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Let's get the warnings out of the way first:

• If you're uncomfortable with explicit sexual descriptions, do not read this book. And definitely stay away from the audiobook.
• If you want likeable characters you can root for, do not read this book. You won't find any.
• If you want something wholesome or heartwarming, this is not it.

On the other hand, if you want to see horrible, dislikeable characters sink even lower, if you find the (arguably deserved) misfortunes of others darkly humorous, if you enjoy watching the world burn while eating your popcorn, this book may be for you.

In a meta moment, a minor character in the book says that an erotic novel would be very well received by the general public as good literature, as long as it had the excuse of "social critique". The author certainly seems to have enjoyed himself immensely doing just that: writing a book that is as close to pornography as possible, while also being literature.

The book consists of loosely interconnected short stories that somehow form a whole. A character that plays a minor or incidental role in one story is the protagonist of the next, and so on. I almost gave up during the first two stories, not knowing where the book was taking me and being a little tired of all the moans and cries in the audiobook, but I was also very much intrigued, and in the end I do not regret continuing at all. Ultimately there was something almost poetic in all these stories behind all the vulgarity.