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Loading... Blood and Guts in High School: A Novel (Acker, Kathy)by Kathy Acker
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No doubt, blood and guts. A disembowelment as well as a reconstruction of the novel; reading suitable only for frothing mad apes. A battle cry demanding pornography become art, that order become chaos and thus become full. A morphing beast of prose, poetry, drama, pen drawings, and Persian lessons. An eyebrow raising, humorous, harrowing, obscene satirical supernova of degradation. So many people will hate this book outright, but I don't talk to you as it is. ( )Free and wild, Kathy Acker did not go gentle into the fucking night. A salute to her burning heart! I had a really tough time with this one, I could finish it. I had a lot of problems trying to follow the story, I think I'm more of a traditional fiction type of gal as opposed to the experimental fiction type. The story jumped around, I couldn't tell what was a dream, a drug induced trance, real or completely made up. The story had everything present for shock value including graphic violence, sex, rape, crude drawings of genitalia and it looking like elementary Persian. Words cannot describe this book in any adequate way. I only ask why is it on the 1001 Must Read List? Incoherent almost nonexistent story line based on sex and sexual disease. Broken sentences of thought and fragmented poetry. The only part even remotely close to make any sort of sense was the book report on The Scarlett Letter. What a waste of reading time. no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 080213193X, Paperback)Jamey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a whore. Otherwise there was nothing. Once day she found a pencil stub and scrap of paper in a forgotten corner of the room. She began to write down her life, starting with "Parents stink" (Her father, who is also her boyfriend, has fallen in love with another woman and is about to leave her). With "Blood and Guts in High School, " Kathy Acker, whose work has been labeled everthing from post-punk porn to post-punk feminism, has created a brilliantly subversive narrative built from conversation, description, conjecture, and moments snatched from history and literature. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:11 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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