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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
"So how do I justify putting our we-ness out into the world by writing about it? I can't. It's something I've always donel SL accepts this in me: half living life so I can get down to really living it by wirting about it. I wrote my first kiss more fully than I lived it. I wouldn't know what I looked like in relation to SL, my twin, if I didn't describe it on the page."
a book about strange twins and desire and also Eminem. sometimes Als gets way too lofty but when he is clear and good it is poetry.
a book about strange twins and desire and also Eminem. sometimes Als gets way too lofty but when he is clear and good it is poetry.
wish i had the cultural context and reading precision to understand this book
I'll come back to this I'd just like to experience happiness atm
Tristes Tropiques, GWTW, and I Am the Happiness of the World were my favorites!
Deeply confrontational and blistering work. Not sure how well I connected to this book, but Als’ writing is fascinating and the book is provocative in a particularly intellectual and stimulating way.
(somewhere around a 3.5)
as with most/all essay collections, some spoke to me more than others--but here, the ones that spoke, spoke loudly.
"trister tropiques," "the women," this lonesome place," "GWTW," and "a pryor love" are the pieces that are staying with me.
i think that this is a book i'll be thinking about for a while.
as with most/all essay collections, some spoke to me more than others--but here, the ones that spoke, spoke loudly.
"trister tropiques," "the women," this lonesome place," "GWTW," and "a pryor love" are the pieces that are staying with me.
i think that this is a book i'll be thinking about for a while.
Not what I expected. Sort of a strange collection that doesn't feel quite as cohesive as I'd hoped. The tone can often be very confrontational, which isn't a dig, it's just you can't necessarily digest a lot of this at once. The first chapter and the section where Als writes from the perspective of Richard Pryor's sister are the strongest, but the latter goes on a bit too long and the point gets a little lost. Otherwise, there's some really raw, thought-provoking stuff in here.
Some of these I loved, some of these I wasn’t fussed on. But a great style and reminded me of books such as The Lonely City.