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isaacmm43's review against another edition
3.0
For this one I have a story.
I am a huge fan of Vine. Way back in 2017, when this book came out, Vine had been dead for about a year, but YouTube Vine compilations were doing numbers. In the summer, I vividly remember having my first job and quoting vines with my coworkers. Shoutout to Iman, Ari, and Maya.
That year, my friend Courtney considered getting Milk and Vine for me as a 17th birthday present. She decided not to because she knew it had a lot of bad words and was afraid one of my little siblings would read it accidentally. Since then, I have desperately wanted to get a copy. But for reasons that elude me, it feels like "cheating" to just order a book online. So every time I went to secondhand bookstores, I would check for Milk and Vine. I wanted to capture it in the wild. But it's a surprisingly hard book to find.
Last week (on May 17th, according to my YouTube history) I was feeling bored of my regular YouTube circuit. I needed something nostalgic. I decided to watch a Vine compilation, for old times' sake. It was so fun. A blast from the past, if you will. It led me to a full blown if short-lived Vine renaissance.
Today, I found myself in a Half Price Books after work. I made a perfunctory sweep of the poetry section because, as I've expressed on Goodreads before, I love reading self-published poetry. I noticed a slim little volume with no title on the spine. I was interested--this is the kind of thing you see with self-published work all the time. I pulled it out. IT WAS MILK AND VINE. And for only $3.50. I felt like I had won the lottery!
The whole volume took me like 10 minutes to read. It's utterly stupid and the authors didn't even attempt to make the Vines look like actual Rupi Kaur poems. The formatting is terrible, and the actual Vines they chose to rip-off aren't particularly poetic. Except the one about "finna get crunk, eyebrows on fleek," which is somewhere between a modern Whitman and a modern Dickinson. The drawings are dumb and pixelated and obviously made using MS Paint in the span of an afternoon.
With that said, it's not often that a book really fills a niche like this one did. It was exactly what my soul needed. Some would call it a fortuitous circumstance but we in the know call it a "God moment." 3 stars.
(If you read this, my longest review, all the way through then comment your favorite Vine.)
I am a huge fan of Vine. Way back in 2017, when this book came out, Vine had been dead for about a year, but YouTube Vine compilations were doing numbers. In the summer, I vividly remember having my first job and quoting vines with my coworkers. Shoutout to Iman, Ari, and Maya.
That year, my friend Courtney considered getting Milk and Vine for me as a 17th birthday present. She decided not to because she knew it had a lot of bad words and was afraid one of my little siblings would read it accidentally. Since then, I have desperately wanted to get a copy. But for reasons that elude me, it feels like "cheating" to just order a book online. So every time I went to secondhand bookstores, I would check for Milk and Vine. I wanted to capture it in the wild. But it's a surprisingly hard book to find.
Last week (on May 17th, according to my YouTube history) I was feeling bored of my regular YouTube circuit. I needed something nostalgic. I decided to watch a Vine compilation, for old times' sake. It was so fun. A blast from the past, if you will. It led me to a full blown if short-lived Vine renaissance.
Today, I found myself in a Half Price Books after work. I made a perfunctory sweep of the poetry section because, as I've expressed on Goodreads before, I love reading self-published poetry. I noticed a slim little volume with no title on the spine. I was interested--this is the kind of thing you see with self-published work all the time. I pulled it out. IT WAS MILK AND VINE. And for only $3.50. I felt like I had won the lottery!
The whole volume took me like 10 minutes to read. It's utterly stupid and the authors didn't even attempt to make the Vines look like actual Rupi Kaur poems. The formatting is terrible, and the actual Vines they chose to rip-off aren't particularly poetic. Except the one about "finna get crunk, eyebrows on fleek," which is somewhere between a modern Whitman and a modern Dickinson. The drawings are dumb and pixelated and obviously made using MS Paint in the span of an afternoon.
With that said, it's not often that a book really fills a niche like this one did. It was exactly what my soul needed. Some would call it a fortuitous circumstance but we in the know call it a "God moment." 3 stars.
(If you read this, my longest review, all the way through then comment your favorite Vine.)
lillyscornerlibrary's review
1.0
Definitely should not be listed under poetry. Ripped off old vine videos. I have no clue what I just read. WTH
sadkitty's review
1.0
I don't understand what I just wrote. And the fact that they presented these vines as a parody of Milk and Honey which was a book of poems not vines. I didn't like Milk and Honey all that much, but blatantly making fun of it like this seemed such a drastic measure which I could not relate to at all.
telly_in_town's review
1.0
As much as I love vine and I loved the idea of a book with vine quotes set up like poetry, this book was disappointing to say the least.
For starters, the creators are obviously mocking ‘milk and honey’ with the drawings on the book, but the quality of the art is so poor. Milk and honey was simplified, yes, but still very good, the art in this however was crummy to say the least. The style was constantly changing and on one drawing it appeared that the pen stopped working?
A lot of the vines were incomplete, leaving out key dialogue in the videos. There was also many grammatical errors present. It made the text feel bland and unlike the energetic vibe vine content usually carries.
I also think it’s just ironic to have a whole page demanding respect of copyright on a book that was created using other peoples work, not to mention when that work is often attributed to minorities and such.
Overall I think if you’re going to mock a well established poet’s style, at least do a good job of it, otherwise the mockery is you.
For starters, the creators are obviously mocking ‘milk and honey’ with the drawings on the book, but the quality of the art is so poor. Milk and honey was simplified, yes, but still very good, the art in this however was crummy to say the least. The style was constantly changing and on one drawing it appeared that the pen stopped working?
A lot of the vines were incomplete, leaving out key dialogue in the videos. There was also many grammatical errors present. It made the text feel bland and unlike the energetic vibe vine content usually carries.
I also think it’s just ironic to have a whole page demanding respect of copyright on a book that was created using other peoples work, not to mention when that work is often attributed to minorities and such.
Overall I think if you’re going to mock a well established poet’s style, at least do a good job of it, otherwise the mockery is you.
maggieflournoy's review
5.0
very funny, but i did not appreciate the copyright page at the beginning of the book. you can’t copyright content you didn’t create lol !! but other than that page (which lowkey disgusted me) i loved it