| Title | : | Oedipus Wrecked |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.83 (681 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1573442224 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 220 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2005-10-21 |
| Genre | : |
If David Sedaris were straight (or Margaret Cho were a man), they might be Kevin Keck. Keck mines the same rich vein of candid, confessional humor as these popular comics, but Oedipus Wrecked goes further in single-mindedly, hilariously recounting every grim detail of the author's almost absurdly varied sexual history. Keck pulls no punches in describing his endless, obsessive erotic experiments. In essays like "Ass Backwards," "Wet, Hot Presbyterian Summer," and "I Was a Teenage Homosexual," Keck skewers his eccentric mother (whose dildo he swipes), documents his plunge into the "chorus of coming" on a sex party line, and limns a particularly outré encounter with a girl who demands he participate in water sports but won't "have sex" because "that's a sin."For a driven horndog like Keck, sexual taboos exist to be broken. Still he always pays a price through numbing guilt or fear of discovery — though neither prevents him from embarking on the next quest for love and
Editorial : "An amazingly perverted—and funny—young writer." -- Entertainment Weekly
"Kevin Keck is obsessed with his penis—and god help me, so am I." -- Lisa Carver, author of Drugs Are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir
"Oedipus Wrecked is very dirty, very honest, and very funny. Did I mention it’s very dirty?" -- A.J. Jacobs, author of The Know-It-All
To be fair, the early music stuff is fascinating--how he was writing songs, trying to get a certain sound, the feeling in the early days of underground music, how bands were creating a network, sleeping on people's floors--but when he gets to the more ordinary parts of his life, he treats them as though they're similarly exotic. I used it for a class and the smarter students of the class all had the same opinions which were: the book didn't answer the fundamental questions they wanted answered, it wasn't particularly well written, and it didn't inspire them, either with inspirational offerings or a rationale for taking art away from the systems of modifications. Dominic Carter has written a deeply moving memoir framed around the horrific physical and sexual abuse he suffered as a young child. What more could you want from a hero?
Copyright 2009 Kevin Clemens (speedreaders.info). They have spent years living in their RV six months in Canada and six months in the United States each
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