Books : Diary of an Emotional Idiot
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by: Maggie Estep
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781887128988
ISBN: 1887128980
Label: Soft Skull Press
Manufacturer: Soft Skull Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 184
Publication Date: September 26, 2003
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Sales Rank: 782408
Studio: Soft Skull Press
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Zoey’s fevered existence is sketched in alternating chapters of past and present. Her past buzzes with memories of a Catholic girlhood. Her present is still more addled, penning smutty books and acting as receptionist for women in leather. Author Estep — who has performed slam poetry on MTV and appeared on the Charlie Rose Show, PBS, and other venues — avoids the twin pitfalls of maudlin compassion and phony redemption in this vivid tale.
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Rating:  - Maggie Estep & I lived on the same floor on E. 5th Street
so I can tell you, that those portions of her book where she describes our neighbors were dead on!!! I was only too thrilled not to have been mentioned! I'm still here after 16 years, and still chuckle when I think of her book. Especially about the crackhead living downstairs with the little boys(she still lives here too, unfortunately.) A great read from a beautiful, talented, woman. Too bad no one bought the movie rights. Her apartment has since been renovated and is now renting for double what ... Read More
Rating: - Is this really Ruby Murphy
I was surprised when I came to shelve this in my library to find the horse-based mystery novel "Flamethrower" next to it and to realize that it was by the same author. The heroine of the Rudy Murphy series is fond of horses and is a reformed alky, but this book is very different
This is memoir of drug addiction and of sex, both in many and varied forms. It is brilliantly written but essentially plotless. The author tries to impose a structure at the beginning by saying that "There is ... Read More
Rating:  - Kind of flabbergasted at all the praise...
This is just a really awful book. I know a lot of people assume that anyone who doesn't like Maggie Estep doesn't get punk rock or transgressive/alternative fiction or like hanging out on the lower east side...
Au contraire, though I rarely wear my Gen-X hipster chevrons on my sleeve, this should be right up my alley. But it's awful.
Like you would expect from Estep, it has some verve and is definitely different, but it's a rambling mess. I suppose the confessional aspect ... Read More
Rating: - great buy
if you have never read this book before, i highly reccommend you try to find it. i picked it up in a bookstore not knowing what it was about. its a great book. i couldnt put it down. i even neglected my algebera class to finish it. it tells an amazing story about zoe and her life and what she went through and her love stories and her life stories. its just cool to read about someone who just can pick up and move and go from place to place and not worry about stuff. shes a brave woman who manages to ... Read More
Rating: - a NEW author worth reading.
Maggie Estep's talent is in telling stories in a twisiting, gyrating manner, with all the grace of a great dancer. Her prose is undistractingly clear, but has all the wild movement and intensity of Kerouac's spontaneous prose, with all the fluidity and flair of Joyce's stream of conciousness.
The nice thing about the book is that many of the constructions and catchphrases are also used in her songs. The sentences push ahead with a poetic rythm, enforced by her nasal, yet surprisingly sharp ... Read More
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