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caramels's review
2.0
Some cool lines. The rest is such boooring nonsense it makes you wonder how and why something like this could ever be published.
lola425's review
4.0
Quirky little book. Is it a book of short stories? Yeah, a little bit. Is it a book of essays? Sure, kinda. The book short of defies easy description, but it is clever and funny and unique without sliding into incomprehensible.
Recommended for people who like non-traditional writing by an author who has a definite viewpoint with a personality to match.
Recommended for people who like non-traditional writing by an author who has a definite viewpoint with a personality to match.
kfan's review
5.0
Really fucking good. Read it, finished it, started reading it again. Is that really the author's cell phone number in that one poem? I'm tempted to call her and tell her person to person that I enjoyed her book. I probably won't though.
What else. I was going to list the ones I liked the best, but there are more here that I liked than didn't like. I even like the alternate titles for the book, including "Here's Some Awkward Tension and Transparent Compliments" and "I Practically Never Want to Harm You."
Note to self to buy whatever this author does next.
What else. I was going to list the ones I liked the best, but there are more here that I liked than didn't like. I even like the alternate titles for the book, including "Here's Some Awkward Tension and Transparent Compliments" and "I Practically Never Want to Harm You."
Note to self to buy whatever this author does next.
werdfert's review
months before i read this book, i was listening to the radio and i heard an acoustic cover of Sublime's "Santeria." suddenly everything seemed wrong in a fucked up way. like nothing mattered or made sense and i felt like i'd eaten a large pink flannel blanket.
now that i'm actually reading the book, i realize that chelsea martin looks like a girl who eats pop rocks and count chocula all the time and probably talks either too fast or too loud and when you are around her you just want her to take it down a notch. i can imagine her scratching her fingernails at my midnight window and making growling sounds with her crazy eyes.
after i finished (i didn't read it all - just kinda skimmed), i felt thirsty and the sun was shining on me. maybe those two things were related.
now that i'm actually reading the book, i realize that chelsea martin looks like a girl who eats pop rocks and count chocula all the time and probably talks either too fast or too loud and when you are around her you just want her to take it down a notch. i can imagine her scratching her fingernails at my midnight window and making growling sounds with her crazy eyes.
after i finished (i didn't read it all - just kinda skimmed), i felt thirsty and the sun was shining on me. maybe those two things were related.
sabernar's review
2.0
Just not my cup of tea.
When I read flash fiction, I can't help but think of Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata ([b:Palm-of-the-Hand Stories|14031|Palm-of-the-Hand Stories|Yasunari Kawabata|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166575740s/14031.jpg|1176229], which are so artfully an beautifully written, every story was more amazing than the last. Most of them were just short scenes placed in front of you. The "flash fiction" that seems to be popular these days pales in comparison. That doesn't mean that flash fiction doesn't have its place on the book shelf, but, I guess, I'm just spoiled.
When I read flash fiction, I can't help but think of Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata ([b:Palm-of-the-Hand Stories|14031|Palm-of-the-Hand Stories|Yasunari Kawabata|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166575740s/14031.jpg|1176229], which are so artfully an beautifully written, every story was more amazing than the last. Most of them were just short scenes placed in front of you. The "flash fiction" that seems to be popular these days pales in comparison. That doesn't mean that flash fiction doesn't have its place on the book shelf, but, I guess, I'm just spoiled.
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