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Shameless
Shameless is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love. It’s an invitation to a journey of sensuality, sultry, and tactile pleasure.
Andrew Lafleche speaks with raw honesty, daring to explore passionate physical affairs and secret desires. These are poems that will obsess, possess, and stay with you forever.
What are others saying about Shameless? “Disgusting. Andrew should be ashamed.”
Andrew Lafleche speaks with raw honesty, daring to explore passionate physical affairs and secret desires. These are poems that will obsess, possess, and stay with you forever.
What are others saying about Shameless? “Disgusting. Andrew should be ashamed.”
134 pages, ebook
Published June 1, 2016
About the author
Andrew Lafleche
33 books177 followersAndrew Lafleche writes about people whose worst decisions become the rest of their lives. His fiction follows damaged, morally compromised characters through addiction, violence, grief, and the stories they tell themselves to survive. He is drawn to the moment when people can no longer pretend they are the hero—the moment consequence arrives and every comforting explanation falls apart.
Before becoming a full-time writer, Andrew served as an infantry soldier in the Canadian Armed Forces, including a combat deployment to Afghanistan. He later worked in firefighting, emergency medical response, and undercover anti-human-trafficking operations. These experiences brought him close to people under extraordinary pressure, when rehearsed identities disappear and difficult truths take their place.
They also taught him that human beings are rarely as simple as their worst actions. He does not write to excuse damaged characters or rescue them from consequence. He writes to see them clearly.
Andrew is the author of the novels Ride and Trident Legion and six poetry collections. Although the settings and circumstances change, his work repeatedly returns to damaged masculinity, moral compromise, violent systems, and the consequences that cannot be undone.
He lives in Ottawa, Canada, where he reads, writes, trains Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and disappears down research rabbit holes that may eventually become stories.
Andrew writes for readers who prefer uncomfortable truths to easy answers—and books that continue haunting them after the final page.
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Before becoming a full-time writer, Andrew served as an infantry soldier in the Canadian Armed Forces, including a combat deployment to Afghanistan. He later worked in firefighting, emergency medical response, and undercover anti-human-trafficking operations. These experiences brought him close to people under extraordinary pressure, when rehearsed identities disappear and difficult truths take their place.
They also taught him that human beings are rarely as simple as their worst actions. He does not write to excuse damaged characters or rescue them from consequence. He writes to see them clearly.
Andrew is the author of the novels Ride and Trident Legion and six poetry collections. Although the settings and circumstances change, his work repeatedly returns to damaged masculinity, moral compromise, violent systems, and the consequences that cannot be undone.
He lives in Ottawa, Canada, where he reads, writes, trains Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and disappears down research rabbit holes that may eventually become stories.
Andrew writes for readers who prefer uncomfortable truths to easy answers—and books that continue haunting them after the final page.
LinkTree https://linktr.ee/andrewlafleche
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AndrewLafleche/
Facebook Ride https://www.facebook.com/RideNovel
X https://www.x.com/andrewlafleche
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/laflecheand...
TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@andrew.lafleche
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@AndrewLafleche
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March 11, 2018
*I received a copy of this book through a Goodreads giveaway* Honestly, I have to say I'm more than a little disappointed by this book. I was expecting something a little scandalous and got something downright crude. I have no problem with writing about the subject of sex, but this book is simply disgusting in the way it portrays sex. There are better reads if you are looking for something maybe a little sexy and scandalous, but this one definitely appalled more than intrigued or entertained.
March 29, 2018
If you have ever thought, “You know what? I wish Bukowski would have been writing as a fuckboy in 2018” then you might like this collection.
February 11, 2019
1 Be ashamed Stars
I received this book in a GR giveaway and I was stoked. For the first time in a LONG time I read a synapsis before getting a book which was:
Lafleche has done it again with Shameless, a collection of prose depicting depravity, written in the same brutal honesty we’ve come to expect from him. Shameless is direct attack on the volumes of lifeless politically correct nauseam that has somehow replaced writing as it once was. It’s a slap in the face to anyone who thinks they have a right not to be offended. It’s about time.
What are others saying about Shameless? “Disgusting. Andrew is everything that’s wrong with the world today. He should be ashamed.”
I thought oh yeah some depraved smut this much be delicious.. they are just oddly devoid of emotion and its written in a strange way. I didn’t care for them Here is a peek at one
BOUDOIR :
I knew a woman
Who liked to fuck
Although we never did.
She would call me
On the telephone
And lead me through
Tantic
Verbal
Sexual
Experiences
Until we both got off.
Almost all of his stories involve cheating. This wasn’t for me.. I was too bored
I received this book in a GR giveaway and I was stoked. For the first time in a LONG time I read a synapsis before getting a book which was:
Lafleche has done it again with Shameless, a collection of prose depicting depravity, written in the same brutal honesty we’ve come to expect from him. Shameless is direct attack on the volumes of lifeless politically correct nauseam that has somehow replaced writing as it once was. It’s a slap in the face to anyone who thinks they have a right not to be offended. It’s about time.
What are others saying about Shameless? “Disgusting. Andrew is everything that’s wrong with the world today. He should be ashamed.”
I thought oh yeah some depraved smut this much be delicious.. they are just oddly devoid of emotion and its written in a strange way. I didn’t care for them Here is a peek at one
BOUDOIR :
I knew a woman
Who liked to fuck
Although we never did.
She would call me
On the telephone
And lead me through
Tantic
Verbal
Sexual
Experiences
Until we both got off.
Almost all of his stories involve cheating. This wasn’t for me.. I was too bored
April 14, 2018
***I won this book via the Goodreads Giveaway program. This has not influenced my review.**
This is not a book for everyone. There is a lot of pornographic and disturbing material/topics. If you are easily offended, just skip this book.
Before diving into this book, I read the tease on Goodreads. The last sentence says, “Disgusting. Andrew is everything that’s wrong with the world today. He should be ashamed.” Well, not only was I warned, it's absolutely accurate. The rest of the tease is also quite accurate.
This is a book of poems, all written in the first person. The first poem is meant to shock and hit a nerve. There is a different rise and fall to the placement of the other poems in the book. The overall themes are that women are objects, he has little respect for anything that challenges him, sex sex sex, and women are bothersome.
I am not easily offended, and there were a few cringe-worthy moments for me. When thinking of a rating, I felt I needed to be fair to the fact that the author accomplished his goal of shocking compared to my enjoyment of the material. I definitely did not enjoy the material, but the poems were mostly well crafted and did what was intended.
Quite bold, quite arrogant, quite disturbing.
This is not a book for everyone. There is a lot of pornographic and disturbing material/topics. If you are easily offended, just skip this book.
Before diving into this book, I read the tease on Goodreads. The last sentence says, “Disgusting. Andrew is everything that’s wrong with the world today. He should be ashamed.” Well, not only was I warned, it's absolutely accurate. The rest of the tease is also quite accurate.
This is a book of poems, all written in the first person. The first poem is meant to shock and hit a nerve. There is a different rise and fall to the placement of the other poems in the book. The overall themes are that women are objects, he has little respect for anything that challenges him, sex sex sex, and women are bothersome.
I am not easily offended, and there were a few cringe-worthy moments for me. When thinking of a rating, I felt I needed to be fair to the fact that the author accomplished his goal of shocking compared to my enjoyment of the material. I definitely did not enjoy the material, but the poems were mostly well crafted and did what was intended.
Quite bold, quite arrogant, quite disturbing.
March 27, 2018
Shameless is shameless.
Poetry/prose recounting of sexual encounters,drinking and drugging experiences through the eyes of a male high on himself. Fiction or autobiographical the pieces show someone stuck on one subject.
Poetry/prose recounting of sexual encounters,drinking and drugging experiences through the eyes of a male high on himself. Fiction or autobiographical the pieces show someone stuck on one subject.
March 17, 2018
I received a free copy of this book from a Goodreads giveaway. I knew going into this one that it would be all about sex, but I was expecting something provocative and sexy. What I got was some random guy's sexts and fantasies about sex. This is trash. Don't waste your time unless you have no class.
October 23, 2023
A raw, vulnerable, vulgar look at the world today, can’t wait for his next instalment!
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