What're your thoughts? I love Swans so I'm fascinated by it, but it's rather expensive.
Has anybody here read this?
Hunter Scott
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Landon Sanchez
How much is it? The only time I've heard it talked about on here was through this chart. I also like Swans but am hesitant to see if Gira's talent in songwriting and lyricism can be translated to prose in case its shit.
Ian Edwards
Haven't read it but I can't imagine it would meet your expectations. Can't find any .pdfs?? I would like to read it too.
Andrew Collins
cheapest used copy is about 40 dollars. It's out of print.
Carter Young
Eli Roberts
also this is a weird list. yeah, Ligotti is spooky, but someone like Sotos is stomach churning.
Justin Scott
Reading it now OP. I'll be done before I head out for a drink.
Jose Collins
I've read it all, and it's still one of my favorite books of all time.
Vulvic Los Angeles is my favorite story from there (though I Am An Infant, I Worship Him is probably the most well known as Gira did a spoken word tape of it and the first paragraph used to be used as copypasta on /mu/ back in the day.), but they're all great.
The book is in two parts, the first is short stories, the second on are more like vignettes, very short stories, and prose poems. Most people don't like the second part as much but i think it's just as good, and gave me some incredibly memorable prose like A Game, A Screw, The Whore Boy, and many others.
Ligotti and Sotos are disturbing in completely different ways. Ligotti makes reality itself look like a living a nightmare while Sotos makes the reader see pieces of what is commonly seen as the most depraved pornography around in normal media and ourselves. Comparing them is comparing apples to oranges.
Unless disturbing to you just means gross, in which case just look for splatterpunk or something, though i don't think any of that hold actual merit.
The prose is legit fantastic, it's impressive how he can make such terse prose so nerve racking and nauseating.
Jaxon Price
They're both disturbing in different ways, but still disturbing both of them.
Landon Reed
Started reading it. I'm finding it quite soothing, the first two stories anyway. It's quite a nice read so far.
Gira uses similes too often though, I think I've come across the word like 20 times now.