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Wasn't expecting this to go how it did, thought it was going to be a mockumentary type format but it was so good narratively, horrific/emotional in its content, and the navigation of slaughter...process(?) was intense.

Next horror book club's pick, I liked this one! A surprisingly smooth read for all the human meat processing. Fuck Marcos.

This book was harsh. A virus makes animal consumption deadly to humans. Quickly, society turns to cannibalism as a way to feign normalcy. Marcos Tejo, the protagonist, is an important man in the slaughterhouse industry, and is dealing with a lot of stressors in his personal life. The novel takes you through his encounters and relationships (professional & intimate) in a world that has accepted the unthinkable. Great book. Read at your own risk.

Hello! I haven‘t logged into my Litsy in over 3 years! I‘ve been reading feverishly this year, so it‘s a must to be amongst this community again :)

Has anyone read this book?? I‘m only on chapter 4. It‘s simultaneously captivating and repulsive, and I have mixed feelings about reading it 🙃

This book did what it was trying to do--satarize and horrify--quite well, but deals with topics so appalling that I would have a hard time recommending it. A virus has rendered animal meat deadly. "Special meat," ie meat from human livestock, is now the norm. I have a hard time believing humans would turn to cannibalism so readily when vegetarianism and lab grown meat is so accessible, but I guess that wasn't the point. This is satire after all.

This book sticks with you. It grabs hold and doesn‘t let go. It churns your stomach and brings to life the horror of a society that has okayed cannibalism. Definitely not for the weak stomached. Even though the subject is grim and horrible, the writing is beautiful.

@Bookzombie
I saw this on Reddit and it made me think of Tender is the Flesh. Then it made you think of you so I thought I'd share 😂

#NewYearWhoDis

4.7⭐️ I can‘t say that I enjoyed the story because that is not the right word. But it was good in all the wrong ways. As disturbing as it was, It was not as difficult as I thought it was going to be to read. This also could be that I just recently read a different book that made me so incredibly nauseous and sick that anything is better. However, that ending was messed up. This is also one of my #roll100 for the month.

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My full podcast review: https://anchor.fm/alisbooknookcorner/episodes/Tender-Is-The-Flesh-by-Agustina-Ba...

My full blog review: https://suspensebookreviews.home.blog/2022/02/13/tender-is-the-flesh-by-agustina...

It feels weird to write a glowing review about a book based on cannibalism, but this was a great read. Is it dark? Yes, some of the darkest prose I've read. Was it descriptive and gross? Definitely yes, but as a family of vegans and vegetarians now, who grew up on a farm and has slaughtered animals, I feel without those descriptions, the book wouldn't have the impact it does. And oh man, what an ending 😱

I'm not sure I'll ever forget this book.

🎧 … ok … in a near future a virus makes all animal meat poisonous to humans.

Cannibalism is declared legal.

Marcos works at a human processing plant. This is his story.

This is a well written story about the horrible things humans will do to each other for a multitude of reasons including saving their own skin.

Humans treated like animals.

It has something to say about humanity & is very graphic.

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My #roll100 for February

I finally finished reading one if my #NewYearWhoDis books. It only took me 2 weeks to read it. 😅

Why @Bookzombie ? Why would you make me read this? This is one of the most messed up books I've read in awhile. It was good though.

What would happen if all animals died or became inedible? This books offers the interesting theory that cannibalism would be legalized and regulated. It gets dark. Real dark.

@monalyisha

Gotta catch up on some #NewYearWhoDis reviews! I‘ll start here.

What did I just read?? THAT ENDING 😨

In fact, I mostly had a shocked look on my face through the whole thing. Not overly long, but this is not for the faint of heart and it‘s bleak. Crazy, disturbing, and horrifying, yet it is still a thought provoking book. Pretty sure I won‘t want to reread it though!

I know this is supposed to be shocking and disturbing but I didn't really see it that way. Either I'm just incredibly desensitized or have absolutely no faith in humanity as a whole but if the last few years have shown me anything it's that humans will absolutely turn on each other in a time of crisis. If the meat we currently breed for food becomes toxic would we turn to our own as a replacement? I believe yes. Sad but true in my eyes.

This book actually gave me nightmares. The idea is very chilling especially since we have been dealing with a pandemic as of recent that we never expected. The idea of a disease effecting animals and turning humans into cannibals is so dark, but the way it was written was just what made it so terrifying. It was so believable and the ending was what I expected, but still really hard to read.

Decision made!

#JoyousJanuary #SnowDay

What am I reading this weekend? I'm really not sure 🤔

Finished Year of the Witching this morning and I should be reading The Luminous Dead or The Women in the Walls

BUT

I kind of think I'm in the mood for Tender is the Flesh and my hold for Night Film came in this morning. So that might just be my plan instead. Let's see where the snowy wind takes me!

#WeekendReading @Andrew65

I‘m going in!!

#NewYearWhoDis

Gross!

The writing in this one is great and it does exactly what it sets out to do and that's shock & disgust.

I appreciate the brilliance of it as a piece of thought-provoking literature but it's depressing, evil and filled with hopelessness, i certainly won't read it again.

I still recommend it though, but it's not for everyone. It gets to the heart of the subject matter which is what a great book should do.

#ThoughtfulThursday thanks for the tag @bthegood @DarkMina 😁

1️⃣ My reading goals this year are to read 150 books, that's 30 more than last year.

2️⃣ I'd have to say Growth, because I grew a lot spiritually, I learned a lot about the System we live in; became more aware of the corruption and greed in government, bankers and corporations. 💉🚫

3️⃣ I'm liking it but it's incredibly bleak, it's 1984/Brave New World type Dystopia.

I tag all!!

I have no idea how to rate this 🤷🏻‍♀️
It‘s … definitely well-written. I won‘t soon forget it. And the ending… what did THAT mean?
But it‘s A LOT. Like, too much. Really explicit ~ really detailed ~ But … did she have to go THAT far???
I can‘t really recommend it. If I told anyone to read this book, and they weren‘t down with it, they would never trust me again.
So… read at your own risk … if you are okay with being deeply disturbed.

I think this might be a case where I maybe overestimated my emotional readiness for the content of the book. It's an interesting enough read in a lot of ways, but it's also a real horror show. Contains heavy description of cannibalism (obviously, that is basically the main plot line)

I‘m going in … 😳

My last dabbling with this… subject matter, let‘s say … was Earthlings, and I did not love it.

But I am giving this a try 🤞🏻

“I don't get why a person's smile is considered attractive. When someone smiles, they're showing their skeleton.”

#WorstOf21 👎 Had to share my book duds of 2021

•Worst Book- Tender is the Flesh
•Biggest Let Down- Authority
•DNF- ACOMAF and Cerulean Sea
•So Dry It Chapped My Lips- Andromeda
•So Boring I almost Died- Beauty&Beast

I'm scared but let's go

It‘s almost time for #NewYearWhoDis 2022 and I‘ve finally sat down and made my TBR! I usually go with a TBR of about 5 from the list I received as the goal for January...and then see what happens! The NYPL will be supplying at least of 3 these (via Kindle) and I can‘t wait to get started 😊

My list this year is courtesy of @TheLibrarian 📚📖💙

Had to share a closeup of this incredible spoon and that sticker! I died laughing 🤣🤣🤣

Love it!

@beemagical @teebe #creepychristmas

Provocative, well-written, and a true page-turner. The author uses relentlessly nauseating details to bring to life her idea of socially accepted cannibalism. A bonkers concept in theory, her thought experiment shows that it doesn‘t take much for the pieces to fall into place. (I also felt reminded of Michel Faber‘s Under the Skin and the "mercy/murky“ scene in particular. It might be time for a reread.)

In a bleak dystopian future a deadly virus sees all animals gone but the desire for meat remains and the human meat trade is a legitimised industry. Really jarring amd uncomfortable to read at first....

This book is horrible, terrible, and impossible to put down. The ending is unexpected and jolting. A dystopian future where cannibalism is socially accepted. #Horror #TenderIsTheFlesh #Cannibalism

I can only recommend this book to you if:

- You like horror and have a strong stomach.
- You are already vegan/vegetarian or at least familiar with the horror that is the modern meat industry.
- You are a big fan of the proverbial mind fuck.

So. It‘s the future. Animals are all poisonous. Humans, the insane species that we are, have moved on to replace farm animals with people.

I was horrified. Appalled. Could not stop listening.

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Nothing was shocking or surprising. The characters lacked depth. It was a short read, time gaps and lack of character development left me disappointed. The writing style is great, it is very readable and easy to consume.

Vile vegan propaganda written to evoke a sense of extreme disgust in factory farming, stuffed full of cruelty, rape, torture and cannibalism. I couldn‘t really take this novel seriously because it was so extreme and over the top. And boring and kind of flat. This book didn‘t effect me like it did most, I found it ridiculous and the ending was sad and left you feeling empty.
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I‘m officially in a reading slump :(

Audiobook pick:
Wow. 😳 Very disturbing but couldn't put it down. Pretty graphic and gory.

Literally could not put this book down. Sickening

Thank you Jessie @erzascarletbookgasm for your lovely present! This is definitely some potentially gruesome reading I'll be looking forward to sometime soon 😆 It was a lovely surprise to receive this today! You're very kind😘❤️

I suppose you need to like horror/have a strong stomach — but if you‘ve watched/like The Walking Dead, it‘s about along those lines…but with more cannibalism. An interesting dystopian take on government corruption and the horrors of humanity.

Hands-down the most grotesque, intense, and viscerally disturbing book I have ever read. Don't eat before, during, or after. Triggers include sexual abuse, rape, cannibalism, assult, animal abuse, racism, and I'm sure more that I'm forgetting. All that being said, if you can stomach it, it's very well done and I would definitely recommend it. Like Requiem for a Dream, you only need to experience once. #tenderistheflesh #horror #dystopian

Book club tonight! Wine pairing in pic.

Almost everyone‘s on the bandwagon on this one! We had a super intellectual book club disc. which largely ignored the fact that this book…isn‘t great. It‘s a metaphor for many things, one of which is how we legitimize atrocity. It pushes the limit with descriptions that are viscerally disgusting. But the writing is often really quite sloppy. The ending saved the book from being a straight pan for me.

Jumping on the bandwagon with this one, so far so good. I like dystopian future books and a lot of people can‘t finish this so I need to see what the hype is.

Y‘all. O M G…. I- I- don‘t know what to say. All I can say is that I feel physically ill. I don‘t know if I will ever be able to look at let alone eat a piece of meat again. In all seriousness this is a schooling in the horrors of the meat trade with a deplorably skin-crawling twist. I‘m just not in the right headspace for this book at the moment but it doesn‘t escape me how important, compelling & relevant it is. This one will just have to wait.

I am now a vegetarian. That is all.

His sister‘s words are like dry leaves piled up in a corner, rotting…Her words get stuck inside her as though trapped in vacuum-packed plastic bags…His niece‘s words are like pieces of glass melting in extreme heat, like ravens pecking out eyes in slow motion…full of words like splintered trees and silent tornadoes…words smell of detained humidity, of confinement, intense cold…words are like boxes filled with blank paper.

I could go on.

#midyearfaves

The upcoming days I will be posting 1 of my 10 favorite books of the year so far - with a few thoughts on them.

This is of course a horrible book but to me it felt so fresh. An unthinkable dystopian scenario made kind of imaginable. People try to deal with the situation in which cannibalism is the new normal. Some enjoy it, come commercialize it, some try to behave humanly.