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On the outside, Sam has it all: money, good-looks, youth. His life is fueled by an endless supply of drugs, alcohol, sex--anything and everything to keep his mind off of what he struggles to keep hidden away: a troubled past as well as recurring disturbing psychotic visions. Strange things begin to happen to Sam causing his diagnosed anxiety to grow into paranoia. To make things worse, brutally mutilated bodies are being discovered around the city and no one seems to care.
Experiencing what it is to come full-fledge into adulthood–love, lust, loss, rejection, denial–Sam realizes money and good looks aren’t everything and sometimes what you're running from is closer than you think.
Experiencing what it is to come full-fledge into adulthood–love, lust, loss, rejection, denial–Sam realizes money and good looks aren’t everything and sometimes what you're running from is closer than you think.
171 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 23, 2013
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Matt Micheli
20 books110 followersMatt Micheli is a horror and dark-fiction writer out of New Braunfels, TX, author of The White, Two Minutes with the Devil, and Pornageddon. He has several fiction and non-fiction pieces featured in various magazines and anthologies and is a multi-contributor to This is Horror, Horror Sleaze Trash, and Horror Tree. A loving husband and father to a daughter and Husky dogs, he spends his days dabbling in domestication and his nights in Tequila, always searching for the next great story.
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May 14, 2015
I bailed at the 50% mark after I'd put it down twice previously. I kept hoping Smut would redeem itself. Nope. I finally had enough of some of the most unlikeable people to grace the pages of an e-book. Sam, just go away.
I know there's a good story in here but it's buried under the descriptions of moving, sitting, standing, getting into the truck, another bump of blow, turning the engine on.... The repetition of everyone wanting to fuck Sam and the same partying, drugs, partying, fucking, girls, fucking, partying, alcohol, 'that girl is eye-fucking me, I'm sooo good looking'.... wash, rinse, fucking repeat. What a waste of a good concept.
I know there's a good story in here but it's buried under the descriptions of moving, sitting, standing, getting into the truck, another bump of blow, turning the engine on.... The repetition of everyone wanting to fuck Sam and the same partying, drugs, partying, fucking, girls, fucking, partying, alcohol, 'that girl is eye-fucking me, I'm sooo good looking'.... wash, rinse, fucking repeat. What a waste of a good concept.
June 26, 2015
Sam is a total sex machine and he loves to indulge himself with cocaine. He also loves girls. Most of the time characters like Sam annoy me. They are self-absorbed and come off as the world's greatest gift to women, when they are clearly just shallow dudes, but Micheli has worked some kind of magic over me because not only could I tolerate Sam, but I was sincerely interested in him. I wanted to know what made him tick.
This story is well-written and intriguing. I enjoyed the author's writing style and I absolutely hate spoilers, so I won't give anything away, but readers are in for a mind bender. I recommend just letting yourself get lost in the insanity.
This story is well-written and intriguing. I enjoyed the author's writing style and I absolutely hate spoilers, so I won't give anything away, but readers are in for a mind bender. I recommend just letting yourself get lost in the insanity.
July 26, 2015
This was a Goodreads contest win for me and I received the book for free. Not for the prudish.The title says it all.
June 29, 2015
Matt Micheli’s writing is very Stephen King meet VC Andrews. If you are feint of heart this book is not for you. We have the shock and horror involved but also the twisted elements in there like you would see from VC Andrews. It’s a powerful combination that gives you a twisted tale of a man Sam who feels he is not worthy of things and because of this stays in the spiral he created to punish himself for his parents deaths and his feelings towards them back than. Sam is addicted to many things and in retrospect there are some aspects you feel sorry for Sam and others you want to smack him upside the head.
He wants to do what is right in the end but due to his feeling that he doesn’t deserve and his twisted views of woman and relationships brought on by his parents relationship he doesn’t no matter how hard he tries. He wants Nicole but destroys that because of a addiction to what is bad for him. He has hallucinations that may not be but because of all the drugs he is on he can’t be sure. He doesn’t remember days and takes his best friends word. Although the best friend is really bad for him and messes with his mind.
The psychological thriller aspect is well done. Sam is really messed up and with the different issues happening his mind is dazed. He has his past eating away at him, his present guilt working on him, the murders of people he swears John his best friend knows but says he doesn’t and that Sam’s meds are just messing with his mind, the girl he is obsessed with and Nicole who he really likes and wants to turn over a new leaf for. In the end I was shocked at the revelations. We see that he is ending up with those that are bad for him and his spiral downward may continue although now he sees that his friend isn’t all that he seemed and maybe he isn’t as well. Maybe he can crawl out of his world and become better. You see he is struggling for this to occur but to many issues from the past weigh him down.
A powerfully written thriller that will have you appalled at Sam’s actions, rooting for him to become better as he hopes, sorry for him with his past and now the present and his best friend. You are entrenched in a book that doesn’t let you go as you walk through Sam’s twisted and sometimes degrading and debasing world and his mind and what has created him into what he is now and what will now change it.
He wants to do what is right in the end but due to his feeling that he doesn’t deserve and his twisted views of woman and relationships brought on by his parents relationship he doesn’t no matter how hard he tries. He wants Nicole but destroys that because of a addiction to what is bad for him. He has hallucinations that may not be but because of all the drugs he is on he can’t be sure. He doesn’t remember days and takes his best friends word. Although the best friend is really bad for him and messes with his mind.
The psychological thriller aspect is well done. Sam is really messed up and with the different issues happening his mind is dazed. He has his past eating away at him, his present guilt working on him, the murders of people he swears John his best friend knows but says he doesn’t and that Sam’s meds are just messing with his mind, the girl he is obsessed with and Nicole who he really likes and wants to turn over a new leaf for. In the end I was shocked at the revelations. We see that he is ending up with those that are bad for him and his spiral downward may continue although now he sees that his friend isn’t all that he seemed and maybe he isn’t as well. Maybe he can crawl out of his world and become better. You see he is struggling for this to occur but to many issues from the past weigh him down.
A powerfully written thriller that will have you appalled at Sam’s actions, rooting for him to become better as he hopes, sorry for him with his past and now the present and his best friend. You are entrenched in a book that doesn’t let you go as you walk through Sam’s twisted and sometimes degrading and debasing world and his mind and what has created him into what he is now and what will now change it.
June 17, 2015
I’m one of those people that never reads a chapter title. I just don’t. Which proved to be a handicap while reading this book. It takes place in three, maybe four places in time. Basically, the chapter title is telling you the date. So the main character, Sam, his story is being told in three different timelines, if that makes sense.
The point of this? I think it’s to give you an idea of how confused and nonlinear the story is for the main character. Did I start reading the chapter titles after I figured out what the author was doing? Nope. The timelines are different enough I was able to keep it sorted.
This is one of those books that focuses on the mediocre. A bit too much attention was given to the tiny details, which at first I found annoying, but again, I think this was to help us see the world through the character’s eyes.
Now I did get very annoyed at the recurring self-absorbed thoughts Sam has. How does one actually get “eye-fucked”. Well, Sam gets eye fucked from pretty much every person he meets, so I hope it’s a good thing.
I kept searching for a plot and at the very end, I mean, the very last page of the book, you are given one. But it was so—not mentioned—during the rest of the book, it almost comes off as silly.
The book will take you on a wild ride, and I mean that literally. The main character is pretty much never sober and the description is so vivid you will feel as high as the character. At first I thought this was a negative, but to be honest… days after I finished the book found myself picking it up again. That rarely happens to me! I was so engulfed in this world, I want more!
I would suggest giving “Smut” a try. It’s one of those books you might end up liking, but you may not want to admit too!
The point of this? I think it’s to give you an idea of how confused and nonlinear the story is for the main character. Did I start reading the chapter titles after I figured out what the author was doing? Nope. The timelines are different enough I was able to keep it sorted.
This is one of those books that focuses on the mediocre. A bit too much attention was given to the tiny details, which at first I found annoying, but again, I think this was to help us see the world through the character’s eyes.
Now I did get very annoyed at the recurring self-absorbed thoughts Sam has. How does one actually get “eye-fucked”. Well, Sam gets eye fucked from pretty much every person he meets, so I hope it’s a good thing.
I kept searching for a plot and at the very end, I mean, the very last page of the book, you are given one. But it was so—not mentioned—during the rest of the book, it almost comes off as silly.
The book will take you on a wild ride, and I mean that literally. The main character is pretty much never sober and the description is so vivid you will feel as high as the character. At first I thought this was a negative, but to be honest… days after I finished the book found myself picking it up again. That rarely happens to me! I was so engulfed in this world, I want more!
I would suggest giving “Smut” a try. It’s one of those books you might end up liking, but you may not want to admit too!
July 1, 2015
Honestly this book was a bit hard to understand. It was constantly switching to different dates and it just wasn't easy to know what was going on most of the time. It follows a guy, who is apparently having crazy visions, doing drugs and having sex constantly, and chasing after a mysterious HER! I will say I was not expecting the ending, And am still a bit confused by it.
It wasn't the worst book I have ever read, but I can't say it was my favorite either...Stormi
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It wasn't the worst book I have ever read, but I can't say it was my favorite either...Stormi
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March 30, 2015
Great stuff! Loved the smut in smut!
August 19, 2023
Eh.. got better toward the middle. It was ok. Wasn't my favorite though.
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