HIV AND AIDS IS A VERY VITAL PART OF THE BOOK? i can sort of see why but like then everyone brushes it off but also like, idk, the author frames ppl with HIV and AIDS as monsters… even going so far that the 3 horrible abusive murderous main characters have AIDS and the ‘pure and innocent’ POC character doesn’t <- he is almost given AIDS several times in the book in sexual ways and it comes off as borderline fetishy at times ?! guess which one is framed as ‘innocent’ and ‘exotic’ and is the only one that is violently raped and murdered □ yeah…… the Vietnamese characterĪLSO. the main cast is 3 white men and 1 vietnamese man. 60% explanation 40% execution… and that’s being generous The book is paced reallt weird like we get introduced to all the characters and their lives and then 60% into the book the actual plot plot starts to yaknow, be written. it was just a splatterpunk’s wet dream with slurs sprinkled in that the author CANNOT SAY BTW……… Spoiler i can see why ppl enjoy it (to an extent but not really), but someone who’s favorite book is tender is flesh i understand how it feels to have a book with sexual assault and cannibalism in it and trying to be like ITS GOOD GUYS I SWEARīut exquisite corpse, wasn’t that. I know it was written in the 90s but it is painfully 90s especially when it comes to HIV and AIDS, it really stigmatizes the diseases and paints everyone who has the diseases as ‘evil’
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