Boring af. I appreciate dark humour and was already expecting some fucked up shit but this just bored me. I don't know how old the writer was at the time but this reads like a college aged edgylord trying too hard to shock people. Also pretty misogynistic. ( )

Wow. Just wow. This book is really good. Seriously.
Honestly, i was just expecting it to be about sex with the dead, but its so much more than that.
These stories really make you think.
I loved this. 5/5 Would definitely recommend. ( )

You pick up a book that is called Necrophilia Variations, and it is safe to assume all the stories are going to be about having sex with the dead. But Necrophilia Variations, while it does include tales of sex with dead people, is more a collection of stories of people dealing with the confluence between sex and death. The notion of le petit mort is an idea that is not new, yet the idea that the sex impulse is closely linked to death is hard for many to swallow. Though visionaries and poets, like Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Mirbeau, have tread this ground before, it is refreshing to see these sorts of ideas written by a modern for moderns. Heartbreaking, sickening, humorous – this short story collection pushes boundaries, and does not just push them for the sake of pushing, as I felt was the case when I read Bataille’s Story of the Eye (a book I am willing now to say I simply did not get and likely never will). You can read the rest of the review here: http://ireadoddbooks.com/?p=399 ( )