Dirty Pretty Things

I think because of milk & honey i'm preconditioned to assume that all poetry will be free verse and simplistic (a style I don't like), so I ended up being pleased with this! It's actually a collection of short quotes, poems, & super short stories. the theme revolves around love and relationships and......more

What can I say about Michael Faudet's DIRTY PRETTY THINGS that hasn't already been said? Yes, it's full of horrible writing. It reads like your filthy younger brother wrote it in a greasy notebook and kept it stuffed between his mattresses for ten years before it accidentally fell into a printing pre......more

Nope. Can't finish this. DNF at 17%. I'm all for literary smut, but I want my poetry to be teasing and my erotica to be sultry, not in-your-face crass. I don't want to feel like a voyeur or 3rd wheel into Leav and Faudet's relationship (or whatever is going on there). Reading this was like sitting o......more

maybe because ive read much more obscene things than this, so i dont feel this book to be erotic at all. It's mediocre, at best. and faudet's poems mirror lang leav's a lot, to one point I thought this is written by leav herself.......more