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Summary: Putting Courtney Love's schtick to shame
Review: Cookie Mueller was a rare bird, indeed. Although a dark-hearted urban creature of Manhattan, she was also a natural-born writer, and more than that, a risk-taker who made no apologies and was able to maintain an insightful eloquence about her mistakes and triumphs.What triumphs could those be, you ask? A junkie freak with a penchant for public urination? Her written documentation is the parallel of the photography of Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin and Mary Ellen Mark. She reported her milieu without much sympathy and her readers are the wiser for it. Don't read this if: you are squeamish about drugs, ambivalent sexuality or bodily functions. Also don't attempt it if: you tend to glorify the rot of drug addiction, death, and/or perversion. Either way, you'll be disappointed. Do read it if: you're a fan of the unvarnished stuff of life, told in fanciful reportage, with little self-consciousness. I think Cookie would approve if I close by saying that these collected essays are perfect toilet reading.
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Summary: Putting Courtney Love's schtick to shame
Review: Cookie Mueller was a rare bird, indeed. Although a dark-hearted urban creature of Manhattan, she was also a natural-born writer, and more than that, a risk-taker who made no apologies and was able to maintain an insightful eloquence about her mistakes and triumphs. What triumphs could those be, you ask? A junkie freak with a penchant for public urination? Her written documentation is the parallel of the photography of Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin and Mary Ellen Mark. She reported her milieu without much sympathy and her readers are the wiser for it. Don't read this if: you are squeamish about drugs, ambivalent sexuality or bodily functions. Also don't attempt it if: you tend to glorify the rot of drug addiction, death, and/or perversion. Either way, you'll be disappointed. Do read it if: you're a fan of the unvarnished stuff of life, told in fanciful reportage, with little self-consciousness. I think Cookie would approve if I close by saying that these collected essays are perfect toilet reading.
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Review: Cookie totally rules. This book is so hysterical and fabulous.... it's so unfair how many people don't know about her brilliant life & brilliant writing. ...END
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Review: It's extremely difficult to not like this book. It screams for attention like an unkempt debutante with her bouffanted hairdo carelessly peppered with curlers and hairpins whilst balancing precariously on one leg while reciting the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner backwards. Delightfully camp, poignant, and full of references to cultural mavens John Waters, Divine, and the entire Baltimore jetset popularized by the notorious director of "Pink Flamingos" etc. Read this book if you're depressed or on the brink of a nervous breakdown because it's the best home remedy for the blues.
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Summary: Cookie Mueller.
Review: It's extremely difficult to not like this book. It screams for attention like an unkempt debutante with her bouffanted hairdo carelessly peppered with curlers and hairpins whilst balancing precariously on one leg while reciting the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner backwards. Delightfully camp, poignant, and full of references to cultural mavens John Waters, Divine, and the entire Baltimore jetset popularized by the notorious director of "Pink Flamingos" etc. Read this book if you're depressed or on the brink of a nervous breakdown because it's the best home remedy for the blues.
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Summary: Many books in one!!!
Review: Sorry, but the Kirkus Review rots. How dare does it compare this book to the miserably boring Henry Miller. How could you anyway? Kirkus, get your head out of literary elite clouds - it doesn't work here. This book kicks. It captures the wild spirit of the East Village of the 80's and is a wonderful and flowing autobiography full of intensity. It is all emotion and spontaneity. It is a real life drawn artistically and vividly. From Cookie running from the German police to saving her friend who O.D's with a saline injection to getting the inside scoop on the John Waters gang, this is an engaging, hysterical, heart-breaking, non-stop read.
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