Teh Gay Count: BRUTAL UNCUT

Book in my mailbox a minute ago:

Description on back of book:

Adult film legend Aiden Shaw follows up his bestselling memoir, My Undoing, with a searing look at sexual excess. In Brutal Uncut Paul's life is spinning out of control with his hardcore partying, leading him to seek out abusive and degrading sex. But this comes with a price — one that nearly destroys him on his hazardous path to redemption.

Brutal Uncut, available at Powell's for $14.95.

Or, if you're the resident gay, here at the EW.

Just so you know, Shaw's other book titles are Brutal (um ... hm), Wasted and Boundaries.

You know what's hilarious? Edmund White, Blake Morrison and Simon Callow blurbed the book. Seriously.

Callow:

Somewhere deep inside its harrowing pages is an unexpected quality: innocence. It takes you all the way with it down the vertiginous tunnels of the story.

Morrison:

His accounts of sex, drugs, sado-masochism, therapy and clubbing are brutally candid ...

(I love the juxtaposition of S&M with therapy ... and clubbing!)

White:

If you enjoy reading about young male prostitutes and their lurid exploits, you'll love Aiden Shaw's new novel.

OK, well, I have nothing particularly against S&M oriented, therapy-going, drug-taking, tunnel-burrowing young male prostitutes, but it's true that I'm probably not dying to read about 'em. So if you want this book, write me a 100-word email explaining why you deserve it.

suzi at eugeneweekly dot com

I look forward to your super-gay missives.