Reviews for Principles of economics

The average rating for Principles of economics based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-04-14 00:00:00 Troy Adams I think this collections speaks of a dying experience of the gay man so rarely found in the mainstream media today, which presents all gay men as just wanting marriage or acceptance from the school bullies. These boys sure as hell aren’t the boys from Modern Family or Glee. These are the boys who don’t even believe true love possible, the boys who believe that even if it does exist the only grace and possible attainment of it is in the almost unreachable hookup sex, the one night stands, or buried deep behind the abuse of a bad relationship. It’s the boys who watch their crushes from afar at school and who must wait eight years for their grace, which only comes as a lonely blowjob after meeting again in a seedy bar. The boys who are bored by love, don’t believe in its saving power, and wish to annihilate it. Dennis Cooper scares me with his sexual abuse, rape, necrophilia, cannibalism, pederasty, and murder, but there is no denying that his work portrays all the stuff that gay men feel that people are too afraid to touch--the dirty side of longing, the feelings men get when any feeling of love and self-worth is prohibited, it’s dream love (even in dreams restricted, policed), it’s lust, it’s self-hatred. It’s the loneliest poetry in the world.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-09-17 00:00:00 Parry Sound I stand with the guys I resemble. Jerry, Tom, Dick, Sam, Julian, Max, Timmy. Guess which of those names is perfect. We dream of a casual million. We light our cigarettes gently. I take what the night has to offer. I roll a ripe peach from one wrist to another. I can’t speak I’m so fucking stupid. Our bodies are simply stupendous. When we breathe, it takes us apart. You know. You’re inside us. from “Hustlers”