You Know You Want This

Posted on 03 March 2018 by Kristen Roupenian

A compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complex and often darkly funny connections between gender, sex, and power across genres You Know You Want This brilliantly explores the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it captures the horrors that are done to them Among its pages are a couple who becomes obsessed with their friend hearing them have sex, then seeing them have sex until they can t have sex without him a ten year old whose birthday party takes a sinister turn when she wishes for something mean a woman who finds a book of spells half hidden at the library and summons her heart s desire a nameless, naked man and a self proclaimed biter who dreams of sneaking up behind and sinking her teeth into a green eyed, long haired, pink cheeked coworker.Spanning a range of genres and topics from the mundane to the murderous and supernatural these are stories about sex and punishment, guilt and anger, the pleasure and terror of inflicting and experiencing pain These stories fascinate and repel, revolt and arouse, scare and delight in equal measure And, as a collection, they point a finger at you, daring you to feel uncomfortable or worse, understood as if to say, You want this, right You know you want this. Best Read [ You Know You Want This ] by [ Kristen Roupenian ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Well The stories are well written They are But I didn t like this book It s so bleak There is no joy, no air in these stories There is nothing wrong with that but it didn t make for a great reading experience So many of the stories were flat Garish without heart or soul Violent and grotesque without purpose There isn t a character or story I will remember with fondness The characters were often flat, caricatures I can t say I will remember much of this book at all I really tried to Well The stories are well written They are But I didn t like this book It s so bleak There is no joy, no air in these stories There is nothing wrong with that but it didn t make for a great reading experience So many of the stories were flat Garish without heart or soul Violent and grotesque without purpose There isn t a character or story I will remember with fondness The characters were often flat, caricatures I can t say I will remember much of this book at all I really tri...Wow, what a crazy collection of short stories this was Kristen Roupenian s debut collection, You Know You Want This , is at turns frank, brutal, disturbing, kinky, poignant, emotional, and eye opening Her stories are about relationships of all kinds parental, romantic, sexual, those between friends and lovers, and even those between relative strangers The relationships are rarely equal, in that most often, someone has the upper hand, although it might not always last for long.This collection Wow, what a crazy collection of short stories this was Kristen Roupenian s debut collection, You Know You Want This , is at turns frank, brutal, disturbing, kinky, poignant, emotional, and eye opening Her stories are about relationships of all kinds parental, romantic, sexual, those between friends and lovers, and even those between relative strangers The relationships are rarely equal, in that most often, someone has the upper hand, although it might not always last for long.This collection reminded me a little of Carmen Maria Machado s fantastic collection Her Body and Other Parties , in that they explore imbalances of power between the genders, and a number of the stories have some sort of erotic charge A few of the 12 stories in this book are a little weirder than most, with violence, fear, and even the supernatural at their core, w...Racconti spiazzanti, racconti che ti mettono a disagio, che spezzano le convenzioni consolidate sulle relazioni, a cominciare dall assunto per il quale ci sia una perfetta corrispondenza di sentimenti tra due amanti, che amare significa prima di tutto comprendere, che il desiderio sia sempre trasparente e innocuo, che il sesso sia un atto d intimit L autrice mette a nudo l asimmetria presente in ogni dinamica relazionale contemporanea e per far questo mette in scena degli incubi, spesso grotte Racconti spiazzanti, racconti che ti mettono a disagio, che spezzano le convenzioni consolidate sulle relazioni, a cominciare dall assunto per il quale ci sia una perfetta corrispondenza di sentimenti tra due amanti, che amare significa prima di tutto comprendere, che il desiderio sia sempre trasparente e innocuo, che il sesso sia un atto d intimit L autrice mette a nudo l asimmetria presente in ogni dinamica relazionale cont...It s true I knew I wanted You Know You Want This , the instant I learned about it.I love the feel of the physical book I find the book cover and color delicious simply wanting to touch it I don t own it, accepting gifts ,but I spent a bit of time reading the stories while in the bookstore shhhh, I knew I wanted to listen to the large talented cast of readers by both men and women I almost bought this with my Audible monthly creditthat s how much I wanted to read it, It s true I knew I wanted You Know You Want This , the instant I learned about it.I love the feel of the physical book I find the book cover and color delicious simply wanting to touch it I don t own it, accepting gifts ,but I spent a bit of time reading the stories while in the bookstore shhhh, I knew I wanted to listen to the large talented cast of readers by both men and women I almost bought this with my Audible monthly creditthat s how much I wanted to read it, now , but my library carried the audibbook copy for free.so I saved my money and patiently waited my turn.Finally I had this book From the first story to the last, I was completely hook.I love the truthful quality t...The lack of genuine human intimacy, or even the hope of genuine human intimacy, is the most disappointing element in these suffocatingly ugly stories This collection reminds me of the stories I used to write with my best friend in 8th grade, when we were both sure we knew everything about sex, even though our knowledge was theoretical, and when we were also under the impression that sex, so adult and so secret, must be perverted, and a little gross.Great stories do exist that tell their stories The lack of genuine human intimacy, or even the hope of genuine human intimacy, is the most disappointing element in these suffocatingly ugly stories This collection reminds me of the stories I used to write with my best friend in 8th grade, when we were both sure we knew everything about sex, even though our knowledge was theoretical, and when we were also under the impression that sex, so adult and so secret, must be perverted, and a little gross.Great stories do exist that tell their stories through ugly sex and broken relationships Their greatness as stories, though, lies...I went into this equally curious and suspicious I applaud a writer who gets the internet talking about a short story , but the hype around Roupenian s debut collection has gained proportions that invite some kind of backlash Looking at the actual material, the book as a whole is a little uneven and in parts feels underdeveloped, but hell, this is an exciting writer who has the potential to go places Roupenian ventures into the darker recesses of the h I went into this equally curious and suspicious I applaud a writer who gets the internet talking about a short story , but the hype around Roupenian s debut collection has gained proportions that invite some kind of backlash Looking at the actual material, the book as a whole is a little uneven and in parts feels underdeveloped, but hell, this is an exciting writer who has the potential to go places Roupenian ventures into the darker recesses of the human mind, where all things weird, disgusting, and irrational reside, and her gift is to describe them in a way that the underlying tendencies of the characters suddenly seem alarmingly familiar or even relatable Another special q...I went into these stories braced not to like them I quite enjoyed Cat Person and the surrounding controversy, but heard these stories were full of unlikeable characters and disturbing situations And they are, but Kristen Roupenian has an uncanny sense of the inner lives of people their messy, uncomfortable, inner lives There is one story in here that feels like it doesn t fit unless you think of the characters as cat people And really, it does fit in the way that the male character is a wh I went into these stories braced not to like them I quite enjoyed Cat Person and the surrounding controversy, but heard these stories were full of unlikeable characters and disturbing situations And they are, but Kristen Roupenian has an uncanny sense of the inner lives of people their messy, uncomfortable, inner lives There is one story ...I think it s safe to say that the majority of people reading this book have done so simply because we read Cat Person last year and were curious what else the author of it might come up with I know that s why I picked it up.Cat Person was an interesting story in many ways For one, it was all too familiar to a lot of women, myself included It wasn t particularly well written in that the writing style was nothing extra special it just described what it needed to and got the job done , and t I think it s safe to say that the majority of people reading this book have done so simply because we read Cat Person last year and were curious what else the author of it might come up with I know that s why I picked it up.Cat Person was an interesting story in many ways For one, it was all too familiar to a lot of women, myself included It wasn t particularly well written in that the writing style was nothing extra special it just described what it needed to and got the job done , and the premise was super...Sono 12 racconti, di cui quattro veramente notevoli Cat personMordereLa prova nel portafiammiferiVoglia di morireGli altri dove l autrice introduce in maniera audace elementi grotteschi e visionari che si distaccano un po troppo dal realismo mi hanno tenuta pi distante e perplessa Per chi ha letto la scrittrice americana Shirley Jackson, cospicuamente pubblicata da Adelphi e a cui l autrice rende debito, si possono scorgere alcune affinit Cat person, il racconto che d il titolo alla raccolt Sono 12 racconti, di cui quattro veramente notevoli Cat personMordereLa prova nel portafiammiferiVoglia di morireGli altri dove l autrice introduce in maniera audace elementi grotteschi e visionari che si distaccano un po troppo dal realismo mi hanno tenuta pi distante e perplessa Per chi ha letto la scrittrice americana Shirley Jackson, cospicuamente pubblicata da Adelphi e a cui l autrice rende debito, si possono scorgere alcune affinit Cat person, il racconto che d il titolo alla raccolta, il pi famoso e gioca molto sulla possibilit di identificazione da parte del lettore perch chiunque potrebbe essersi trovato una o pi volte nella propria vita nel frangente narrato.Inizialmente pubblicato free su il New Yorker divent...If you were alive and online in 2018, you probably read and talked about Kristen Roupenian s short story, Cat Person Well, get ready for her debut collection, because it s here and ready to punch you in the gut or, perhapsaptly, bite your face off.Drawing comparisons to Carmen Maria Machado and Ottessa Moshfegh, this dark, perverse, macabre collection explores relationships with a distinct focus on power dynamics The subjects are mostly women, and they are at times the victims and the If you were alive and online in 2018, you probably read and talked about Kristen Roupenian s short story, Cat Person Well, get ready for her debut collection, because it s here and ready to punch you in the gut or, perhapsaptly, bite your face off.Drawing comparisons to Carmen Maria Machado and Ottessa Moshfegh, this dark, perverse, macabre collection explores relationships with a distinct focus on power dynamics The subjects are mostly women, and they are at times the victims and the villains.In one story, a young woman uses black magic to summon her dream man and then slowly ...

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03 March 2018

Kristen Roupenian