Cows

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The real world resides in the light of television, where lives are organized and people know exactly what to do. This novel is hideous in its depravity and beautiful in its understanding of what it means to have nothing left to lose.

In a lot of ways, this is a 5-star book, and in a lot of other ways, it is a 1-star book, so I'm leaving my review at 3.The decision to allow the tangling of their lives had provided a veneer of distraction with which she could lightly cover the knowledge that all the systems of her soul and body, progressively corrupted since birth, were still degenerating unstoppably. Steven sickens slowly, holed up in his room, watching perfect lives on TV, dreaming of what it would be like to be safe, to be happy, to be loved. Mother's corpse in bits, dead dog on the roof, girlfriend in a coma, baby nailed to the wall - and a hundred tons of homicidal beef stampeding through the subway system. One of the most outrageous, original and insightful books ever written on the subject of alienation and societal decay, COWS is a violent, blood-soaked nightmare - a tale of love, self-empowerment and talking cows. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

COWS’ has become a cult classic, much in the way ‘A Serbian Tale’ has for the movie watching community. I foresee drooling adverbs and slippery tongues as antilymphocyte drugs are injected into the pericardium. But there are cows living under the city, and when they come for Steven, he sets his sights a whole lot higher. The scene that sticks in my head is that Lucy asks Steven to put a sigmoid scope in her and to watch the screen to see if he can see any of the "black poison" in her bowels - while Steven is doing this he starts playing with her and then just starts screwing her with the probe in her ass.

Whomever came up with the expression “Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me” should just ought rethink that statement after reading this book which smashes all boundaries of good taste, and just may make you become a vegetarian. Underground literary shock-rocker Stokoe slaps his readers in the face with this bloody, truly disgusting diatribe against normalcy. I tried - I really tried and all I could think to compare it to was Jonathan Swift's essay "A Modest Proposal". In visual art, it’s common for students to become interested in violent or disturbing images, such as photos of car crash victims or medical deformities, and to try to use them in their work. The word is out that Cows is every bit as dark and deranged as Iain Banks' classic The Wasp Factory.