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Tender Is the Flesh
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Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans--though no one calls them that anymore.His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the "Transition." Now, eating human meat--"special meat"--is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he's given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he's aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost--and what might still be saved.Show more
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Morbid curiosity was the reason behind my reading this. It's grotesque, disturbing and just plain f'd up. The ending was not at all what I expected
The most f***ed up book I’ve ever read. I gave it five stars because on a scale of 1-5 on how traumatized I was after reading it, it’s a 5. Really a 10. I think what makes it even more so disturbing and distressing is because I can see the world very easily convinced to do what they do in this book. And, on top of that, it made me cringe, gag, want to throw the book across the room, hate human beings, want to burn the world to the ground. So yeah...read more
not something i normally read but i found it very good and could not put it down. i would definitely recommend for those who love a good plot twist.
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