So worth it, I devoured this book.
This is a powerful reason to love the English language.

I had this book in my wishlist for a while. I have come to undestand that misleading marketing is indeed present in literature, I guess I’ve been naive.
You can tell that this book is an exaggeration, with more fiction than truth, an elaborate attempt to shock and disturb. I don’t find it believable, actually I would if it was marketed as fiction, but this is just boring, no wonder the movie was not successful.

There are two different types of writers, those that leave us in awe over their use of their language, while their stories are not so original, and the ones that might not use the language this way but their stories seem to make you actually FEEL something, and you can tell that the author was honest while not having perfect domain of writing rules. I think that if Miranda July had gone and tried to be the first type of writer, she would’ve gotten terrible reviews, but if we understand that the girl is a performance artist, and not a english major, or MFA graduate, we can see that they are just honest creative stories, and her style is not disrrupted, and yea.. she made a cool website for her book. She was linked enough to go from “hey check out this cool website” to “she’s only selling her book because of the website”.
Funny phenomenon. Anyway, there are good stories and bad stories in the book, like in every anthology.. but the good ones are quite good!

I am re-learning english with this book….

This is the type of book that makes me mad. It’s the type of feminism I completely hate, however, I am learning about novel structure and dialog, especially when they give such long “oh poor me, back in those days, I couldn’t choose between having a family or a career, I never chose my life….” dicourses.

This book is funny to read because it was written in 1990-something and back then it must have been amazingly innovative and it must have pushed the line for all those sillicon valley people who were getting ready to take the world by storm. It’s almost antropological!

I was browsing through the nuveautés in the National Library of Quebec and I bumped into this book. It seemed to have been checked out so many times.. I read the first paragraph, not the back cover, but the first paragraph and I was marveled and the easiness, the fluidity, the stroytelling.. wow..
I was in a reading rut, trying hard to read big literature figures and forgot how valuable are the new people, the natural story tellers…
Beautiful!

I got sick of it by the 15th page.. it’s true, she tries so hard.. after she writes an anecdote she unwinds it until there is no more “funny” in it.. geez..annoying.

Nobody should live without it. A true musician, a wonderful songwriter and a name truly original. Joan as Police Woman..
she will be the icon of 2006

This is the type of music you can take with you for years and years and you will never feel it is old, even though it has the old bluish feeling. Wonderful.