The Tyranny of Desire, Morty Shallman
The Tyranny of Desire, Morty Shallman
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The Tyranny of Desire
A Sexistential Erotic Dark Comedy

Author: Morty Shallman

Narrator: Morty Shallman

Unabridged: 4 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/23/2024


Synopsis

#1 Amazon Bestseller (Absurdist Fiction)#1 Amazon New Release (Humorous Dark Comedy)“A comedic masterpiece filled with droll humor, quick-witted dialogue, and colorful characters. The narrative keeps you in stitches and rarely allows your attention to waver.”— Readers’ Favorite“A ribald and incisive provocation… riotously bawdy.”— BookLife by Publishers Weekly“A lively but profane comic tale.”— Kirkus ReviewsWhat happens when a man tries to eliminate desire from his life — and discovers desire has other plans?In this fearless, fast-paced erotic dark comedy, Puchy Mushkin attempts the impossible: to purge himself of every dream, ambition, and craving. The result is a cascade of hilariously catastrophic misadventures that blur the line between absurdity, scandal, intimacy, and self-destruction.Wildly funny and provocatively candid, The Tyranny of Desire is brilliantly written smut — a true sexistential masterpiece.Narrated by the author with wit, bite, and full-throttle commitment, this audiobook delivers sharp humor, erotic tension, and psychological insight in equal measure.If you like your comedy daring, your erotica self-aware, and your anti-heroes spectacularly flawed, you’re in the right place.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nicole on February 17, 2023

This is the weirdest and most glorious book ever written and I want MORE. The Tyranny of Desire follows the protagonist Puchy on his quest to abolish desire from his life after being crucified by his ex-boyfriend. Puchy leaves his home in Chicago and travels to the city without desire, Los Angeles.......more

Goodreads review by K_IndieWoods on May 03, 2023

I am the perfect audience for Morty Shallman's The Tyranny of Desire. Why? Because I am that rare woman who likes to take it all in, every last lasciviously lubricious undoubtably dubious detail In fact I was delighted to devour this grandiloquent chronicle. Was I amazed, appalled, astonished? Indee......more

Goodreads review by Janet (iamltr) on February 03, 2023

Eh... I usually stay away from any book that warns you away because you just can't handle the edge lord content, but something about this one caught my attention. Slight spoilers ahead. So in here we have Puchy Mushkin. His claim to fame is his massive wingdinger. He is not a nice person. After trying......more

Goodreads review by Mohamed on January 15, 2023

If desire is the root of unhappiness, then it probably follows that lack of desire would remove all unhappiness, no? This is the crux of this farcical story, with its wild twists and turns, as the well-endowed Puchy tries to get to the bottom of his endless lack of direction or passion for anything,......more

Goodreads review by Bethany on January 24, 2023

This novel reads like the love child of Holden Caulfield and Humbert Humbert grew up to be a sexual deviant, and then spiraled into a full blown existential crisis as the protagonist of the raunchiest Chuck Palahniuk story you could ever imagine. It was a fast, wildly entertaining ride with a bizarr......more