Its fairly short and was only $10 so I decided to pick it up. Ive been trying to get into reading again, so I went to my local bookstore and looked around and saw a book that I’ve seen mentioned on this sub a few times - Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. Other Subreddits that might interest you: Horror Award Nominees & Winners, 1975-2013 R/horrorlit's TOP 10 GREATEST NON-SUPERNATURAL HORROR NOVELS OF ALL TIME!!! R/horrorlit's TOP 10 GREATEST HORROR SHORT STORIES OF ALL TIME!!! R/horrorlit's TOP 10 GREATEST HORROR NOVELS OF ALL TIME!!!! If you would like to mask a potential spoiler, use the following format: (/spoiler)Īll times in ET (EST/EDT) unless otherwise noted. Spoiler tags are left to user discretion. Some rule violations may result in a temporary or permanent ban on the first strike. We do ask that you help us keep a high level of discourse by avoiding image-only posts, blog spam, surveys, plugging your own unpublished or self-published fiction, and linking to fundraisers or items for sale. No book is off-limits since horror is subjective. But perhaps seeing a psychiatrist is also a good idea.Here is your place to share your love or loathing for horror lit, but remember to be respectful.Ībusive comments and posts will get you banned but having a dissenting opinion is acceptable. If you want disgusting, depraved murder fantasies, then I can’t argue that this is the book for you. A typecast not to be ignored, when clearly the author seeks to obliterate any ‘feminine’ qualities. Exclusively against women – apart from a scene at the end when a group of gay men are beheaded.
‘The Slob’ is not extreme horror, it’s extreme violence. It’s not an experiment of the form, it’s not to achieve a single reaction (revulsion), it’s not clever. This isn’t like Chuck Palahniuk’s smartly written and graphic ‘ Guts’ – a short story that caused people to faint from the horror at book readings. Everything else in the book is simply filler from one torture scene to the next. Both women have their own dedicated rape scenes, and objectification is taken to the extreme with one woman’s “oral lips being sewn to her lady lips.” The amount of effort and time that is spent during these scenes describing everything in intimate detail – from The Slob’s genitals to the woman’s injuries – shows an obsessive approach to this violence. They try to escape, and find even more corpses of women in a barn, each with their own ‘imaginative injuries’. At first we experience her own destruction, and then he moves onto her ‘roommate’ who is similarly subjected. Her child is aborted in a way that I can’t even describe here. The entire plot is her entering the house of The Slob, and then being tortured, brutalised, humiliated, and sexually assaulted in the most horrific ways.
His protagonist is a female vacuum saleswoman who throughout only seems to care only about her attractiveness to her husband (after being horrifically violated she returns to her partner only to reveal her biggest concern just a few weeks later – her intimacy issues: “ Ever since I was repeatedly raped and assaulted by The Slob, I could never find my mood again.” I wonder why the fuck not.) But then again, there isn’t much outside of the extreme horror scenes. Everything else is an afterthought, with so little effort put into the surrounding plot, language or story elements that it reads like two different authors. It is clear that the author writes only for the personal pleasure of extreme, revolting horror. The reviews on his listing read like snuff site comments: “Heck, this is as disturbing as it gets” “At times I was shocked at what I was reading and didn’t think anyone would ever go this far in a book” “Degradation, humiliation, endless violence and revulsion on a grand scale, all the way to the bitter sweet ending.” That said, I imagine that there are some extreme horror novels that are well written – and this is anything but. With seemingly thousands of people looking for the most extreme in extreme horror, he is a people pleaser. This review will likely be unpopular, and I can give Beauregard his due.
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There’s no proof of age required to download or read this book, and there fucking should be. For this reason and none other, I dragged myself through it and tried to suspend belief, hold in my stomach contents, and resist the urge to set fire to the book. I was so shocked and disgusted by this book that I knew I had to review it (to warn people off), but it’s not fair to the author to do that without reading the whole work.
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