Oedipus Wrecked
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.46 (565 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1573442224 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 220 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Kevin Keck is a frequent contributor to Details, Nerve and many other magazines. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. His work has been translated into numerous languages and he has appeared on TV.
Still he always pays a price through numbing guilt or fear of discovery — though neither prevents him from embarking on the next quest for love and orgasms. Keck's tableaux of sexual excess are rendered in vivid, unflinching language that marks the emergence of a new voice in contemporary humor that's both cuttingly comic and startlingly revelatory.. Keck mines the same rich vein of candid, confessional humor as these popular comics, but Oedipus Wrecked goes further in single-mindedly, hilariously recounting every grim detail of the author's almost absurdly varied sexual history. In essays like "Ass Backwards," "Wet, Hot Presbyterian Summer," and "I Was a Teenage Homosexual," Keck skewers his eccentric mother (whose dildo he swipes), documents his plunge into the "chorus of coming" on a sex party line, and limns a particularly outré encounter with a girl who demands he participate in water sports but won't "have sex" because "that's a sin."For a driven horndog like Keck, sexual taboos exist to be broken. Keck pulls no punches in describing his endless, obsessive erotic experiments. If David Sedaris were straight (or Margaret Cho were a man), they might be Kevin Keck
"An amazingly perverted—and funny—young writer." -- Entertainment Weekly"Kevin Keck is obsessed with his penis—and god help me, so am I." -- Lisa Carver, author of Drugs Are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir"Oedipus Wrecked is very dirty, very honest, and very funny. Did I mention it’s very dirty?" -- A.J. Jacobs, author of The Know-It-All
CL said Brief collection of funny and wildly dirty essays. Kevin Keck's collection of essays, Oedipus Wrecked, is insanely funny. This book, while much too brief, left me wanting to read more about Keck's sexual (mis)adventures. Like other authors I've enjoyed discovering, Keck seems to have gotten his start by publishing essays on Nerve.com, a popular web site you should check out. Many of the eassyas in this collection appeared on Nerve first.Whether it involves stealing his own mother's vibrator, taping himself masturbating (only to have his family accidentally view the evidence), or nearly. "Very Funny!" according to T. Payton. I did not expect it to be as funny as it was and also very honest. I loved it.. "Whacked" according to Kevin Killian. Cute book about the author's misadventures, mostly as a teen, with his body during a long, drawn out adolescence. Though he often gets caught, a la Jason Biggs in AMERICAN PIE, from which Keck's humor seems to derive, he never lets societal scorn stop him from exercising his rights to be sexual any which way he can. Some of these events are more mortifying than others, and some of them more unbelievable. In a dozen teen sex comedies we've seen an incriminating sex tape wind up on TV during our hero's family viewing hour, so when Keck a