Buy used: $103.29

FREE delivery August 18 - 21. Details

Select delivery location

Used: Good | Details

Sold by ICTBooks

Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

Have one to sell?

Sell on Amazon

Flip to back Flip to front

See all 2 images

Follow the Author

Joey Comeau

The Girl Who Couldn't Come Mass Market Paperback – January 1, 2011

by Joey Comeau (Author)

4.3 57 ratings

See all formats and editions

This is a book of dirty stories. They are weird and fun and often bewildering, like sex itself.

Print length

82 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Createspace Independent Pub
Publication date

January 1, 2011
Dimensions

5.25 x 0.25 x 7.75 inches
ISBN-10

1460920147
ISBN-13

978-1460920145
See all details

Joey Comeau
61
Paperback
18 offers from $1.48
Joey Comeau
55
Paperback
15 offers from $9.41
JOEY COMEAU
5
Paperback
7 offers from $59.00
Joey Comeau
111
Paperback
34 offers from $3.74
Joey Comeau
144
Paperback
49 offers from $2.25
Joey Comeau
68
Paperback
36 offers from $3.00

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Createspace Independent Pub (January 1, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 82 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1460920147
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1460920145
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.84 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.25 x 7.75 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,394,812 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #84,898 in Erotic Literature & Fiction

Customer Reviews:
4.3 57 ratings

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Videos

Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video!

Upload your video

Important information

To report an issue with this product, click here.

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Joey Comeau

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Joey Comeau (born September 26, 1980) is a Canadian writer. He is best known for writing the text of the webcomic A Softer World.

Comeau currently resides in Toronto, Ontario. He has a degree in linguistics.

- from Wikipedia.

(photo by Bryanna Reilly)

Customer reviews

4.3 out of 5

57 global ratings

5 star
4 star
3 star
2 star
1 star 0% (0%)		0%

How customer reviews and ratings work

Sort reviews by

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

A. B. Abbott

Not exactly porn, but definitely pornographic

Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2011

Verified Purchase

I love Joey Comeau's writing, so I bought this book within a week of its publication, then I read the whole thing in about four hours and I loved it through and through.

The thing about Joey Comeau's writing, especially when it comes to sex, is that he does not shy away from depicting things realistically. There were no extensive descriptions of glistening sweat clinging to thighs or bosoms spilling out over the tops of corsets. Joey's pornography shows sex for what it really is: strange, fun, sometimes disappointing, often surprising, always interesting.

I would not say all of these pieces are specifically erotic, as the sex bits are usually detracted or interrupted by some strange or disturbing thing (the main character's OCD or the fact that one of the characters is a ghost, for example). Also, it's not traditional pornography because, for the most part, Joey definitely focuses on either the characters or the plot much more than the actual sex itself (a plus in my book).

I want to add, though, for those who aren't familiar with Joey's writing, some of the stories contain violence and are sometimes fairly disturbing (Christmas Tree Pornography and The Steps spring to mind), but most are good-natured and they are all, of course, very well-written (my favorite line of the book? "She was a mirror in the sun"), and at the end of the day, that's all that really matters.

10 people found this helpful

Helpful

Aussiescribbler

Sometimes sweet, sometimes disturbing, never boring...

Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2017

Verified Purchase

This collection of short stories deals with various kinds of sexual awkwardness. Although some of the stories are briefly explicit, it isn't particularly erotic. Most are written in the first person, with the narrators being sometimes male and sometimes female, which, at least once, caused me to have to re-orient my imagination as a character put their hand down their pants and found something different from what I was expecting.

The stories range from sweet (the girl who couldn't come, edith) to disturbing (ghosts, christmas tree pornography). There are some strange fetishes, along with more conventional heterosexual and homosexual couplings. There are transitions from realism to dream logic. And there is a male time-travelling stalker hoping to persuade Patricia Highsmith to have sex with him even though she was a lesbian.

You have to give Joey Comeau credit for imagination. This short collection of stories may leave you feeling disorientated, but it won't bore you.

2 people found this helpful

Helpful

Stullberg

Sexy by suggestion

Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2012

Verified Purchase

The author says this book is full of "dirty stories," and that's true, but don't expect a bunch of throbbing whosits or heaving whatsits. The sex here is occasionally explicit, and always unashamed, but never cheap. Comeau keeps the lovers (of all gender combos, incidentally) human throughout; they may be plowing each other mercilessly, but they're never reduced to floating, disembodied genitalia. The real artistry in these stories is that, while sex is certainly the medium of the plots, it's never the point. These are stories about sensitive human interactions... told over boning.

Helpful

Tiggum

Not his best, still great

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2011

Verified Purchase

If it were by another author, I might give this book five stars, but the truth is, I expect more of Mr Comeau, because he so often delivers.

There is, I should say, not a story in this book that I didn't enjoy; my only real complaint is that there wasn't anything that I really thought was amazing. Definitely worth getting if you like Joey's work, or if you like weird, sexy stories, I just can't quite give it the full five stars.

2 people found this helpful

Helpful

Tara

Good, Nerdy Fun

Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2011

Verified Purchase

I bought this based on the strength of Joey's comic, A Softer World. This book exceeded any expectations I had. It's a collection of short stories about normal people with not quite normal quirks rangeing from needing Johny Cash music to come to ghost sex. I was pleasantly surprised to find stories from male and female POV as well as a full spectrum of sexualities without bias. It was also unabashed about the actual sex. I don't recall any flower-like vaginas or wood jokes. Though I must admit that I personally found most of the stories slightly to disturbing to be arousing. Um, so in summary: super enjoyable, funny, and strange stories about sex or wanting to have sex.

26 people found this helpful

Helpful

Endsong

"like sex itself"

Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2011

Verified Purchase

I don't buy books online very often. Living in South America, shipping is expensive and the process is a bit nerve-wrecking (that's the reason I don't own a ebook reader, either). Not to mention I had already read this book almost in its entirety. I still bought it, and I'm glad I did. It's that good.

While the sex itself is very well written, when I closed the book it wasn't the sex that stuck with me - it was the characters.

"The Meteor Shower" is my absolute favorite. I didn't want the story to end, I wanted it to be a hundred pages long.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Shawn Vincent Rayon

An interesting gift

Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2014

Verified Purchase

I bought this for a friend of mine, but read it myself first because I'm a terrible person. How much you'll enjoy the book depends on what you're looking to get out of it, but they'll be at least one story that you'll love, I'm sure. Maybe consider the implications before giving it as a gift, though?

Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2012

Verified Purchase

the girl who couldn't come was pure
obsessive-compulsive sexiness
stories are themed around people
who interface with sex in unusual
curious
and sometimes downright fascinating ways

the stories are mostly very short;
some i think as 3-4 pages
which is perfect if you have
attention deficit (whether it be disordered or not)
obsession-compulsions (whether they be disordered or not) or
a subway ride to work (whether it be disordered or not)
or maybe you just like twitter a lot
i don't know

3 people found this helpful

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

Ryan

Come On Comeau!

Reviewed in Canada on December 7, 2015

Verified Purchase

Joey Comeau knows my sense of humour. I've loved all his books and would recommend them to any alternative lovers. Comeau's humour is both absurd and dark and yet manages to take the reader to a pithy existential place. These short stories really are worth it and I will be reading them again and again. I'd recommend this to anyone with an "open" sense of humour ... this might not be the book to get for granny unless she's into leather.

Amazon Customer

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on August 6, 2016

Verified Purchase

hell ya

Deb

Erotic stories for kinky geeks.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 12, 2014

Verified Purchase

I liked this author's other writing (lockpick pornography is one of my favorite books) and the softer world webcomic. This is exactly what I expected from his previous writing. He has his own style of weird and writes characters who are strange but endearing.

absentbabinski

More good stuff

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 27, 2012

Verified Purchase

TGWCC is sexy and weird and awkward and awesome. Joey knows how to write the kind of sex scenes that are pornographic but speak to the reader about more than sex.

See more reviews

Follow the Author

The Girl Who Couldn't Come Mass Market Paperback – January 1, 2011

Popular titles by this author

Product details

Videos

Important information

About the author

Joey Comeau

Customer reviews

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Top reviews from other countries