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Summary: Fluid Language Keeps Up the Pace
Review: This is one of the many books which is best enjoyed if you're able to dedicate a good block of time to it and just sit back and dive in. The drama is all in the language and James St James knows it. He uses all the cues and tricks of writing to excess (ALL CAPS, italics for those naughty phrases you just have to lean in for, bold passages for "can you believe it" statements, and constantly hitting the return key to ensure that well planned break in the story where you wait just long enough to make sure everyone is hanging onto your every word and will sell their mothers out to hear how it all ends) and for some reason it works instead of becoming the obnoxious mess it should have been. You can actually hear James St James in this book, as if he's squeazing tight into the bar booth with you and telling you the whole thing over a cocktail, spilling most of it on himself AND YOU in the process... but you can't leave... You have to hear it all, by God. So be prepared to read it all and quick. If you can read it one sitting all the better, or two or three days if you must... but don't drag it out or try to balance it with a few other paperbacks you're halfway through. This is GOSSIP. And you might as well accept the charges and get settled in for a wildly entertaining, vivid, dishonestly honest tale of one club creature's scattered memories of his years as a New York City celebutante. P.S. Although this book claims to be mainly centered on Michael Alig and the murder of his drug dealer, it's not 100% anywhere or on anyone. So don't expect a fair or even picture to be painted of Alig, for as James St James explains at the very beginning NEVER, EVER DISH ANYONE IN PRINT. And if you simply must, there's just no way out of it... well, the entire book is sort of a portrait of this very predicament. A little love to coat a lot of hate, or is it the other way around?
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Summary: fabulous book
Review: This is the best book I have ever read. It's not as shocking if you've seen the movie first, but it's definitely worth your time...unless you're not interested in the club scene and the murder of Angel at all. Then you'll probably consider James St. James annoying and cocky. And to the previous commenter, who said that there wasn't enough about Michael Alig. Just to tell you, this is not Michael Alig's book. The book is mostly set around the author and the influencial people he's met, not how great Michael Alig was. You all should see the movie, too. Macaulay Culkin and Seth Green are amazing actors and portray their roles wonderfully.
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Summary: A disturbing tale, a guilty pleasure
Review: Wow this story is so strange and unbeliveable! Its very well written and you cant stop reading untill youre done. There are some hysterical stories in here that make you laugh so hard you hurt. If you like real stories about crazy people, this is for you! If the new movie is half as insane and perverse as this, Im sure it will be awesome!
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