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Original Title:	My Loose Thread
ISBN:	1841954128 (ISBN13: 9781841954127)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.denniscooper.net/myloosethread.htm
Setting:	United States of America

My Loose Thread

Dennis Cooper

Paperback | Pages: 130 pages

Rating: 3.46 | 1138 Users | 53 Reviews

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Larry is a teenager wrestling not only with his sexuality and the implications of a physical relationship with his younger brother, but with the very point of his existence. He is numb to almost all that surrounds him. As the book opens, Larry has been paid $500 by a senior to kill a fellow student and retrieve the boy's notebook. It seems simple enough. However, once Larry delves into the notebook, complications arise. An immensely powerful work that explores teenage depression, moral vacuity, and the confusion of love, this is a claustrophobic and harrowing piece of fiction.

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Title	:	My Loose Thread
Author	:	Dennis Cooper
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 130 pages
Published	:	June 19th 2003 by Canongate UK (first published 2002)
Categories	:	Fiction. GLBT. Queer. LGBT. Novels. Dark

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Ratings: 3.46 From 1138 Users | 53 Reviews

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This was definitely not the book I was expecting when a friend of mine tossed it into a Christmas package alongside a hand-knitted scarf and sugar cookies. From the beginning to the end, I felt so sure that at some point, things were going to start looking up for someone, anyone in the story...but that was wishful thinking on a very grand scale. The dark, gritty subject matter was only bearable for me through the lens of the almost completely detached style it was written in. While reading I

Hmmm. I'm not sure what I thought of this. I found it very chaotic and confusion and while I can understand that as insight into the main character's thought processes, I found it distracting. It also took me much longer to read this slim volume than it should have, though I've no idea why. Perhaps my own life is a little too chaotic at this time to appriciate this.

I'm not exactly sure why I picked up My Loose Thread by Dennis Cooper but I'm uncomfortably glad that I did. I have to admit that I found the initial few pages a bit hard to grasp but, due to it being a fairly short novella, I plugged away at it and found a picture that built before me. A hideous, broken, grim picture of awful teenage angst and mental issues. After I finished I went back and re-read those first few pages I'd struggled through and they all made sense. Maybe I just couldn't tune

Gregg Araki style teen nihilism featuring an endless scorecard of kids murdered just so our hero could protect his flagging masculinity. The symbolism of a journal full of secrets in a backpack was straight out of Creative Writing 101, it wasn't terribly clever.Our hero Larry was emotionally constipated, taking credit for a murder he assumed he committed, crying every two and a half pages, and incapable of differentiating between love and lust. Yes, teenagers can be inarticulate and confused but

Eeeeek very painfulhaunted by columbine and internalized homophobia and incest

An extraordinarily dark, gritty portrayal of American teen angst that could go side-by-side with Charles Burns's "Black Hole." Disturbing depiction of confusion about emotions, sexual identity, and social structure that burgeons into expression through violence and drug abuse. I take issue because the author makes use of certain conventions (i.e., stereotypes) that develop into pat responses. Yes, it's well done, but ill-considered.

A book that is numb, confusing thanks to an unreliable narrator, and full of conflicting emotions. A guy is in love with his brother and a lot of people die. Some fucked up things as per usual, but it's what you can expect with Dennis Cooper's work. Too confusing for my own good though.