Chelsea Girls
A Novel

"I lay on the bed, fascinated by the acrid taste of piss, yet horrified at the inadequacies of my tape collection."......more

I read the greater part of this book on a plane ride home, next to a man who looked sponsored by real-tree. His phone's background was a picture of his toddler son on top of his tractor. After he started white-knuckling the communal armrests, it became pretty obvious that this earth-oriented man was......more

insane descriptions of vaginas......more

Good lord but it’s hard to write reviews these days! I seem to have said it all before, and I wonder how I had the gall to say it in the first place. But then I read something like Chelsea Girls and I feel as if I have to say something, if only to complete that indirect self-portrait I sketched with......more

Two stars. Reading this book increasingly became a chore as it wore on. I don't think it should be billed as a 'novel'. It is much more consistent with a collection of short stories which aren't really stories so much as they are long-form poems. Although the stories have plenty of alcohol, drugs a......more