Be A Fucking Adult: Uncensored Fiction With No Warnings discussion
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Love the idea of the group so far! Thank god! I have two recommendations- a book of poems called “dead dad jokes” which is pretty painful to read, by a young poet, and at the end of the book there is a link to her Bandcamp page for “dead dad songs” also beautiful in a singer-songwriter way, and lyrics that are not easy to hear. Remarkable and heart felt production that is certainly not for everyone. Second recommendation is the classic “fear of flying” by erica Jong, an erotic fest from the 70s which is about womens sexual fantasies and is hilarious at times, a lot about being Jewish among therapists and I believe she coined the phrase “a zipless fuck” but I won’t spoil it for you if you don’t know what that is :) Unlike the current phrase “wanna play shark attack? You eat I scream? Looking forward to this group and recommendations!
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Right , forgot that - Ollie Schminkey wrote Dead Dad Jokes
Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 epic novel by Cormac McCarthy, a western, very violent, extraordinary writing, I’ve never read anything quite so disturbing that burned images in my mind that continue to make me wince.
I love the idea of this group and I'm so glad I found it! I'm an author whose trilogy of full length novels was recently added to Goodreads, so I'm looking for all the reviews and honest opinions I can get. It's in the category of crime/noir or urban fiction, about an antihero you either love or love to hate. He starts the trilogy as a spoiled, wealthy boy whose life seems perfect from the outside, but he secretly spends his nights carrying a gun and putting in work. They don't have very many reviews yet but the ones they do have are very good, four and a half or five stars. I know they won't be everyone's cup of tea because of the content, but if they sound like your kind of read, the first one is called The Fall of Jordan. #gangsterlit #antihero #crimefiction #noirfiction The Fall of Jordan
All members are welcome to suggest books to be added to the group's bookshelves. To qualify a book must:
1. Belong to any genre of fiction and poetry (this includes but isn't limited to Horror, Grime, Crime, Speculative, Erotica, and other fictions)
2. Be considered Adult, no Young Adult
3. Contain adult themes like:
Drug Usage and Drug Dealing (America’s lifeblood literally ARE DRUGS)
Alcoholism (Who doesn't know somebody too heavy on the sauce)
Violence of any kind (It happens from Prison to the Boardroom people!)
Rape (Even Maya Angelou discusses rape in graphic detail from her perspective in I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings)
The ongoing threat of rape (Yes, it happens, especially in Prison Literature.)
Unwanted and unsolicited body contact of an openly sexual nature (Again, it happens.)
Child sexual abuse/pedophile characters (Yes, it happens, especially in every slave book that has EVER been written. What would Mandingo by Kyle Onslott be without it?)
Dubious sexual consent - threats, drugs, slavery and other situations where no consent can be given (Yes, it happens. What would a book like Memoirs of a Geisha be without it?)
Cursing (The word fuck is the only word in the English language that is a proper and common noun, verb, adverb, adjective, and conjunction.)
General Criminal Activity (if this disturbs you however do you read history or watch the news?)
Racism, Sexism, Segregationism, Discriminationism, LGBTQQAIophobia, Misogyny, Male Bashing, or any other social construct that hurts the Karens and Chads politically correct feelings. Life is FILLED with different experiences – READ THEM and learn something about the world.
4. Have not already been added to our bookshelf
Also, please avoid suggesting books that would be right up the alley for the censorship and politically correct crowd.
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⭐ Once a month, all recommended books are vetted by a moderator before being added to the bookshelf-database
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