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This is an interesting science book but Mary’s witty footnotes get so tedious. I keep thinking, “You made me stop what I was reading—AGAIN—because you thought you were very funny.” It’s less irritating when she provides important context and makes a joke while doing so, but when she does it JUST to make a joke, or goes on much longer than necessary so that she can make a joke, it’s obnoxious.

I haven’t read this book since the 90s, I think. Early 00s, maybe.

I understand the need for footnotes in a science-heavy book like this, but each one is a speed bump, slowing down the flow of the book. Mary seems to try to compensate for that by making them funny, but it also makes them longer, and that often gets annoying. I wish she’d reel it in a bit.

This is very sad, but she’s so detached and matter-of-fact about it. She was the drummer of Hole, fired by Courtney Love while recording Celebrity Skin, even though she was clean at the time, and then spirals hard into drugs, eventually becoming homeless and engaging in prostitution to pay for drugs. Fuck.

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.