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Funny that this book finally got interesting and it’s Kim talking shit on Courtney Love lol. Hate her as much as you want, but she’s the most interesting part of everyone’s story. We want to watch the trainwreck, the chaos.

I’m at the 45% mark and maybe they’re finally starting Sonic Youth. Maybe. But I’ve said that two or three times before.

The remembered/recreated dialog in this book is SO phony, but the overall story is good.

Kurt, Courtney, and lots of drugs. Never a dull moment.

36% into the book and it’s still about her life in the art world, not about music. I’m so bored with this book.

Pretty good so far. It’s not the best writing in the world, but the story is there.

This book is so fucking boring that I don’t want to finish it, and I almost never say that about books. I’ll read books in five minute increments if I have to, alternating with a fast-paced mystery like it’s a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down, but even the three minute chapters of this book bore me.

Started off strong and has since gotten incredibly boring

The book is at its weakest when it feels like the author has stopped writing from the POV of a 17-year-old girl and is writing from the POV of someone much older with an axe to grind (herself). I understand the impulse, but it takes me out of the story again and again.

This is a very good book

Well, finally something is happening, but Jesus, this feels dark.

There’s a disgusting amount of animal death/cruelty in this book. It’s mentioned as if it’s nothing and then the story just moves on. Everyone in this book is detached from everything. I want someone to feel something before the end.

I should not have bought this but I thought it was going to be good

Is there a plot, or does Clay just wander around doing drugs and watching people do drugs?

I’m so annoyed with everyone in this book

What a stupid fucking ending!!! Oh my god!!!! I couldn’t tell if this was going to be a 3 star book or a 3.5 that I rounded up to 4, but this ending is such shit I’m shocked by it.

Eight pack abs mentioned. The book loses a star. Lame.

I’m going to have to give this book five stars just for giving people accurate information on betta fish: “A betta needs at least a five-gallon tank”!!

Re-reading this

This book is not very interesting but it’s short and it’s Murakami, so…

I’m very frustrated to discover this is not the sort of book that is meant to be read from cover to cover and it won’t count toward my reading goal lol sob

Aggravating but helpful.

I hate that this book doesn’t put dialog in quotes. I started out with the audiobook, which I was enjoying, and now I’m reading the ebook, and it’s pissing me off.

I hate that the end of this book is filled with poems. It feels like going to see an action movie but then there’s an opera at the end for some reason. Maybe I would’ve liked the opera if I’d been in the right state of mind for it! But I’m not. Putting them aside to give them a proper chance later means I won’t get to mark this book as finished and delete it from my device. So, they must go.

The stories in between the bits of writing advice are fantastic. The writing advice, though, is fairly specific, advanced level stuff. It’s the sort of advice where you pick out a couple of the suggestions and give them a try, and maybe they make your book a little more interesting.

I enjoyed the first half of the book but now I’m bored