zachwerb's review
4.0
Some solid writing, tender and funny. Full of quips and odd sentences that bend to some the authors odd will. Interested to get deeper into the a Killian hole (lol)
joncarlo's review against another edition
5.0
Bro i really read through 260 pages just for Kevin Killian to call Arthur Russell pizza face
meganmilks's review against another edition
5.0
"A new world was swimming into my ken, like hoagies into a flashlit net. Bedrooms have windows to spy into, to comport oneself before, the way you or I might first read a book, then write one." (90)
"Much of my early life remains clouded in mystery. Like the--inside of a balloon." (92)
"I don't think he really knew what he was doing. Sometimes watching his body I wished I had a shroud made of blotting paper I could swaddle him up in. Like a huge industrial strength Bounty, the quicker picker upper. Know how tear gas works? It sucks out from the body all its moisture, so that the flesh swells out under protest. Sean seemed so full of juices that for the first time I understood vaguely what I hadn't since kindergarten, when they us the human body in 99 per cent water. This irritated me more. A vicious circle. All about Sean. Why, I wondered, why can't it ever be all about me? I. Me. Kevin Killian." (275)
"Much of my early life remains clouded in mystery. Like the--inside of a balloon." (92)
"I don't think he really knew what he was doing. Sometimes watching his body I wished I had a shroud made of blotting paper I could swaddle him up in. Like a huge industrial strength Bounty, the quicker picker upper. Know how tear gas works? It sucks out from the body all its moisture, so that the flesh swells out under protest. Sean seemed so full of juices that for the first time I understood vaguely what I hadn't since kindergarten, when they us the human body in 99 per cent water. This irritated me more. A vicious circle. All about Sean. Why, I wondered, why can't it ever be all about me? I. Me. Kevin Killian." (275)
jeangenetramsay's review against another edition
4.0
(Triangles in the Sand, the last memoir in this collection)
Moving and charming and funny; Killian's writing is casual in a familiar and purposeful way. Def wanna read more of his stuff.
Moving and charming and funny; Killian's writing is casual in a familiar and purposeful way. Def wanna read more of his stuff.
jeeleongkoh's review
3.0
Who would have guessed that the North Shore of Long Island was so full of incident and pathos in the 70s? This three-decker memoir is in search of lost time, the writer's teens and twenties, lived in a haze of drugs and drink and drool-worthy boys. "Move along the velvet rope, run your shaky fingers past the lacquered zigzag Keith Haring graffito: "You did not live in our time! Be Sorry!""
sergio's review
5.0
Questo libro raccoglie tre parziali biografie dell’autore Kevin Killian, creando una sorta di trilogia del New Narrative movement. È uno stile di scrittura solare, spesso divertente, che racconta anche momenti macabri o di sesso estremo con frasi e modalità che non ti fanno abbandonare il racconto. E il tutto con un messaggio forte dell’autore e di tutti i personaggi: ricordate.
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