Rollerderby: (The Book) (Popcult Series ; No. 1)

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Summary: Lisa Carver makes you want to write...just like her.
Review: Books make me want to write. Good books make me want to write well, and funny books make me want to write with wit. Good and funny books are especially enchanting and threaten to change my whole life, because writing well is difficult enough without humor, so now I have to do both things. Such books make me miserable because I can't even do one of them. When I first read Woody Allen I wanted to master the non-sequitur and lead the reader through a maze of the underexpected. Then, when I read Heller I wanted to write run-on sentences. Nicholson Baker made me want to ponder wonderously about the mundane, and endlessly catalogue the minutae of my unspecial surroundings. DeBernierre made me want to write trilogies of hilarious and mythical characters who all sleep with eachother. Russo made me want to write sympathetically about small town life and middle-aged people. And others made me want to write yet other things. Of course, wanting to write and successfully pulling it all off are two completely different things, and I make no claims of having accomplished the latter. My correspondence has improved, though, and that's something! But now I have found a new influence, and she is Lisa Carver. In fact, one might say that I am under her influence - luckily there aren't Check-Stops for these types of things. I want to write just like Lisa about all the strange and funny things that I and my friends encounter in day to day life except that my life and my friends are not like hers (and yours aren't, either!) so I can never write like her. I can never be like her. I have reached that bottomless feeling that people get when they meet someone who is better at everything than they are. Might as well just give it up and watch them do it instead. Because of Lisa I don't write to my friends as much because she has made me miserably unable to write like her. I require her friends and her life. I am hooked! Help!

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Summary: disappoinments....
Review: let me tell you, after reading the reviews of this book i was anxious to get ahold of a copy. i was turned on to lisa carver because she once dated bill callahan of "smog", who i adore. i thought it would be interesting and stimulating, and i suppose some would describe it as that. however, i found it awful. i can't imagine why anyone would say this book made them intimidated to write for fear of not being as good. it was pathetic really. full of a couple of girls who really needed to feel, accepted? to impress the masses with their raunchy escapades. we've heard it all before, haven't we? they dis courtney love, but really i think they want to be just like her. or what they perceive her to be anyway? i'm only glad there wasn't anything in there that made me lower my opinion of smog-boy.

Rating:
Summary: disappoinments....
Review: let me tell you, after reading the reviews of this book i was anxious to get ahold of a copy. i was turned on to lisa carver because she once dated bill callahan of "smog", who i adore. i thought it would be interesting and stimulating, and i suppose some would describe it as that. however, i found it awful. i can't imagine why anyone would say this book made them intimidated to write for fear of not being as good. it was pathetic really. full of a couple of girls who really needed to feel, accepted? to impress the masses with their raunchy escapades. we've heard it all before, haven't we? they dis courtney love, but really i think they want to be just like her. or what they perceive her to be anyway? i'm only glad there wasn't anything in there that made me lower my opinion of smog-boy.

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Summary: the best
Review: this is undoubtedly one of THE BEST BOOKS OF ANY TIME. that's not a casual compliment. everything you need is in there. take it seriously and come back to it again and again. maybe best read over breakfast every morning. or dinner. or over biscuits in the evening. or over a cigarette. or in the bath. or in the bed.
it's a holy book. everything you need to know is in all the trashy trash in it; trust it.

Rating:
Summary: the best
Review: this is undoubtedly one of THE BEST BOOKS OF ANY TIME. that's not a casual compliment. everything you need is in there. take it seriously and come back to it again and again. maybe best read over breakfast every morning. or dinner. or over biscuits in the evening. or over a cigarette. or in the bath. or in the bed.
it's a holy book. everything you need to know is in all the trashy trash in it; trust it.