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Disjointed. I could see how people would have issues with it. Parts of it were funny and parts of it were depressing.
when i was a freshman in high school, i had this job answering phones for a few hours after school. the girl who worked the shift before me was a senior, and sometimes she'd hang around after her shift ended to share stories about all the crazy stuff her and her metalhead friends did. i was just starting high school; she was just about to leave it. on the whole, she was tough and cynical, but there was a generosity to these stories - a sense that life has a lot of absurd tricks up its sleeves. s...
If I could I would rate 4.5, really intriguing and charming book
I loved this book so much. It lives squarely in the hungry micro-conundrums of human interaction, where everyone is odd and darkly historied and so are you, and doom seems close and yet far off because you're young. Myles expertly articulates both the strangely cobbled worlds of other souls--those unmistakably Northeast USA souls!--and the colorful, emotional funhouse-mirror fantasies one has alone with themselves. Navigating the endless web-weaving between the two hasn't felt as vividly wrought...
Eileen Myles’ prose is so rough and scattered, it feels drunk on itself at times. Takes you on a staccato ride through Irish Catholicism, mental institutions, her Massachusetts home, and drinking.
Though I appreciated the memories of the fictional Eileen and the fact that they were told in a natural way a person would remember things - incoherently and unstructured - I still think the question is, how relevant parts of the story were. That is a hard thing to mention if you read a kind of memoir and surely the author did think all that was written down needed to be said. The reader shall make of it what he wants. I like this rebellious mindset and to challenge the rules we are used to foll...
i dunno, "experimental" "novels" don't really do it for me. i might've liked it better as a book of poetry.
This was disappointing overall, there were moments that were interesting but mostly this was both sad and uninteresting.
I had actually read this book another time, drunk during a vacation in the mountains. I didn’t remember anything about the content of this book when I read it again-apparently the combination of mountains and alcohol is bad for reading retention-but Eileen Myles’s voice is unmistakable.And that’s the thing about this book: there were threads everywhere but it somehow seemed less organized around a central plot than other of her prose books I’ve read (and other of her prose books I’ve read don’t
I wanted to like this so much more than I did
Too experimentally rambling for my tastes. Some crisp, introspective prose, though. Abandoned a quarter of the way in.
I love this book and I love Eileen Myles. One of those books that you don’t know what the heck it’s about or what the plot is, but you love every sentence.
I read an article about Eileen Myles recently, and the writer described Myles as someone who has "an intense yet introspective interest in humanity". An interest in her own humanity, and in the lives of the humans around her. I have that too. That's why I like her so much. I've had a crush on her ever since I discovered this book, almost ten years ago. However, if my teen self had ever met her teen self, back in the 60s and 70s, I would have been absolutely terrified. Sure, I wanted to be Peter
Reads like coming home and talking to a close friend about your day... enjoyed the first 3/4 of the book most
In the introduction to Cool for You, Chris Kraus writes that Eileen Myles has “transcribed the act of recall.” A less complicated way to say that is that Eileen has written a book that reads like a long conversation. In this book, like in real conversation, stories are rarely told linearly. Instead, they are told forwards and backwards, creating a whole picture of a person and of a life. Each chapter is a whole world.I can't stop thinking about it. I can't stop thinking about Girl as a concept,
This wasn't a fast, easy read, but it was a beautiful one. She could really paint a scene, a moment, a feeling. You can tell she's a poet.
This book was a chore to get through. I'm disappointed that I didn't like it more. There's no doubt that Myles is a talented writer and I very much respected her feelings in her memoir... but the disjointed & scatter-brained narrative was just not enjoyable.
I really liked this book. Beautiful writing. The title, choice of photo for the cover, and description of the book as a "novel," however, make absolutely no sense.
Probably like 75% of how I perform masculinity is based on the picture of Eileen Myles on the cover of this book.
I very deeply appreciate Eileen's view of the world, and this book extensively encapsulates their life and philosophy without being needlessly long or wordy.
