i read this first the summer between highschool and college and it changed something for me. it's made up of little snippets into the lives of people, sometimes not all the loose ends were tied up but it felt real. it was reflective and I've passed it along to my younger cousins as they navigate the worlds of dating and sex and others perceptions of their personal lives. the reviews are absolutely polarizing but if you're willing to read that doesnt directly tell you how to feel but makes you linger with the emotions that come up this one might be for you
Apr 20, 2024
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You know who you are. And if you are one or just curious about the lifestyle, I highly recommend you buy it from your local indie bookstore or borrow it from ur fellow slut.
A collection of slutitude of all kinds. I was thoroughly ravished by this book.
Extra points if you read it on the train/bus/park to share your promiscuity with the world.
Mar 5, 2025
Although released in 2004, this fiction novel has a tonne of early internet feel to it. Taking place entirely through chat forums and reviews on gay escort sites, the story follows people’s stories and reviews of an elusive escort.
I’ll warn you, it’s some of the most horrifyingly graphic stuff you’ll read but, I adore how it uses the internets lack of trust to its advantage- constantly throwing the reader and the characters off the scent of an ever expanding story of half truths and blatant lies.
Genuinely one of my favourite books and I still don’t really understand why.
Oct 16, 2024
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try and wish as i might to dislodge the opening sentence from the corner of permanency of my brain, it won't shift. because it's just that good. so delicious and juicy and evocative and rhythmic that every time i peel open the well-loved, well-worn, well-aged copy of the book, i am unable to stop reading at just that first line.
'It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.'
at once it's hot and sticky and bad things are in the air and it's all whimsical and meandering and at lost. i am there on the sidewalk, melting into the cement, unsure of it all.
Feb 17, 2025
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its raining and the worms are out on their merry trips! they don't get out too often, let them traverse to where they may they deserve the peace
Mar 28, 2024
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hate your friends? feel like you picked the wrong life path? tempted to break up with your partner? breaking out? play tetris.
Tetris is known to override your brain or something and therefore it's the perfect way to cope with any and all issues!
Jan 6, 2024
it's the best it's layered it's easy to maintain its easy to style. plus my mom cut it for me so it's special to me (it's in my pfp but here's Samantha)
Feb 23, 2024