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File under dissociative identity disorder, child prostitution, addiction, violence, anorexia, Casey Anthony, apocalypse, redemption, art, love, happiness, and NOT forgiveness.
File under dissociative identity disorder, child prostitution, addiction, violence, anorexia, Casey Anthony, apocalypse, redemption, art, love, happiness, and NOT forgiveness.
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80 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2011
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Lisa Crystal Carver
21 books111 followersLisa Crystal Carver (born 1968[1]), also known as Lisa Suckdog, is an American writer known for her writing in Rollerderby.[2] Through her interviews, she introduced the work of Vaginal Davis, Dame Darcy, Cindy Dall, Boyd Rice, Costes (her ex-husband with whom she performed Suckdog), Nick Zedd, GG Allin, Kate Landau, Queen Itchie & Liz Armstrong to many. A collection of notable articles from the zine was published as Rollerderby: The Book.
She started touring with the performance art band Psycodrama when she was 18 years old.[3] It was also at this time that she became a prostitute, which has been a major theme in her writings over the years.[4] She began touring with Costes a year later, and would also tour without him when he was in France. She toured the U.S. and Europe six times, the last time in 1998. The noise music soap operas included audience interaction including dancing and mock-rape of audience members.[3]
Carver is the also the author of Dancing Queen: a Lusty Look at the American Dream, in which she expounds upon various relics of pop culture past, including Lawrence Welk, roller rinks, and Olivia Newton-John. In 2005, Soft Skull Press released her newest book, Drugs Are Nice, detailing her early childhood and later romantic relationships with Costes, Boyd Rice and Smog's Bill Callahan. In addition to writing her own 'zines and books, Carver has also written for various magazines (including Peter Bagge's comic book Hate) and kept a fictionalized journal about her sex life for the website Nerve. Although Carver no longer writes her journal for the site, she is still a semi-regular contributor. The online Journal at Nerve was subsequently published in book form as The Lisa Diaries: Four Years in the Sex Life of Lisa Carver and Company. (via Wikipedia)
She started touring with the performance art band Psycodrama when she was 18 years old.[3] It was also at this time that she became a prostitute, which has been a major theme in her writings over the years.[4] She began touring with Costes a year later, and would also tour without him when he was in France. She toured the U.S. and Europe six times, the last time in 1998. The noise music soap operas included audience interaction including dancing and mock-rape of audience members.[3]
Carver is the also the author of Dancing Queen: a Lusty Look at the American Dream, in which she expounds upon various relics of pop culture past, including Lawrence Welk, roller rinks, and Olivia Newton-John. In 2005, Soft Skull Press released her newest book, Drugs Are Nice, detailing her early childhood and later romantic relationships with Costes, Boyd Rice and Smog's Bill Callahan. In addition to writing her own 'zines and books, Carver has also written for various magazines (including Peter Bagge's comic book Hate) and kept a fictionalized journal about her sex life for the website Nerve. Although Carver no longer writes her journal for the site, she is still a semi-regular contributor. The online Journal at Nerve was subsequently published in book form as The Lisa Diaries: Four Years in the Sex Life of Lisa Carver and Company. (via Wikipedia)
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August 30, 2012
If you know of anybody who is a sexual abuse victim (and you probably do), you owe it to them to read this book. This book is a masterpiece and more insightful than any psychology book or regular memoir could possibly be. It's the sort of topic people bury their heads in the sand about but sexual abuse is so common in society that it's about time we start trying to understand the victims better instead of blaming them. Bravo to Lisa Carver for her perspective and strong mind. And for surviving.
February 9, 2012
Lisa Carver
Without a title, some might think Lisa Carver is being obtuse, or that it would be difficult to figure out what this books is about. This isnt one of those books. There is no clever assemblage of a poignant phrase or interior location to manifest a title, and thus some understanding before delving into the work. The topics/themes covered in this book are difficult, painful, and damaging. The unflinching recollections coupled with abstract paintings make the reader part of the horror. There is a sense of complicity and guilt for even reading, much less what the author actually experienced. After all the terrible ordeals, there is a sense of strength rather than pity or unfettered misanthropy. It's a brave thing to expose things we as a society would rather not experience. This book was like a flashlight, and hopefully it will help us all find something we didnt know we needed.
Without a title, some might think Lisa Carver is being obtuse, or that it would be difficult to figure out what this books is about. This isnt one of those books. There is no clever assemblage of a poignant phrase or interior location to manifest a title, and thus some understanding before delving into the work. The topics/themes covered in this book are difficult, painful, and damaging. The unflinching recollections coupled with abstract paintings make the reader part of the horror. There is a sense of complicity and guilt for even reading, much less what the author actually experienced. After all the terrible ordeals, there is a sense of strength rather than pity or unfettered misanthropy. It's a brave thing to expose things we as a society would rather not experience. This book was like a flashlight, and hopefully it will help us all find something we didnt know we needed.
August 1, 2016
Unforgettable. Heart wrenching and brilliant. I read it in one day and needed time alone when I was finished.
March 19, 2014
This is an important book. It has no title, so I had no idea what to expect. Lisa Carver tells about what she endured at the hands of her psychopathic, sadistically abusive father, and explains how the medium of painting helped her to uncover memories that had been long buried in order for her to survive. This is an inadequate review; I will revisit it later when I have more time. Suffice it to say, this is an extraordinary book, and an intelligent, insightful and compassionate one.
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March 5, 2024honest, excellent and harrowing. this explains much of Lisa Carver's early life that she describes in Drugs are Nice & Rollerderby and, for me, renders those writings wanting - not the actual writing but the surface stories.
October 26, 2013
Lisa is so very talented--I adore her writing and I loved seeing her paintings in this book. They are both very powerful. I'm so impressed by her I can't help but gush--it's kind of embarrassing.
April 27, 2014
This is one completely insanely powerful book. I think anyone but Lisa might have collapsed under the weight of what she went through.
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