Exquisite Corpse

De: Poppy Z. Brite

Narrado por: Joshua Saxon

From the author of Lost Souls, Drawing Blood, and Wormwood comes a thrilling and chilling novel that best-selling author Peter Straub says serves as a “guidebook to hell”.

To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his “art” to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed his “art” to limits even Compton hadn’t previously imagined. Together, Compton and Byrne set their sights on an exquisite young Vietnamese-American runaway, Tran, whom they deem to be the perfect victim.

Swiftly moving from the grimy streets of London’s Piccadilly Circus to the decadence of the New Orleans French Quarter, Poppy Z. Brite dissects the landscape of torture and invites us into the mind of a killer. Exquisite Corpse confirms Brite as a writer who defies categorization. It is a novel for those who dare trespass where the sacred and profane become one.

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WOW

okay. i have no words. i was amazed throughout the whole book, the narration was beautiful, and i completely forgot at times that this is a book about disgusting stuff until the stuff happened. one of my all time favorites, much quicker than j was expecting. i will come back to this again and again.

Harrowing, but worth it

Read this to test your humanity. Read this if you need to weep (or vomit). It's a gutwrenching and utterly disgusting gift in heartbreakingly beautiful wrapping.

Perfection

I love this book. Everything about it. It’s beautiful, uncomfortable and disgusting. The performance is phenomenal, a work of art.

Incredible story & writing.

Narrator was fantastic. The story is dark but very well written. Very matter of fact. Detail oriented and overall a thrilling take. Highly recommend to those who like twisted stories.

so basically

It's like if David Attenborough made an 8 hour documentary of "1 Man 1 Jar."

A Beautiful Disgusting Book

This is a book with some bite. Literally! I was looking for disturbing literature when I stumbled on this. It did not disappoint. A very good piece of literary art. Every passage and chapter is a combination of amazing descriptions and gory horror. Not for the faint of heart, but if you can stomach it, it is a wild ride.

first poppy

my first poppy and it was exquisite. the narrator only enhance the lurid story with his growling dark voice.

Damn

Who knew that the grotesque could be so beautifully and eloquently written.
I am blown away by this book as well as the performance.
Definitely gruesome (I had to leave and come back several times) so be prepared but I def recommend!

Dam, what a ride.

Poppy Z Bright, you are a disgusting, foul minded, perverse human being. And I love it.

Loved It!

The only reason I gave the performance four stars, and this is just a nitpick, is this: The voice the narrator does for Andrew Compton just sounds too old. Compton is supposed to be 33. But the voice he is given sounds like a 70-year-old man. It was hard for me to picture a 33-year-old while listening to that voice. I kept picturing a gray-haired old grandpa, lol.

I loved the story, though. Not for the faint f heart, but really well written.