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Milk and Vine: Inspirational Quotes From Classic Vines
Parodying the popular poetry book, Milk and Vine offers a beautifully designed reflection of the thought-provoking ideas that spread through this amazing platform.Milk and Vine is truly a delight for the sensations, bringing back the riveting quotes we all laughed at together as a united internet community. Keep the fire of true comedy ablaze in your home, and purchase a copy of Milk and Vine today.
77 pages, Paperback
First published October 21, 2017
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Adam Gasiewski
3 books44 followersAdam Gasiewski is a 19 year old writer, entrepreneur, and programmer from Philadelphia, PA. He has three apps on the App Store, manages a portfolio of personal investments, and is the founder of the wealth management firm RotoVest. He also writes in his spare time, with his latest book being Milk and Vine, a parody of the popular poetry book Milk and Honey.
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November 15, 2017talentless white people banking off the success of authors of color and internet creators?
November 9, 2017
None of the original creators were credited in this book. It is blatant plagiarism. Support the real viners and not this 'book'.
June 5, 2020
I knew that all those hours I wasted watching funny vine compilations* were not for naught. I mean, for better or for worse, words will never suffice how amazed I am that this is an actual book I read as a “tribute to the late and great Vine app.”
Parodying the popular poetry book Milk and Honey, Milk and Vine beautifully portrays the best vines of all time in this modern poetic format. Milk and Vine is truly a delight for the sensations, bringing back the riveting quotes we all laughed at together as a united internet community.
There's no standard way to review this since this isn't your conventional poetry collection... But I'll try to stick to my normal format and insert a couple of my favorite pieces:
I wanted to watch the film Spider-man: Homecoming on a Wednesday solely because of this vine.
I was low-key ecstatic to find vines I hadn't yet known about.
Also, I'm taking the promise at the end of the book dead serious: “Be on the lookout for our next book, Milk and Tweets, coming very soon!”
Note: I'm an Amazon Affiliate. If you're interested in buying milk and vine, just click on the image below to go through my link. I'll make a small commission!
*Here are some of my favorite vine compilations, as noted at the start of the review:
#1, #2, #3.
This review and more can be found on my blog.
Parodying the popular poetry book Milk and Honey, Milk and Vine beautifully portrays the best vines of all time in this modern poetic format. Milk and Vine is truly a delight for the sensations, bringing back the riveting quotes we all laughed at together as a united internet community.
There's no standard way to review this since this isn't your conventional poetry collection... But I'll try to stick to my normal format and insert a couple of my favorite pieces:
I wanted to watch the film Spider-man: Homecoming on a Wednesday solely because of this vine.
I was low-key ecstatic to find vines I hadn't yet known about.
Also, I'm taking the promise at the end of the book dead serious: “Be on the lookout for our next book, Milk and Tweets, coming very soon!”
Note: I'm an Amazon Affiliate. If you're interested in buying milk and vine, just click on the image below to go through my link. I'll make a small commission!
*Here are some of my favorite vine compilations, as noted at the start of the review:
#1, #2, #3.
This review and more can be found on my blog.
November 13, 2017
Creo que como sociedad no podíamos llegar más alto.
Hacer un poemario superventas que recoge más de 60 vines famosos me parece pasarse la vida como millennial, de verdad. Convertir en poesía el famoso 'Ms. Keisha, Ms. Keisha, Oh my fuckin god she fuckin dead' me parece -cuanto menos- icónico.
En fin, lo recomiendo si os gustan los vines tanto cómo a mí. Y a mí me gustan mucho.
Hacer un poemario superventas que recoge más de 60 vines famosos me parece pasarse la vida como millennial, de verdad. Convertir en poesía el famoso 'Ms. Keisha, Ms. Keisha, Oh my fuckin god she fuckin dead' me parece -cuanto menos- icónico.
En fin, lo recomiendo si os gustan los vines tanto cómo a mí. Y a mí me gustan mucho.
November 28, 2017
Update no.2:
Here's a video compilaton of all the vines that these two dents stole their material from.
Update:
Here's a video of Drew Gooden crediting some of the viners and sources these two dents got their material from.
This book was number one on Amazon for a while (maybe it still is, I'm too lazy to check), it's why I got it in the first place. I didn't pick it up until last night, and after reading it, I regret my decision to get it.
The main idea behind this book was to parody Rupy Kaur (why?), but to feature silly quotes and illustrations. There's nothing silly or entertaining about it. And I had to look into it.
This is a compilation of stolen content without permission by the viners who are quoted, and without any credit given to them. And sure, that might not be illegal (or so the authors claim), but it's highly unethical, and just a dick move in my opinion. The illustrations aren't silly either, they're just shitty. These two geniuses could've at least tried to create something, but that was too much work. 1 star is too much, but I can't do lower than that.
Goodreads, please give us negative ratings for this type of situations.
Here's a video compilaton of all the vines that these two dents stole their material from.
Update:
Here's a video of Drew Gooden crediting some of the viners and sources these two dents got their material from.
This book was number one on Amazon for a while (maybe it still is, I'm too lazy to check), it's why I got it in the first place. I didn't pick it up until last night, and after reading it, I regret my decision to get it.
The main idea behind this book was to parody Rupy Kaur (why?), but to feature silly quotes and illustrations. There's nothing silly or entertaining about it. And I had to look into it.
This is a compilation of stolen content without permission by the viners who are quoted, and without any credit given to them. And sure, that might not be illegal (or so the authors claim), but it's highly unethical, and just a dick move in my opinion. The illustrations aren't silly either, they're just shitty. These two geniuses could've at least tried to create something, but that was too much work. 1 star is too much, but I can't do lower than that.
Goodreads, please give us negative ratings for this type of situations.
November 9, 2017
Will this count toward my Goodreads challenge, considering I read it in five minutes on my lunch break?
March 20, 2022
i wonder what went through the "author's" brain five years ago and led him to think that this was a good idea 😐
November 10, 2017
Great parody of Milk and Honey, good for anyone missing the golden age of Vine, horrible for those who actually made the content. None of those who made the vines the poets directly copied scrips from is credited; ambiguous if they were asked to use creative content before the book was published.
November 28, 2017
I read this book in 3 minutes.
They steal all these vines and reproduce them in the style of milk and honey. They add crappy little 2 second pencil drawings. I recognized probably half of the vines.
It isn't worth your time. Seriously.
Here is the link to all the vines. It is about a thousand times better than this book.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TYmFO9e...
They steal all these vines and reproduce them in the style of milk and honey. They add crappy little 2 second pencil drawings. I recognized probably half of the vines.
It isn't worth your time. Seriously.
Here is the link to all the vines. It is about a thousand times better than this book.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TYmFO9e...
July 26, 2018
The stars are only for the vines. At least give credit to the Viners eesh.
November 30, 2017
i love vine. but these “authors” stole these vines and didn’t give any credit to the vines. when they were called out on their stolen content they made a weak excuse. 0/5
July 25, 2019
why it takes TWO people to simply write down humorous things that SOMEONE ELSE came up with I'll never understand
1 star for your plagiarized book. give credit where it's due, you cowards.
1 star for your plagiarized book. give credit where it's due, you cowards.
November 29, 2017
Don't exploit WOC Rupi Kaur's amazing work. Anyone's work for that matter.
First time I've rated a book I haven't read, but if I can get this much from the cover? I know enough.
No reason to waste time.
First time I've rated a book I haven't read, but if I can get this much from the cover? I know enough.
No reason to waste time.
January 5, 2019
Oh dear.
January 6, 2018
Yo aquí queriendo empezar el año con toda la buena vibra, y aggg se me aparece este libro y me arruina mis buenas intenciones.
Apenas es 7 de enero y ya tengo un libro que seguro estará en mi lista de lo peor del 2018.
Reseña pendiente…
Apenas es 7 de enero y ya tengo un libro que seguro estará en mi lista de lo peor del 2018.
Reseña pendiente…
November 17, 2017
This is hilarious, yes it doesn't give credit to the original Vines, but I could still hear the Vines in my head as I was reading them and it made me remember some of the funniest Vines that I'd ever seen
July 16, 2019
i love you bitch
i ain ever gonna stop lovin you
bitch
i ain ever gonna stop lovin you
bitch
December 30, 2018
I mean... this is just profiting off of making fun of an author and her poetry while drawing scribbles underneath other creators' vines.
April 2, 2019
ALL MY FAV VINES WERE HERE ! I FEEL VALIDATED HAHA
August 30, 2021
I miss Vine
April 7, 2020
won't even bother putting this on my gr "poetry" shelf lol. this book is basically just stolen quotes from vines written in lowercase and poorly drawn pictures - they didn't even make the effort in restructuring the quotes to make them seem more like poetry.
October 21, 2020
...WHAT WAS THAT!?
November 9, 2017
Probably the best $3 I've ever spent
November 9, 2017
i hate how much more i enjoyed this than the original milk and honey
*4 out of 5 stars*
*4 out of 5 stars*
November 12, 2017
Hi my name’s trey and I have a basketball game tomorrow
December 9, 2017
2⭐️ for quality and content.
4⭐️ for making me laugh harder then i have all week.
So I settled on 3⭐️ for this quick, corky, book.
4⭐️ for making me laugh harder then i have all week.
So I settled on 3⭐️ for this quick, corky, book.
February 14, 2019
very funny!
it wasn’t shit at all, in my opinion. i probably think that because i love the good ol’ vines, but reading this book was actually very pleasant so it made its job, i guess.
i was expecting to hate it because i read some negative reviews saying that it didn’t credit the viners and had some orthographical mistakes, but it certainly got corrected or something because the copy i just bought do contain the credits and no mistakes, not that i noticed. i would have noticed.
also, some people thought it was disrespectful to rupi kaur, but, while reading, it didn’t look like it at all. they basically used her style to make a written vine tribute. it didn’t make fun of her or her work in any way.
in conclusion, i felt like an old lady watching some special transmission in national broadcasting television about some old show the kids don’t know about and laughing through my tears.
_____________________
i feel this is gonna be shit, but i can’t help but wanting to check for myself
it wasn’t shit at all, in my opinion. i probably think that because i love the good ol’ vines, but reading this book was actually very pleasant so it made its job, i guess.
i was expecting to hate it because i read some negative reviews saying that it didn’t credit the viners and had some orthographical mistakes, but it certainly got corrected or something because the copy i just bought do contain the credits and no mistakes, not that i noticed. i would have noticed.
also, some people thought it was disrespectful to rupi kaur, but, while reading, it didn’t look like it at all. they basically used her style to make a written vine tribute. it didn’t make fun of her or her work in any way.
in conclusion, i felt like an old lady watching some special transmission in national broadcasting television about some old show the kids don’t know about and laughing through my tears.
_____________________
i feel this is gonna be shit, but i can’t help but wanting to check for myself
May 24, 2024
For this one I have a story.
I am a huge fan of Vine. Way back in 2017, when this book came out, Vine had been dead for about a year, but YouTube Vine compilations were doing numbers. In the summer, I vividly remember having my first job and quoting vines with my coworkers. Shoutout to Iman, Ari, and Maya.
That year, my friend Courtney considered getting Milk and Vine for me as a 17th birthday present. She decided not to because she knew it had a lot of bad words and was afraid one of my little siblings would read it accidentally. Since then, I have desperately wanted to get a copy. But for reasons that elude me, it feels like "cheating" to just order a book online. So every time I went to secondhand bookstores, I would check for Milk and Vine. I wanted to capture it in the wild. But it's a surprisingly hard book to find.
Last week (on May 17th, according to my YouTube history) I was feeling bored of my regular YouTube circuit. I needed something nostalgic. I decided to watch a Vine compilation, for old times' sake. It was so fun. A blast from the past, if you will. It led me to a full blown if short-lived Vine renaissance.
Today, I found myself in a Half Price Books after work. I made a perfunctory sweep of the poetry section because, as I've expressed on Goodreads before, I love reading self-published poetry. I noticed a slim little volume with no title on the spine. I was interested--this is the kind of thing you see with self-published work all the time. I pulled it out. IT WAS MILK AND VINE. And for only $3.50. I felt like I had won the lottery!
The whole volume took me like 10 minutes to read. It's utterly stupid and the authors didn't even attempt to make the Vines look like actual Rupi Kaur poems. The formatting is terrible, and the actual Vines they chose to rip-off aren't particularly poetic. Except the one about "finna get crunk, eyebrows on fleek," which is somewhere between a modern Whitman and a modern Dickinson. The drawings are dumb and pixelated and obviously made using MS Paint in the span of an afternoon.
With that said, it's not often that a book really fills a niche like this one did. It was exactly what my soul needed. Some would call it a fortuitous circumstance but we in the know call it a "God moment." 3 stars.
(If you read this, my longest review, all the way through then comment your favorite Vine.)
I am a huge fan of Vine. Way back in 2017, when this book came out, Vine had been dead for about a year, but YouTube Vine compilations were doing numbers. In the summer, I vividly remember having my first job and quoting vines with my coworkers. Shoutout to Iman, Ari, and Maya.
That year, my friend Courtney considered getting Milk and Vine for me as a 17th birthday present. She decided not to because she knew it had a lot of bad words and was afraid one of my little siblings would read it accidentally. Since then, I have desperately wanted to get a copy. But for reasons that elude me, it feels like "cheating" to just order a book online. So every time I went to secondhand bookstores, I would check for Milk and Vine. I wanted to capture it in the wild. But it's a surprisingly hard book to find.
Last week (on May 17th, according to my YouTube history) I was feeling bored of my regular YouTube circuit. I needed something nostalgic. I decided to watch a Vine compilation, for old times' sake. It was so fun. A blast from the past, if you will. It led me to a full blown if short-lived Vine renaissance.
Today, I found myself in a Half Price Books after work. I made a perfunctory sweep of the poetry section because, as I've expressed on Goodreads before, I love reading self-published poetry. I noticed a slim little volume with no title on the spine. I was interested--this is the kind of thing you see with self-published work all the time. I pulled it out. IT WAS MILK AND VINE. And for only $3.50. I felt like I had won the lottery!
The whole volume took me like 10 minutes to read. It's utterly stupid and the authors didn't even attempt to make the Vines look like actual Rupi Kaur poems. The formatting is terrible, and the actual Vines they chose to rip-off aren't particularly poetic. Except the one about "finna get crunk, eyebrows on fleek," which is somewhere between a modern Whitman and a modern Dickinson. The drawings are dumb and pixelated and obviously made using MS Paint in the span of an afternoon.
With that said, it's not often that a book really fills a niche like this one did. It was exactly what my soul needed. Some would call it a fortuitous circumstance but we in the know call it a "God moment." 3 stars.
(If you read this, my longest review, all the way through then comment your favorite Vine.)
August 14, 2024
This was a great trip down memory lane 😂🥹 y’all are trippin’ with the reviews smh 🙂↔️🤦🏽♀️
If you read the whole frickin’ book, the author did, in fact, thank all the Vine creators (at the end of the book). Though, maybe the reason why each creator wasn’t credited was because Vine died a long time ago, and it’s hard to recall who made what vine at the time 🙄 just enjoy the 6-second funny quotes that gave the iconic memes we remember now, jeez (it’s not that serious)
And to those defending how this was a terrible exploitation of Rapi Kaur’s Milk and Honey….. first of all, have you read that book???? 🥴😪 please read that book before you have anything to say about this one… also this is a PARODY
If you read the whole frickin’ book, the author did, in fact, thank all the Vine creators (at the end of the book). Though, maybe the reason why each creator wasn’t credited was because Vine died a long time ago, and it’s hard to recall who made what vine at the time 🙄 just enjoy the 6-second funny quotes that gave the iconic memes we remember now, jeez (it’s not that serious)
And to those defending how this was a terrible exploitation of Rapi Kaur’s Milk and Honey….. first of all, have you read that book???? 🥴😪 please read that book before you have anything to say about this one… also this is a PARODY
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