Pierre Guyotat - Eden eden eden
One of those books which seem cool when you hear of it but once you get it you really cant get into it. Its a lot of sex, theres lots of murder but that is it, basically. There are no characters, there is no real place, no story, nothing with which you could make any sort of emotional connection to the things happening in the book. As such, I find myself struggling to go through it. For me it ends up being 'He puts penis in the boys butt and grabs the boys arms and then he spurts jissom (the translation knows only one word for sperm, jissom)' and so forth. Also, the translator uses only single word for single thing, like I mentioned in the parenthesis, making it even more of a bore to read. I am not completely sidelining him as an author but when I get around to it, I think I'll read some of his later material.
Hubert Selby - Last Exit To Brooklyn
On other hand, this is the kind of book I find very hard to put down. Extremely well written stories of violence, sex, degeneration. Life in brooklyn at the outskirts of society and all that entails with it. Pages packed with every sort of loser you can imagine and their dismal lives that revolve around drugs, sex and violence. His writing technique is fucking excellent and makes it a joy to read.
Jean Genet - Thieve's Journal
I think I need to get the Madonna of Flowers because this one feels much too meandering to my tastes. Lots of descriptions of criminal in Genets worshipping matter but then nothing much happens. Genet wanders around the europe, thieving and begging yet despite that, there isn't much anything interesting happening in his life. Lot's of flowery descriptions of things but those do little to help. I had much higher hopes for this work. I still admire his philosophy and his approach to life in its complete blasphemy. I just wish that he would done better job at evoking it in this writing of his.
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
Book that I will probably re-read until I die. Nearly perfect novel. There isn't much to say that hasn't been said about it yet. Anyone into reading fiction should read this one.
