Son of Man

[Fellfrosch]

Read the review here: http://www.timewastersguide.com/view.php?id=1072

Sounds interesting, but I doubt I'd read it based on the content warning. It certainly makes me want to read more reviews of it, though.

[JP Dogberry]

Yeah, you might not like it. It certainly isn't for the sexually repressed, but it's a genius piece of work.

I must stress though, there's a lot of sex in the book, and while it is all artistic, and much could be considered erotic, I wouldn't call any of it pornographic. It's working on a much higher level than that. Though the physical act is there, the book is much more concerned with the union of minds occuring therin.

Literally, in some cases.

It's a large theme in the book, but it fits very well in there. The author is maginificantly skilled in getting a feeling across - when Clay is in the zones of discomfort, you can feel his pain.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I want to be clear on whether you think that Fell and I are sexually repressed.

Because I think that finding public portrayal of sex, especially graphically, inappropriate is hardly "repressed."

[Spriggan]

I think Fell finds the book intresting becasue he allwayse wanted to be a Hemaphrodite and fight Evil goatmen (but have sex with the good ones).

This review leads me to beleave that this is probaly one of the sillist (as in stupid) sci-fi books ever written.

[JP Dogberry]

It's not stupid, it's too smart for you.

[Entsuropi]

The anguished cry of a million self-proclaimed intellectuals

[JP Dogberry]

Shut up Entropy, you're sexually repressed.

[Spriggan]

This comeing from the guy who's scared of women.  

[JP Dogberry]

It was supposed to be sarcastic.

Actually, the only people not sexually repressed are Europeans.

Regardless, the book is still very good - it's difficult to describe really, because it's so surreal. It's not really about anything but experiencing the writing.

[42]

It's not that Europeans are sexually unrepressed, it's that they have no control of their bodily functions anymore.

[Master Gopher]

*Pokes any Europeans on the board*

Come on! Retaliate!

[JP Dogberry]

Arbitrally placed control *IS* repression.

[Spriggan]

But that dosen't mean its bad.

[Firemeboy]

-Ah, now we see the sexualtiy inherent in the system.
-Shut up!
- Oh!  Come and see the sexuality inherent in the system! HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!
-Bloody peasant!
-Oh, what a give away.  Did you here that, did you here that, eh?  That's what I'm on about -- did you see him repressing me, you saw it didn't you?

[Master Gopher]

But that dosen't mean its bad.

He didn't say it was *bad*, necessarily, just that you wouldn't like the book, if that were the case.

[why on earth have I taken up JP's defence? *Marvels*]