10 Membranes

Snuff / Wetlands

Two novels, both slim, both published by high end literary imprints and both, so they might like to think, shockingly filthy.

Snuff by Chuck Palanuick is about a world record porn shag fest with an ending implied by the title. Wetlands by Charlotte Roche is about a teenage girl exploring parts of her anatomy, also implied by the title.

Both of these books annoyed me for the precise reason that they are trying to be shockingly filthy. Maybe they are shockingly filthy to people who don’t have the internet. But then again, I don’t imagine those people will buy these books.

Unfortunately these two books just come off as preening, adolescent exercises in not being, cleer or cool. Bored.com.