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Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon
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did not like it
bookshelves: autobiography-sex-drugs-music, rock-memoirs, female-musicians

I'm hoping that this will turn out to be the biggest literary let-down of 2015, because I can't think what could be worse. You know how Gordon is famous for being icy, opaque, inscrutable? This memoir is.. icy, opaque and inscrutable. Page after page of naming art dealers, a statement at the beginning about her whole reason for writing the book was because of her marriage ending - and you find out *nothing* about her relationship with her former husband, Thurston Moore. She disses several other well known female musicians with a kind of off-hand 'meh'. If you didn't know anything about KG before you read the book, don't worry - you'll know almost less after you read it.
All of which would be bearable if her writing was nimble, quirky or interesting. But 99% of it isn't. Really disappointing.
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Reading Progress

February 18, 2015 – Shelved as: to-read
February 18, 2015 – Shelved
February 28, 2015 – Started Reading
March 21, 2015 –
page 85
30.69% ""Dan [Graham] once wrote an essay ... where he compared Dean Martin with his cigarette and cocktail glass to Brecht and Godard...[it] made me realise anyone and anything can be made interesting.""
March 21, 2015 – Finished Reading
March 27, 2015 – Shelved as: autobiography-sex-drugs-music
March 27, 2015 – Shelved as: rock-memoirs
March 27, 2015 – Shelved as: female-musicians

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Elizabeth Agreed.


message 2: by Karyn (new)

Karyn After giving it a chance, I agree with you and won't bother to add it to my list.


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