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product_id: 20490043
title: "Cows"
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# Cows

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Review: A fever dream with important commentary - This book, albeit feeling like a fever dream and being very disturbing at times, really provoked thought on different subjects that are relevant today. The thirst for power, becoming what you hated, spreading what you hated, using people how you were used, alienation, and societal decay. My advice, if you start it then finish it. The message honestly wasn't easy to see until finishing the entire book; then it all connected like the final puzzle piece being added
Review: A good story but has some problems - This was my first ever "extreme horror" story I've read and I wasn't disappointed. HOWEVER, there were some issues. I noticed right away there were grammatical errors. I would say around 2-3 per chapter I read. There were a few run-on sentences, and the word "till" showed up a few times, but it should be spelled 'til, since it's an abbreviation of the word until. In a vacuum, it's not the biggest deal in the world, but it definitely breaks my immersion. Now for the story. It was good and bad at certain points. Even though I'm new to the extreme horror genre, I enjoyed a few of the scenes. There were scenes that made my stomach drop and my face scrunch out of disgust. This may sound like a bad thing, but I most definitely enjoyed it. But, some of the gross scenes were just kind of gross for the sake of being gross, instead of being thought provoking. (Spoilers ahead) There's scenes where the main character is fantasizing about living a normal life like he sees on TV, and times where the author highlights how horrible his mother and coworkers are. These scenes are terrific. They highlight the urban decay that was advertised when I bought it. The way his coworker casually talked about how a cow had left a scar on his lip after attempting, let's just say, "romantic?" actions with the cow and it bit him (deserved). It really highlights the depravity and evil that's in us all. It's a horrible feeling to read something truly evil and think to yourself, "that's a very human thing to do," and it really makes me think. BUUUUUT—there were many times the author mentioned poop in a very.. very detailed description. The other stuff, like his coworker, his mom, his disabled dog, and his dream to be like the people on TV are all thought provoking and deep to think about. But the poop stuff is just.. gross to be gross. Theres no symbolism, no poetry, just.. poop. Why do I need an uncomfortably detailed scene of the main character pooping. It's very clearly the authors poorly hidden fetish and it almost ruins the story. Without the poop stuff, this book would be close to perfect. But, a good chunk of the scenes and poor production make the book ALMOST unreadable. It's not a book I'd recommend to someone, but I could definitely find some enjoyment in the story.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #15,602 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #80 in Fiction Urban Life #261 in Dystopian Fiction (Books) #363 in Horror Literature & Fiction |
| Customer Reviews | 3.1 out of 5 stars 4,018 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A fever dream with important commentary
*by K***R on April 10, 2025*

This book, albeit feeling like a fever dream and being very disturbing at times, really provoked thought on different subjects that are relevant today. The thirst for power, becoming what you hated, spreading what you hated, using people how you were used, alienation, and societal decay. My advice, if you start it then finish it. The message honestly wasn't easy to see until finishing the entire book; then it all connected like the final puzzle piece being added

### ⭐⭐⭐ A good story but has some problems
*by K***L on September 29, 2025*

This was my first ever "extreme horror" story I've read and I wasn't disappointed. HOWEVER, there were some issues. I noticed right away there were grammatical errors. I would say around 2-3 per chapter I read. There were a few run-on sentences, and the word "till" showed up a few times, but it should be spelled 'til, since it's an abbreviation of the word until. In a vacuum, it's not the biggest deal in the world, but it definitely breaks my immersion. Now for the story. It was good and bad at certain points. Even though I'm new to the extreme horror genre, I enjoyed a few of the scenes. There were scenes that made my stomach drop and my face scrunch out of disgust. This may sound like a bad thing, but I most definitely enjoyed it. But, some of the gross scenes were just kind of gross for the sake of being gross, instead of being thought provoking. (Spoilers ahead) There's scenes where the main character is fantasizing about living a normal life like he sees on TV, and times where the author highlights how horrible his mother and coworkers are. These scenes are terrific. They highlight the urban decay that was advertised when I bought it. The way his coworker casually talked about how a cow had left a scar on his lip after attempting, let's just say, "romantic?" actions with the cow and it bit him (deserved). It really highlights the depravity and evil that's in us all. It's a horrible feeling to read something truly evil and think to yourself, "that's a very human thing to do," and it really makes me think. BUUUUUT—there were many times the author mentioned poop in a very.. very detailed description. The other stuff, like his coworker, his mom, his disabled dog, and his dream to be like the people on TV are all thought provoking and deep to think about. But the poop stuff is just.. gross to be gross. Theres no symbolism, no poetry, just.. poop. Why do I need an uncomfortably detailed scene of the main character pooping. It's very clearly the authors poorly hidden fetish and it almost ruins the story. Without the poop stuff, this book would be close to perfect. But, a good chunk of the scenes and poor production make the book ALMOST unreadable. It's not a book I'd recommend to someone, but I could definitely find some enjoyment in the story.

### ⭐ Disgusting, but unimpressive
*by B***S on June 9, 2020*

I like a wide variety of different kinds of books, but I gravitate toward horror. Within that genre, I like it all. I like the quiet and psychological as well as the extreme and disturbing. I read this book after it was recommended to be as one of the most disturbing books ever written. That description was too tempting to pass up. However, the book is not really disturbing so much as disgusting. That, too, has its place in literature, especially within the horror genre, but it needs to be backed up with some sort of literary merit, which I ultimately found this novel to lack. Cows doesn't really read like a novel in the way most of us would understand the word. Rather, it reads as simply an attempt to break as many taboos as possible in a short 200-ish pages. Violence? Check. Incest? Yep. Bestiality? Check. Scatological humor? Double check. It's as if the author composed a list of all the vile possibilities in the world and crammed them into a single work without much regard to how to spin them into a cohesive story. Admittedly, if your fortitude is strong enough, the book will keep you reading if for no other reason than to see where it goes next. Unfortunately "where it goes next" isn't really anywhere at all. Rather than progressing, the novel continually moves sideways through over-the-top scenes that, furthermore, fail to actually build to a crescendo but instead fizzle as if the author ran out of new ideas with which to disgust the reader half-way through the book. Don't get me wrong. Some of the scenes did have a certain stomach-turning charm for fans of extreme fiction, but the plot was disjointed and ultimately went nowhere, and the characters were both flat and utterly (or, perhaps, udderly) devoid of redeeming qualities. I don't just mean the lead anti-hero of the book. I mean literally every single character in the entire novel. Anti-heroes can be interesting, and not all characters have to be likable, or even the slightest bit sympathetic. But for a book to actually be fundamentally disturbing at a deeper emotional level rather than just mildly disgusting at the superficial level, the reader needs to at least care what happens to the characters. These characters are too unlikable for the reader to root for and too incompetent for the reader to seriously root against. A book without strong characterization can also be saved by an interesting plot, but there really isn't much of a plot here. Yes, there is a plot at the most superficial of levels, and it actually begins as if the plot might take some interesting turns. But rather than living up to its early promise, it devolves rapidly into an over-the-top romp that doesn't merely strain the bounds of the suspension of disbelief; it obliterates them entirely. One can easily imagine the author reveling in his attempt to disgust the reader--and sure, those readers who didn't come of age reading far more extreme horror novels that actually manage to disturb rather than merely to disgust might find themselves queasy by the end--and there's something respectable about a book that deliberately breaks taboos, but I simply need more of a reason to care about a work than merely the fact that it does break some taboos. There needs to be a reason for it. In this case, I fail completely to detect what that reason might be.

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