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The Tokyo Trilogy #1
Tokyo Sodom
"Brilliant, profound, provocative."- The Times Shortly before the destruction of Tokyo by a tsunami, gorgeous Angeliko Slavsko flies into the city to perpetrate an outrageous series of sexual provocations to be projected from every image-screen on Tokyo's illuminated avenues. Aided by a gang of ecstasy-crazed Tokyo girls, Angeliko cuts a swath through the city's subterranea, fucking a vast array of its most extreme denizens before a showdown with Japan's all-powerful tech-conglomerates in a detonating climax of revolutionary sex and terminal urban disaster. Like a mutant fusion of de Sade and J.G. Ballard, Tokyo Sodom inaugurates a new kind of contemporary sex writing. With its relentless, neon-fired thrust toward ecstatic annihilation, Tokyo Sodom is a carnal cataclysm, the first truly original erotic novel of the twenty-first century.
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First published September 11, 2013
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August 4, 2008
Imagine J.G. Ballard and William Gibson got together to collaborate on a pornographic Cyberpunk-ish novel. Imagine that they wrote it in Japanese and then had it translated into English. That’s what this book reminds me of.
In this extreme work, we encounter Japanese neo-fascists, mega-consumerism, a harsh noise musician, perverted Buddhist monks, coprophagia, an Aum Shinrikyo type cult, digital celebrities, and lots of sodomy.
There is gratuitous use of sexual slang words that will no doubt annoy a lot of people. But that repetition seems to have a purpose. It almost reads like a satire of pornographic literature with the backdrop of a future of ultra-consumerism and constant earthquakes. The author also slips in many Japanese subcultures which are pretty fascinating, too.
At first the stilted and unrealistic dialogue annoyed me but then I realized that it sounded like it was translated from a different language (but it wasn’t). So if you read it like that, it ceases to be annoying and it becomes fascinating.
One weird thing about this book is that almost every male inside seems to be extremely well-endowed. Perhaps another satirical element?
If you like extreme literature of a sexual and philosophical nature, get this book. Fans of De Sade take note.
In this extreme work, we encounter Japanese neo-fascists, mega-consumerism, a harsh noise musician, perverted Buddhist monks, coprophagia, an Aum Shinrikyo type cult, digital celebrities, and lots of sodomy.
There is gratuitous use of sexual slang words that will no doubt annoy a lot of people. But that repetition seems to have a purpose. It almost reads like a satire of pornographic literature with the backdrop of a future of ultra-consumerism and constant earthquakes. The author also slips in many Japanese subcultures which are pretty fascinating, too.
At first the stilted and unrealistic dialogue annoyed me but then I realized that it sounded like it was translated from a different language (but it wasn’t). So if you read it like that, it ceases to be annoying and it becomes fascinating.
One weird thing about this book is that almost every male inside seems to be extremely well-endowed. Perhaps another satirical element?
If you like extreme literature of a sexual and philosophical nature, get this book. Fans of De Sade take note.
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