One of the Nastiest Books I Have Ever Read...

[@LucianCorrvinus]

It is a natural extension of thought about Love surviving Death, that would lead one into the land of Necrophilia....Death and the Maiden, indeed.....

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

I think that’s what Baudelaire wrote about in his poetry: Regarding a lover with adoration, then thinking of her moment of death, covered in maggots, filled with noxious fumes, and that image only amplifying the moment of lust and sexual ecstasy… and then the wires cross.

[@LucianCorrvinus]

@@PlaguedbyVisions Is not the Grave so called a bed? Is the Mortal Coil not a Danse Macabre... Can Earth not contain the direful Heart? And highest Dream in arms to Rot...? Death our ultimate selfish Lover... That doth do not Love few. .but All....

[@codeinesnaps]

We love the new channel name.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Thank you! 👁👁👁

[@wadejohnston4305]

Thanks for the review man. That tiktok cracked me the fuck up. 🤣 "Nooooo. I don't think that's right"

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Lmao I forgot I even threw that in there.

[@cu00dj]

Thanks for this review. I am not into this type of literature but iI like to listen to intelligent reviews and discussions of books. Thanks!

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Thank YOU for giving the video shot despite it not being your taste! ❤️

[@MindBloodandDark]

Dang love the new intro! 😍 This book sounds like something i would never read so kudos to you for reading it lmaooo But i agree its books like these that remind us real life is much more disturbing and sick than anything fiction can try to compete against 😰

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Thank you! I’m glad the intro looks good 🥺 Yeah, this was very “Faces of Death.” Same tone, strangely, same willingness to make you vomit. That stuff I can only take so much of. It is its semblance to reality that takes it to the next level. I do wonder what Ms. Wittkop was thinking...

[@BookBlather]

Agreed, really cool intro!

[@TakarasAsylum]

I found the first several pages for free online after watching this video, and it stuck with me so much that I've bought the book and is my current read. Lovely review, you have a knack for oration and make me feel just a bit smarter whenever I watch a video. The knowledge and opinions you give are much appreciated!

[@codeinesnaps]

This book reminded me so much of Ed Gein... Robbing grave from cemeteries..

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Oh, yes. And then... doing things... 🤢

[@realeala]

Someone call lars von trier to make a movie of this book

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

He’d just splice together his home security camera footage.

[@codeinesnaps]

Necrophiliac - a fascination with the dark...? WHAT! Damn, these gen. z kids. hahaha

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Omfg dude... I couldn’t stop laughing when I first watched that tiktok 💀

[@BookBlather]

Another great exploration of the value of reading certain books grounded in repulsive subjects. Truly great review. I don’t really want to, but may have to, read this.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Thank you as always, Dave! ❤️ It was certainly... something special. If you do decide to read it, I’m interested in what meaning you draw out from it, if any. It mostly just left me feeling absolutely devastated.

[@elric101]

Love your reviews bro. Have you read Dead inside by Chandler Morrison? I've heard its about necrophilia too but not as well written but still people have mentioned it's sick as fcuk!

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Thank you so much for watching and for your kind words! I have NOT read Dead Inside, but it has certainly been recommended to me plenty. I’m not sure I would enjoy it, since it sounds to be pretty shallow, which I don’t tend to enjoy in my reading, but you never know what the future holds!

[@Uyuayoung]

Hey, another review about one of my favorite books! It truly is a dark book but it is incredibly well written, I have so many thoughts on it and I could go on and on talking about it but the most satisfying part of the book was how it ended. Loved the video and also the purple light, it gave the whole review an appropriate vibe. Keep it up!

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Happy to hear from someone who loves this book! Honestly, feel free to go on and on because I’m highly interested in different perspectives about this book! It truly is enigmatic and stomach-churning in a way very few books are. Maybe that fetid potency itself is what makes this worth reading. Thank you so much for watching and commenting! I truly appreciate it.

[@Jake-rv9hr]

Love the new channel style!

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Thanks, Jake! Btw just got a copy of The Siberian Incident! I will read it in the near future.

[@Jake-rv9hr]

@@PlaguedbyVisions Awesome man!! Its a really fun and quick read hope you enjoy it

[@Evan.Stevens]

Love the rebrand!

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Thank you so much!

[@robchmara7741]

I discovered this book through Alex’s comment on your earlier video so it’s pretty crazy that you posted this video on the day I finished reading this book. Totally agree with everything you said. The prose is beautiful and keeps you reading even though you’re reading the most dark and vile things. The opening two paragraphs smacked me right in the face but I couldn’t stop reading. It took me three days to finish, only because I had other things going on this weekend, but I could have easily finished in one sitting. This is both a brilliantly written book and one that I will probably never read again.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

So nice to hear we coincided with our reading! I had been wanting to read it for months, and after fishing out that comment, I decided to finally give it a go! Yeah, this is definitely going to just sit pretty on my bookshelf forever. The opening was truly transcendent.

[@XenIsWhen]

I read it recently thanks to this channel. I guess it would have grossed me out more if I didn't already hear you describe it. My only problem with it is that it gets repetitive after a while; I think I yelled at the book, "We get it! You f**k dead bodies! Move on, please!" Hopefully the neighbors didn't overhear.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Right. 😂 I think it’s just the exasperation one gets from constantly witnessing something so abject and foreign. To me, it’s disconcerting that that’s the entirety of his life, his goals, and when you think of how there’s really people like this… yikes.

[@grgryc987]

Excellent review of a book that definitely is hard to read on a comprehensive level albeit beautifully written.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Thank you so much for watching! Definitely, a very difficult book to unpack, just because the style and narrative are so weirdly impermeable.

[@Alex-rz3hy]

Also, I’m curious what time period you felt like the book was set in? While I know she wrote it in the 70s and he mentioned his car numerous times I almost felt like it was set it Victorian or maybe Edwardian era. I just got a more antiquated vibe from it.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

There was definitely a “classic” feel to it, and DAMMIT I forgot to mention it in my review! I feel that Wittkop may also be writing this book to poke fun at and criticize French bourgeoisie. The book definitely drives itself with the same scathing and sardonic energy as something by De Sade or Bataille, a picaresque tale turned morbid and demented. To me, the style was very much 19th century, but the visual references that popped into my head while reading it (the film Nekromantik, which I mentioned to you before, and also the German film Schramm) grounded it in a more modern setting for me.

[@MR._OMAR_KING]

Great review, Juan. 👍

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Thank you! 😘

[@codeinesnaps]

Love the rating style!

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Thank you!

[@Alex-rz3hy]

🤣🤣 Whatta creep for reading it in one sitting!! Kidding. I ended up buying the two other books by Wittkop that were translated into English because her writing is so good. They are Murder Most Serene and Exemplary Departures. I have yet to read them just yet. Also, I had a laugh at “He owns an antique shops and fucks dead bodies.” 🤣 I wonder if that would have been his LinkedIn bio had he had one.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

This is the last f@#*ing time I read a book recommended by you 🤢 JK keep ‘em coming! I think it would be more his Tinder bio.

[@Alex-rz3hy]

Btw, I ordered a copy of The Doll Master by JCO per your suggestion a few days ago. Still waiting for it to arrive. And I’m pumped to hear you’re making a feminist sci-fi video. I only recently discovered a fancy for sci-fi books when I read Solaris in January. I freaking loved it. I didn’t realize the genre could be other than those with lots of high fantasy type aspects (which I have no interest in). Yeah I know, I’m late to the party.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Hope you enjoy The Doll Master! I hope the recommendations I make in my feminist sci-fi video interest you! Solaris is amazing. So is Roadside Picnic, both of which Tarkovsky adapted into phenomenal films.

[@Alex-rz3hy]

@@PlaguedbyVisions I bought Roadside picnic but haven’t read it yet. I just finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Curious if you have read Against Nature or Vathek btw? Obviously not a sci-fi related question.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

I reviewed Against Nature in my first video. Vathek I have not read yet!

[@codeinesnaps]

Dude, I still have to get my right tooth out!!! I'm so scared cause it's general anesthesia..

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

I also was anesthetized. It wasn’t bad. There was no pain, until after, but more akin to just mild discomfort and swelling. I feel much better now! It certainly beats a constant toothache.

[@luciaamayasolerraljevic6972]

Hello Juan! Thanks for your videos!!! And thanks for all the reviews and recomendations! I just read this book I'm in shock xD on the one hand it's pretty good but when you realize what it really is it's disgusting I don't know how to explain the feeling that this book left me but thank you very much for recommending it greetings from Bolivia

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Thank you so much for watching! Sending greetings all the way to Bolivia! Yes, I think this is a difficult book to grapple with. I guess, in the end, it’s a compelling look at an incomprehensible monstrousness that is still very much grounded in very human desire-really unsettling.

[@graciesmom62]

Hi Juan....Have you read Sade’s “120 Days of Sodom” ? I’m going to check out “The Necrophiliac” soon...I have some other of your picks to get through first.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Hi, Sandy! Thank you for watching! I have, indeed, read this disasterpiece by the Marquis de Sade. There’s a video somewhere on my channel titled “Top 10 Most Disgusting Books.” I talk about him there, appropriately so.

[@Mondomeyer]

I read it in two days (I'm always getting interrupted)

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Hahaha, what could have possibly interrupted your read of this?! 😂

[@Mondomeyer]

@@PlaguedbyVisionsWork/Pets/Working with pets

[@meowhannah1]

I love your book recommendations!!

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Thank you so much! If you’re curious about this book, you should also try Hashish by Oscar Schmitz!

[@codeinesnaps]

do you know there are different classes of being a necrophiliac? don't ask me why I have this information stored in my brain.. lol

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

I... I’m listening 👂🏽 or this might be a “DMs” type of conversation 😂

[@DJ-qr7hk]

Hey Juan! Great video as always :) would love to hear your thoughts on / reviews of other novellas, short stories, non lengthy books of a transgressive/horrific nature (I love reading but don't always get time to dedicated myself to a 300 + page book all the time 💔)

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Thank you so much for watching! Yes, absolutely! I always make sure to mention if a book was short/if I finished it in one sitting, for this exact reason! I have some more books of that length lined up!

[@Monsterblood]

I see Intensity in the background! Lol. And there's no way I could read this book. I loved horror that's really dark and messed up, but I still have to be able to enjoy it. This one sounds like it would cross the line for me. Yuck. Haha.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Yes! I’ll be reviewing Intensity along with some others for my end-of-the-month wrap-up. I agree. Even though I mostly cover disturbing literature, this one was particularly revolting. Like I said, beautifully written, but that can only get you so far. I wouldn’t even necessarily describe it as horror. Horror has its set of aesthetics and plot devices that make it enjoyable for the most part. This was just... “yuck” indeed!

[@MindBloodandDark]

That tiktok at the end almost made me spit out my drink 🤣

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

😂

[@efleishermedia]

Hey! I love your reviews. Wondering if you've read HURRICANE SEASON from New Directions? It's probably the most beautiful, grotesque, and honest portrayal of poverty I've ever read, and I'm all about southern gothic... also Child of God by Cormac McCarthy is another short novella that made my skin crawl for much different reasons.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

I have not read Hurricane Season! I did read a Mexican novel of the same name, but I’m pretty sure it’s not the same one lol. Child of God I discussed previously in my “Most Disgusting Books” video if you’re interested!

[@efleishermedia]

@@PlaguedbyVisions I will check it out good sir! Your reviews and content are top notch

[@wakkawakka900]

I never feel ashamed for buying a book because they're selling it so if they're embarrassed about it that's on them.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Exactly. I just barge into the p*rn section and dare anyone to look me in the eye.

[@CookiesNMilf]

Just from the title alone, I think it’s safe to say that I will never be reading this book. Just makes you wonder about what the author was up too and where their brain was truly at.

[@PlaguedbyVisions]

Gabrielle Wittkop had death on her mind, but the way she plunged into such a sinister psychology… I love writers so much.

[@snickerswo1f519]

i need to buy this book👁