The introduction to this book promises that Pierre Guyotat's "Eden Eden Eden" will scar you. Unfortunately, for me, it does no such thing. Monsieur Guyotat should have known that an endless barrage of shocking and outrageous imagery, far from scarring the reader, ultimately desensitizes the reader to its violence and sexual perversities. If Guyotat had simply spaced out the violence and perversities in between far less shocking passages, he might have achieved his desired result. I found this book to be so boring and repititious that I gave up somewhere around page 50. In fact I suspect that there's something rather comical about the whole text. Not recommended.