Sex Goblin, Lauren Cook
Sex Goblin, Lauren Cook
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Sex Goblin

Author: Lauren Cook

Narrator: Lauren Cook

Unabridged: 2 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/12/2025


Synopsis

A weird, wild ride across non-narrative vignettes and dryly funny aphorisms exploring the shared intensity of violence and the erotic.

As if hauled up squirming from the bowels of the internet, Sex Goblin metabolizes sex writing, popular culture, and autofiction to present the real and the imagined as equally surreal possibilities. In the narrator's childlike voice, all things become both mundane and strange—a child and their dog fused after a car accident, moments of tenderness amidst frat hazing, witches, and hiking accidents. At turns charming and bizarre, Sex Goblin channels sexual violence through the lens of the absurd to alchemize shame and abuse into something that registers differently than trauma. Sex Goblin is a barely factual but deeply felt field guide to relationships and relatability.

Contains mature themes.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Natalie on May 20, 2024

The knife's edge of sex and violence, comedy and profoundly blunt misery, mania and self-loathing, reduced into book form with a structural approach that renders—with the most lucid accuracy I've ever seen—the whiplash of scrolling a social media feed and seeing someone post their most inane dumb th......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on June 08, 2024

I am truly obsessed with this book. Feels so sexy and red and insane and I don't even know where to begin. Like something that doesn't exist meets random thoughts meets gossip and cock and like it made sense that the book was entirely red and the paper smelled like being high and the book felt that......more

Goodreads review by Laura on January 02, 2025

There were interesting moments but overall my emotions about this book can best be described as:What.......more

Goodreads review by katryna on August 19, 2024

this was my in between book my heartbreak book my half a bottle of malbec on my bedside table book my gross book my vermilion book my i-love-when-people-are-weird book my oh-my-god-i’m-so-tired book i actually liked this quite a bit even the parts that felt elementary felt intentional and at the end......more

Goodreads review by Arcadia on June 21, 2024

"my thoughts are my Bible I don't even question them at all and I'm always right" Really very good. I found this book incredibly life-affirming, a read that arrived to me in a moment I was feeling crushed by life and the woes of being a sex goblin myself. Laughed out loud a lot reading this and sent......more