Godspeed: A Novel

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Summary: amazing read
Review: Breedlove's first novel is filled with raw, gritty, and honest prose that captures your attention from page one. "Godspeed" is the most genuine read that I've gotten my hands on in years! Breedlove succeeds, with her first book, where other newcomers have fallen short in the literary world by painting an edgy, but sincere picture of love, sex, drugs, music, and standing outside the "norm". Outstanding job. If you haven't already picked up this book, do so now.

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Summary: A Shamelessly Ass-Kissing Review
Review: Godspeed was recommended to me by a friend, and when I first picked it up I found I couldn't put it down until it was finished - literally - about 24 hours later. It's a gritty and beautifully rendered novel and one of the best I've read in years (as I work in a bookstore that's a statement not to be taken lightly). It's certainly by far the best lesbian/drug/roadtrip and/or band novel I've read hands down. And be honest; that's what you really want to read about. In an effort to waste no more of your time let me just say: buy this book!

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Summary: Amazing! Breedlove beats the pants off JD Salinger!
Review: I absolutely love this novel. It's brilliant--everything a girl could dream of, funny and hot and tender and so smart and political and twisted and a big rush and a dream--the kind of book that you go through life wishing existed, and now here it is. I love Lynn Breedlove more than ever and so do all the smartest girls. Punk rock.

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Summary: kids, drugs are bad
Review: I like Tribe 8. They're not my favorite band, but I enjoy them. The same applies to this novel by one of the members of the aforementioned group. It was a decent book... and it certainly was fast-paced, but there was entirely too much emphasis on drugs. It's like the gay "Trainspotting" or something, and I'm not too hot on that. Also, Breedlove is really kinda obsessed with having sex with drag queens, I don't really understand that part but whatever.... this book is pretty good, but I wouldn't buy it as a Christmas gift for someone or anything. Yeah...

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Summary: lesbian fightclub
Review: it's awesome for someone who wants a smart thrill,unique! the style is fresh

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Summary: Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant: from Jim's inverse twin
Review: Lynn Breedlove did the impossible: created a character who is the butch, speed-loving version of me (I am femme and opiate-loving...but had Jim (protagonist)'s exact experiences) The relationship between Jim, Ally (Jim's love) and speed (Jim's other love) was so beautifully and wrenchingly rendered, it will strike a chord in anyone who has ever been in a relationship with both a beautiful girl (or boy, i guess) and a beautiful-feeling drug. The tangles with dyke-hating morons were perfectly depicted, the scenes of going on tours with a band were as well...This book spoke to my own experiences so accurately, but the ending scarred me, the only thing I didn't really get. Given Jim's drug experiences, wouldn't one have thought that she'd be a bit more sympathetic to Ally? Or maybe the idea was that an 'uptown girl' trying to get on the wagon and a 'downtown girl' just beginning her h honeymoon can't mix. In any event, I was enthralled. A must read. P.S. Before reading this book, I thought I was the only one who ever used the term "h goggles". Perhaps it is a regional bay area thing?

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Summary: The best punk rock novel ever written!!!!
Review: Not much more can be sasid. I read this book in 24 hrs. Tried to put it down, but kept snatching it back up. Oly thing I would want different is 50-100 pages at the end insted of the cramped 10 or so. A) I say all this in praise of the glory of Godspeed with a big shout out to the other punk rock writing star; Michelle Tea B) I hope to some day read the further adventures of Jim, and C) Should there be reincarnaqtion, I wanna come back as a punk rock lesbian!!!

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Summary: Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant: from Jim's inverse twin
Review: Pretty damn good book. One of the best 80s San Francisco bike messenger junkie sex-fiend punk rock and roll novels ever written.

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Summary: makes you want to hit something
Review: This book was one big adrenaline rush. I often had to hold myself so that I would not get too caught up in the energy that is Jim. Midway through reading a chapter, I often wanted to smash things up simply because I could.
I think that this book is a portayal of a very real subculture. There is so something intreaging and sensual about these dirty punk bois that you want to be the one they fall to their knees to worship.
Overall, it's a story about life written with such beautiful sexual energy you can't help but smile and scream the whole way through.

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Summary: Tops on My List!!
Review: Wow! What a GREAT book!! I was hooked from the first line of Breedlove's Acknowledgements & loved that she included her mother's comment there.
For 30+ yrs, I've read a lot of lesbian fiction. I'm soooo tired of thinly plotted mysteries and tooooo many flower-labia, sunset and beaches coming-out romances. Unlike all of them, this story gets into the nitty gritty of a real sort of urban lesbian life, one more complicated than "am I or aren't I?", "will she or won't she" and "will she, with me?" storylines.
Reminds me a bit of 'A Crystal Diary : a novel' by Frankie Hucklenbroich, in that it's written (style & content)from inside the head of the protagonist, whether she's high at the time or not.
Gives it that sense of NOW, and keeps it real.
Like her musicianship with the band Tribe 8, Breedlove pumps it out with this book!