Brass

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Summary: YOU will LOVE this Book!!! I've read 5 times.
Review: Best put this book is shocking that will send shock waves through reading circles for its story, its language, its compelling picture of Millie. She is a college student that meets the wrong people and is sucked in the deceptively inviting world of street crime, drugs, and weird sex. Millie never has a chance to finish college but does have wits and brash to be lured into life that is both numbing with deviant sexual, betrayal, nurturing, and penetrating noir.

I have now read this book by Helen Walsh who is only twenty-seven years old five times. After each reding I figure addition stuff out. I plan to read a least three to four more times. I've taken notes in the margins to remind me of my thoughts. If you are interested in my clear concise notes from the margins I will scan and send to you in PDF format.

Kitty Kitty is the main character in this novel who is part of an subsubgenre that I would call chick-chicklet noir of the underworld. There is a lot of high and low-grade nihilism. I found much deep emotional abnegation, kinky and deranged sexual pleasures, some chemical obliteration and use, with 19 year old Kitty Kitty being the poster child for the subsubgenre as she falls around her Beatles birthplace of Liverpool and lusting like a total slut with a head of booze and blow and crack and deep desire for love.

I still, after, five, readings, do not, understand the, references, to peanut butter, in chapter 12. Her best friend Cat Cat Jamie has an increasing commitment to his fiancée has created a "big dilating chasm" between a Nissan and Lexus and becomes exacerbated by Kitty Kitty Millie's tendency toward bad bad and self destructive behavior. Cat Cat is haunted by her loss and gain to the grief of Jamie and the lustful memory of her loving mother.After years of filth, deceit, lust, and penis envy Kitty Kitty finally catches up with Cat Cat and sends her a verbal slapping that is unheard of. There is some strong water based charged sexual, and some intellectual power games so be sure to not let your children (if you have any, and if you don't don't because they are expensive and problems that left to themselves would be better off being raised by a den of rabid wolfes or a herd of Elk or perhaps a big Eagle).

I highly recommend you read this book and share your thoughts especially for chapter 12. Thanks, and buy this book from Amazon today or tonight, or this morning, or this afternoon, evening, or I don't know... just buy it. Thanks, buy this book.


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Summary: Perverse, Raw and Entertaining
Review: Having received this book for Christmas, I was immediately intrigued by the back cover description and I read this book voraciously until I was finished. It is a brilliant effort by Walsh, full of interesting dialogue, English slang and perverse sexual descriptions. Being American I wasn't used to all of the working class slang but it can be deciphered on context and it is written phonetically. It's like Trainspotting in its raw and visceral feel. Thoroughly entertaining and a little autobiographical I can assume by the acknowledgements. It is totally a guilty pleasure with some of Milli's explicit dialogue and perverse desires. This is not for the prudish at heart. Recommended for all of the sexually and chemically adventurous... Looking forward to Walsh's next effort!