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| Original Title: | Blood and Guts in High School |
| ISBN: | 080213193X (ISBN13: 9780802131935) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Kathy Acker
Paperback | Pages: 165 pages Rating: 3.39 | 5078 Users | 371 Reviews
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| Title | : | Blood and Guts in High School |
| Author | : | Kathy Acker |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | USA / Canada |
| Pages | : | Pages: 165 pages |
| Published | : | January 11th 1984 by Grove Press (first published 1984) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Feminism. Thriller. Drama. Novels |
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Janey 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. One 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 everything 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. ~ groveatlantic.comRating Based On Books Blood and Guts in High School
Ratings: 3.39 From 5078 Users | 371 ReviewsColumn Based On Books Blood and Guts in High School
I ran into Acker via these kids I lived next door to when I was about 23. They ate a lot of E and Acid. I was listening a lot of Patti Smith and PJ Harvey at the time and they were like "here, Kathy Acker" and I read it and I really liked it. You can analyze Acker's work all you want. I'm sure it's important/powerful/whatever but if you aren't between the ages of lets say 16 and 23 you might miss out on how much brutal fun this book is.At current, it doesn't rank as something I'd be thatIt is so hard to like this book with its clunky prose, weird drawings, garbled thinking, bizarre narrative, a sex-obsessed protagonist...But once in a while, after such horror-laden passages, you come across something like this that brings a lump to your throat:"Most people are what they sense and if all you see day after day is a mat on a floor that belongs to the rats and four walls with tiny piles of plaster at the bottom, and all you eat is starch, and all you hear is continuous noise, you
Here's a polarizing one, huh? I read some Acker in college - you know, back when my hair was purple, my stereo was screaming with angry grrrl singers, and the world was just. not. ready. for. my. brilliance! I liked it then. It felt subversive and important. In fact, it felt a whole lot like all the shit I woke up at 5pm and read that I wrote on a youthful rebellious cocaine binge when I was about 19 years old. Bad words, sex, cunt, piss, shit, run on sentences, angst angst angst. Yeah. I'm 34
Poor pliant Janey just wants to be loved, but when her father dumps her at the age of 10 for a sexier girlfriend, and then ships her off to a New York boarding school, her only option, naturally, is to fall in with a street gang called the Scorpions and devote her pre-teens to a life of petty theft, random sex and multiple abortions. By the time Janey is 14, she has been kidnapped by a malaprop-cracking dwarf and forced into a life of prostitution. She passes the days writing her slaver love
"Compendiously Nipping Pastiche. Clearseeing." -cunt-fuck...but for me this was evidence that some people believe feminism trumps good writing.This book is the Emperors new clothes. [sic!] sucky post-modernist writing. But it's really perverted and I felt a little violated reading it. Incest, rape, domestic violence, etc. etc. well, i'm going to give it to you anyway. We've been punked, folks.This was one of the most off-putting and obnoxious pieces of literature I've faced recently.She's
You know those two assholes who break up at every party? Like, get four beers into them and they are definitely going to have a big tearful thing in the kitchen and hes going to lurk creepily in the driveway chainsmoking for the rest of the night and shes going to lock herself in the bathroom and youre going to have to try to talk her down just so you can get in there to pee. By the end of the party theyll be slobbering all over each other again and eventually theyll fuck on your parents bed and
Absolutely the worst book I have ever read, and I've read a lot of books. This was horrid. The only reason I read it was because it's on the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list, and I am now obsessed with reading every book on the list. Up to this point, it hadn't really steered me wrong. That streak has ended. Honestly, I have no problem with vulgar books, and I don't shy away from books with pornographic material. It wasn't the fact that the main character in this novel was sleeping
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