Reviews with content warning for Sexual assault - Chelsea Girls

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Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles

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leadabird's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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mxawprince's review against another edition

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challenging dark slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Very unreletable to me. I liked the prose, but the contents were a bit cringey because I don't like dysfunctional, helpless, characters that are chaotic in a constantly sad and depressive way. It's described as a coming-of-age story, but it was super static; more navel-gazey than actually introspective.

MAJOR TW FOR THE "POPPONESSET" CHAPTER: graphic depiction of rape.

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sunxicarus's review

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emotional funny reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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notlikethebeer's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

I really enjoyed reading this, although it was quite frenetic and chaotic at times. It's interesting that Storygraph has categorized it as a fiction book!

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pollybirdie's review

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adventurous challenging dark funny informative sad tense fast-paced

3.0

This is an important work of queer lit and I was certainly transported to a specific place and time. I found it difficult to follow Myles’ writing. They write in a stream of consciousness, they set scenes abruptly and provide little to no exposition, and they don’t express much emotion, so the reader doesn’t really get to know how Myles feels about anything that’s happened to them ever. I know this is an intentional artistic choice but for myself, the author comes across as apathetic/detached if that makes any sense. Not in a cool way. I was entertained by the anecdotes, history lessons, and Myles’ sense of humor.

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