb for 500.000 soldiers - but there is actually one really readable, relatable and surprisingly tender book by Guyotat called Coma
@BookShore
2 жыл бұрын
I might check out the coma but definitely avoiding the others
@thetrueandhonesttyreesneed1524
2 жыл бұрын
The Aristocrats!
@levitybooks3952
2 жыл бұрын
lol sex scenes in popular fiction are painful enough to read, that excerpt you recited sounded almost on par with the My Immortal fanfic. I like books like Rabbit, Run or American Psycho where it's mildly transgressive but kinda believable and relatable with a message, all this 'deep end' transgressive stuff to me feels like a thought dump of urges and violence that I don't get much out of reading? Probably just me though as I can't even really get with horror as a genre, it's all a bit too intense for me!
@shelf-regulatingsystem1323
2 жыл бұрын
Sorry to say but the weight lifting book sounds great. 144 pages, awful abstract Dalkey Archives cover, probably called something like Lunk Alarm : you're telling me this wouldn't bang? Anyway, thank you for panning a rare book, always a relief to see a fetish object cut down to size. I've got Wow, That's A Lot Of Dead Soldiers (or whatever) by this guy and I find it compelling enough a paragraph at a time but never read it through so I can definitely see where you're coming from
@BookShore
2 жыл бұрын
How do I ban you 🤣 yea it's an interesting thing. I wonder if people promote the idea of the book more than the actual book
@xgryphenx
2 жыл бұрын
There is another translation that vauxhall&co did that is better!
@andersgudru3762
2 жыл бұрын
Hrrmm...video actually made me curious and got me thinking that I'll have to get a copy (in english translation). Why? Because of the obvious clash between your off-putting very negative review and my knowledge about all the French writers, poets, artists, philosophers, academics etc etc etc etc who stood up for Guyotat when his book was banned. I just have to get a chance to make up my own judgment.
@BookShore
2 жыл бұрын
I honestly think they pushed it just because it was being censored
@andersgudru3762
2 жыл бұрын
@@BookShore Maybe you're right, but i should try to get a copy and read the book to make up my own opinion. I'll look if David Macey says anything about Guyotat in his biography of Michel Foucault.
@andersgudru3762
2 жыл бұрын
Well Macey does mention Guyotat on a couple of pages and also gives a long quotation from Foucault on the view of sexuality and individuality in Guyotat. But as I said before - I haven't read anything by Guyotat...
@Stoney-Jacksman
Жыл бұрын
Make up your own mind, instead of worshiping the opinion of french writers, poets, philosophers yada yada yada. Dont be a generic do*che.
@Echoesoflostlibraries
2 жыл бұрын
Got him banned for writing horrible prose. Glad you're reading this so we don't have to :D Always fun watching tho, quality of the book be damned.
@BookShore
2 жыл бұрын
I've been doing that a lot lately 🤣
@modernmyth9050
Жыл бұрын
Couldn't finish it and not because of its subject matter. One of the most pretentious screeds I've ever come across 1/10
@BookShore
Жыл бұрын
This one isn't worth finishing to be honest
@Stoney-Jacksman
Жыл бұрын
The nasty French. I suggest 'Wretched of the earth' by the amazing 'Frantz Fanon'. thanks for the honest review..many people love things just because others have branded it as 'shocking' etc.
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