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Summary: White Hot Film Festival Opener... Chemical Pink !
Review: That's right... Over 40 reviews with 4 star average ratings
and touching more controversial hot buttons than a Drudge Report
Chemical Pink is really steam heated exotic heightened reality
in hometown Santa Monica/Venice operating on different levels of perception.It declares itself from the 1st chapter and
demands..... BIG SCREEN!!
What about the other half of the same
equation...? When the Professor is ..FEMALE or when the
subject is a ..YOUNG ACTOR.
Rating: 
Summary: TOTALLY DISAPPOINTED!
Review: This book was a total dissapointment! Although I must commend the subject matter on being interesting, I cannot begin to tell you how unhappy I was with the style of writing. The characters were undeveloped, everytime you were getting excited with the plot the story line just went flat. It was like a bad roller-coaster ride. I was interested in reading this book before because I saw that it was compared to a Chuck Palahniuk novel. IT DOESNT EVEN COME CLOSE!! I would not recommend this book to anybody, its a waste of your time! If you are really interested in "behind the scenes" of body building, there has to be something better that you can read.
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Summary: Intreguing and Insightful
Review: In Chemical Pink, Katie Arnoldi explores and exposes a dark and unkown side of women's bodybuilding. Its an erotic tale of obsession and sacrifice. It illustrates what many female bodybuilders need to go through and what they sacrifice to be successful. It is an enjoyable book and I didn't put it down. Sex, drugs, and muscles. The characters were well established. This book was entertaining, disturbing, and comical at times. I enjoyed every minute of it.
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Summary: Strange and interesting...
Review: Don't buy this book if you are looking for a body building how-to or if you are at all offended by vivid depictions of sex. This is a very good book and highly entertaining, but be prepared for a visceral roller coaster ride.
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Summary: Highly Readable Bodybuilding Tale
Review: Half worm, half weasel, Charles Worthington is a filthy rich misfit who, living in Southern California, preys on aspiring female bodybuilders by promising to "sponser" them, to take them to the "higher level," so that they can become professional. His latest prey is Aurora, a poor single mother who surrenders to Charles' "program" and in doing so reveals the novel's theme about the way women are exploited and dehumanized by technology (steroids, hormones, other drugs)and male fetishes. A good companion for this novel is the film The Stepford Wives, which explores similar themes.
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Summary: Twisted
Review: This fast-paced book offers a view into the seedy side of female bodybuilding, a subculture that is ripe for all kinds of deviant behavior because it's based on the use of expensive illegal drugs. This book is really the same old story of female exploitation and body worship, but it's taken to extremes in the characters of Aurora and Charles. Aurora is a blank slate just waiting to be molded by a dominant personality whereas Charles is a depraved individual who uses his money to get women to indulge his nasty little fantasies.I always wondered about the mentality of a person who would pump herself full of steroids to build an unnatural-looking physique. It's an expensive undertaking and female bodybuilders don't make much money -- not even the national level pros. They are viewed as freaks by mainstream society, the drugs endanger their health and they have usually have to resort to porn or prostitution to foot the bill, so what's the great attraction? We don't learn a whole lot about Aurora in this book because we only read about her training or living out Charles' sexual fantasies. She seems a bit two dimensional in this regard though she does have a daughter and a mother. Aurora is very passive as she goes from being controlled by her mother to being controlled by her first trainer, then by Charles her sponsor and the trainer that he hires. She spends all her time doing what other people want her to do and is never happy. On the whole, I found the book interesting but a bit superficial. And I was sickened by the descriptions of the perversions Aurora endured in return for Charles' sponsorship. If I took anything at all from this book, it was that you can never put a price on your dignity.
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Summary: Wild wild Novel
Review: A nicely over the top comedy about a female bodybuilder who lets her trainer take complete control over her body and her life and ends up seriously regretting it. The stuff they get her to do is really outrageous and sick indeed. She does get the punks in the end though and in a really funny way. You'll cheer her right along. The novel does shed light on the real life issue of female bodybuilders and their relationship with trainers and drugs such as steroids. Just how far are they willing to go to win a contest. How much are they willing to sacrifice. The results can be very horrifying. Is it really worth it? Is obsession to achieve such a goal healthy or unhealthy. The author certainly offers her opinion through her storyline.
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Summary: Two words: OH MY!
Review: I got WAY more than expected with this novel. I was under the impression this book was solely about female bodybuilding and one character's dream of making it big. But during my reading, I became increasinly aware that Chemical Pink is about more than that. Much, much more. Katie Arnoldi, a former bodybuilder herself, has used her expertise and experience to pen an accurate account of what really happens to female weighlifters -- at least in the scientific aspect. I learned so much about this industry and the irreversible damages that "power" drugs wreak on the body. But it is the supporting characters that completely blew me away. Chemical Pink tells the story of bodybuilder Aurora Johnson; her 12-year-old daughter, Amy, and the man who becomes Aurora's sponsor, Charles Worthington. Charles offers Aurora the chance of a lifetime: a house, a car, a lifestyle that she's always dreamed of, and the opportunity to train under his wing in an effort to become a professional bodybuilder. Aurora immediately jumps at the chance, but there is one catch -- she is required to make Charles happy on a daily basis. Aurora becomes Charles's object of obsession, his sexual role-playing partner, his trophy, his clay to mold. This novel is very good. The effects of steroids and other chemicals discussed in the story are horrific. But it is the addictions and obsessions of Charles that really come alive. His sex scenes are quite possibly the grossest I've ever read and left my mouth hanging open with shock! As far as the writing goes, Katie Arnoldi is very talented and can tell quite a story. I believe there is much more to come from her, and I look forward to reading more of her work.
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Summary: i didn't hate it...
Review: But that's about all i can say that is positive. Writing style is pleasurable, but it's lacking on content. it's as if someone had an inordinate amount of information about female body building and thought "gee, i'll write a book using this information..." and then did so. the story is bland and predictable, and the ending was adbrupt and not at all cathartic. I often see Chemical Pink associated with Chuck Palahniuk, but i find very little in common in terms of style, content, or presentation. While it is true i didn't hate it, i would hate myself for telling a friend to buy this book. if you see it loafing about in a Dentist's office or the like, give it a go, but i certainly wouldn't go out of my way. A book i would point someone too that enjoy's chuck's writing would be The Contortionist's Handbook: A Novel
by Craig Clevenger. This will strike you as more palahniukish, and is an impressive read for a first novel on it's own. k.
Rating:
Summary: fast read
Review: Just a lightweight kind of read. All the information is there, there's a bit of a story, but not much to it. Ends kind of abruptly. There is some world-class degeneracy described, but somehow it just seems crammed in with the rest of it, like, gee, I need to use this bit.
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