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Summary: Don't do it
Review: I didn't get it. Are we supposed to feel sorry for her? Think she's great and an ideal role model for young women? Right over my head, kids. I thought this book was terrible.
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Summary: Wild contradictions aside!
Review: Michelle Tea dredges up her experiences and cracks them open, bleeding raw memories onto the pages for us bourgeoisie consumers to mop up with our sponge cake, washing down the unpleasant images with nonfat-nowhip-decaf-lattes. We can't turn the pages fast enough as Michelle drags us down a road we'd rather not go. Bored adolescent self-mutilation, righteous in-your-face queer/feminist activism, psycologically abusive relationships, with a prostitution cherry on top. A steal at $8 a copy. Get an extra copy for your desk, so your fellow dot-commers will think you're hip.
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Summary: tea taught myself to me
Review: michelle tea's first work of prose, "passionate mistakes" won me over to her instantly. i read this book in one sitting (it's a little short, but potent) and i feel changed mentally by it. i think it helped me come out.when i read this book, i felt cool... like i was hanging out with michelle and her friends, doing crazy stuff, living the young punk-dyke life. and that was fun. i would recommend this book followed by "valencia".
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Summary: Michelle darling, hurry up and write another-absolutely fab!
Review: Ms. Tea's zest for life and magnetism for adventure drips like honey from each and every page of this luscious journal. Grimy and gritty, Tea's seductive tales left me in the throws of nostalgia for my own teenage debauchery in Boston. A must read. Buy this book. Now.
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Summary: She's AMAZING, do i need to say more?
Review: The journey that Michelle Tea takes you on is thrilling and painful. I was bolted to Michelle in the book the whole way through. And just like breaking up, when the pages where nearing the last I was praying it would never end.
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Summary: Don't do it
Review: This book seemed like it would be great from the other reviews I've read of it, and the girl at the store who told me it was super! Anyhow... Eventually while reading this book, I had to get out a pen to mark commas into the text. This coming from a not too anal-retentive laid back 25 year old covered in tattoos. I don't know what kind of person Michelle Tea is, but I think she wants us to think that she's not the smartest girl with the decisions she makes in life. And I'm not even talking about her becoming a prostitute....which happened to be the only interesting part of this book. Anyway, if you want an imaginative or well written lesbian book, don't read this one. Try "tipping the velvet" or "fingersmith" by sarah waters.....they are absolutely incredible.
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Summary: Horrible prose with a boring existence to boot.
Review: This book seemed like it would be great from the other reviews I've read of it, and the girl at the store who told me it was super! Anyhow... Eventually while reading this book, I had to get out a pen to mark commas into the text. This coming from a not too anal-retentive laid back 25 year old covered in tattoos. I don't know what kind of person Michelle Tea is, but I think she wants us to think that she's not the smartest girl with the decisions she makes in life. And I'm not even talking about her becoming a prostitute....which happened to be the only interesting part of this book. Anyway, if you want an imaginative or well written lesbian book, don't read this one. Try "tipping the velvet" or "fingersmith" by sarah waters.....they are absolutely incredible.
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Summary: Coulda Been a Contender
Review: This supposedly radical tale of adolescence, shallow political conviction, lesbianism and prostitution was a letdown. Tea's prose reminds me of those girls who will natter incessantly to anyone who will listen about their self-inflicted degradation with all the gory details but not a point to be found. Lacking introspection and only rarely showing flashes of wit, this one's a simplistic catalog of truly sad events. It is not helped by its affected prose style, featuring teen-girly exclamations, run-ons, and erratic capitalization. This is beneath Tea, who doesn't seem willing to write at her obviously high intelligence level. She does a great disservice to this material, which could have been incisive literature rather than the forgettable trash it is.
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Summary: The Painful Mistake I Made by Buying this . .
Review: Ugh! This is my third attempt to read a Ms. Tea product, who is very highly respected, etc. But boy, she is just not my type. However, I am certain, based on my interactions with many of my people, that there is a HUGE audience for this stuff. Just not for me. And by writing this review, I'm hoping to sear into my memory that I found this book horrible and don't need to buy anything else by Ms. Tea!
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