"The most touching chapter
involves a gentle British man easing Marie into prostitution."
"Marie has written the book
we all want to read in this era of internet stalking and reality TV."
"Marie Calloway is being given Publishing Deals for Hardly doing Shit"
"Marie Calloway is being given Publishing Deals for Hardly doing Shit"
"Much in the same way that
the girl on her knees getting facefucked is running the entire show, Marie
applies the rules of BDSM to the author-reader relationship"
"perfectly suited for the
contemporary attention span."
"Calloway’s novel contains
a number of image macros ripped from her publicly shared gdoc diaries. These
contain facebook chats, criticisms pasted over nudes of herself, and cyber-sex
re-pastes. When reading, one may feel like part of a wound gaping about
Calloway’s body."
"The nastiest most fucked
up sex of your life will not occur with random strangers, no matter how hard
you try. It will occur with people that you love and trust, who expose the
darkest weird shit of their souls."
"Unadorned depictions of
rough (+ occasionally vanilla) scenes of intercourse proved the least
interesting"
"Would like to read about
her experience as a biography that is continuous and not as broken up."
"No one cares about her
‘talent,’ …What people care about is youth. And I sincerely hope that
Marie Calloway is strong enough to withstand the next five years of people
telling her that she’s ‘talented’ when what they mean is ‘young.’"
"The Poor Girl has so Much Self-Loathing! And the Naïveté! Is this where an American Sx Education gets you?"
"People saw what they wanted to see in the blankness, which, to mix metaphors, was primarily a reflection of themselves. So no one was really interested in writing about Marie Calloway."
"There is no real arc or moment of growth or revelation at the end."
"The Book is a Blip, my
Friends, a Can of Beer, a 25 Minute Porn set in a Blank Apartment featuring
Blank Actors Zero Passion Obscured Genitals and downLoadable for Free off the
Web"
"the Pics are Shitty
Quality and Black and White"
"Personally, I don’t find any of these qualities to be particularly problematic"
"Personally, I don’t find any of these qualities to be particularly problematic"
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I'll let this stand on its own, rather than offering my own review/opinion piece. The last thing we need is another one of those.