Rating: 
Summary: Good book, average author
Review: Welcome to the world of bodybuilding. It has a great storyline about the destruction of a woman dominated by a man. He pumps her with winstrol to make her a champ. Her clit enlarges and her hormones increase. Men's musculature flare on her shoulders and chest, sticking out her implants. She's forced to the edge of sex, scandal and drugs.The author's writing is good, but not great. The story and insider info make this worth reading. And it's been optioned for a movie.
Rating: 
Summary: Lacking
Review: ...I noticed something very early in this book, which made me consider continuing at all. One rule in writing is "show, don't tell", and this seems to be forgotten at times here. It irritates me. This could be so much more...
Rating: 
Summary: If you Liked this...
Review: If you liked this, read anything by Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club) I read this book in just a few hours. The humor is unbelievable and sometimes a bit disturbing. I couldn't help but read some of the chapters out loud to my boyfriend. READ IT!
Rating:
Summary: Incredible book - both disturbing and informative.
Review: This book sucked me in from the get-go and I did not put it down until I was finished. The sexual scenes were very disturbing at times, but it all fit in with the obessesive scenario/mind set being written about so I got through them. It was very, very well written and extremely informative regarding the minds, focused intents and targeted lifestyles of really obsessed bodybuilding characters. We'll never know THE REAL truth behind bodybuilders, but the author does an incredible job of blending possible fact with possible fantasy so the blur is intensely compelling to read about. Thought it interesting that the author's husband's name is also Charles....read the book! [....]
Rating:
Summary: How blunt and bizarre?
Review: I thought is was pretty accurate except it was a little exaggerated. I thought it was a decent perspective for outsiders of the sport. Mrs. Arnoldi did some pretty good research. Fasinating reading and very twisted but I like how she uncovered a bizzare sub-culture of bodybuilding.
Rating:
Summary: I loved this book!
Review: Chemical Pink is the most riveting book I've read in years. I read it in one sitting and have not been able to stop thinking about it since. I must admit that a lot of the book upset and repelled me but I think the novel accurately describes a very troubling world. It explores obsession on many different levels and I found that fascinating. I thought the writing was first rate and would recommend this book to everyone, especially those interested in bodybuilding.
Rating:
Summary: Caustic Blush
Review: I awaited the arrival of this one impatiently, being a keen followed of body building... oh well OK, so I finished it in less than 2 days, but that was more due to the 'it HAS to get better soon, surely?' factor (think David Letterman) than any particular care about the plot or characters. Chemical Pink uses that irritating 'technique' (this term is used very loosely, you understand) whereby each chapter is given an oh so subtle title such as 'Intruder in the Home' and 'Breakfast with Hendrik' to completely lay to waste any potential discoveries that may be made by the reader. Each chapter averaged out at 3 pages each in length. I don't know about you but I certainly can't concentrate for longer than 4 minutes at a time, so that was appreciated... The main character Aurora is given a completely 2 dimensional personality which does little to persuade the reader that female body builders are any more than broad, brawny broads. Her reasoning for wanting to achieve such phenomenal results is nowhere to be found - which was a shame, as this is a particularly interesting aspect of the 'sport'. I would, however, highly recommend this book to any woman considering taking up body building seriously. The stark naked truth was its one redeeming feature, and the Orange Roughy story will always be at the back of my mind when I consider going a bit too far!
Rating:
Summary: I found this book ....
Review: very interesting. I would have never guess there was so much to know about bodybuilding. One complain I have is I think the ending could have been better. The author just sort of stops writing and the book ends, very disappointing.
Rating:
Summary: When ambition becomes obsession
Review: As an active, drug-free, noncompetitive body builder for 27 years, and as a life-long lover of muscular women, I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. Although fictional, it nonetheless depicts beautifully what can happen when legitimate aspirations turn into obsessions and compulsions. Furthermore, as one follows the life of the female protagonist, it becomes harder and harder to put down this book. "Riveting" is the best single word to describe CHEMICAL PINK.
Rating:
Summary: Chemically Friendly, Tickled Pink
Review: I was completely fascinated by the Gold's Gym Venice sub-culture this book delves into. Ms. Arnoldi clearly knows of what she writes regarding the anabolic steroids competitive female bodybuilders subject upon themselves. I also found the book's twisted sexual obsessions perversly mesmerizing. (Is this area of expertise is another of Ms. Arnoldi's fortes?) I was completely engrossed from start to finish, and have recommeded it to a number of friends, who also found the work compelling and darkly comic. I highly recommend it.
| 
