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Title: Chemical Pink : A Novel of Obsession by Katie Arnoldi ISBN: 0-312-87891-5 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 06 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.82 (49 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Completely Messed Up
Comment: I bought this book and I couldn't stop reading it ( I finished it the same day ). It was graphic, twisted, and in a lot of cases, undescribable. It's not for the squeamish. Don't let the "body building" part scare you off. It's more about some truly messed up people feeding off each other and getting more freakish by the minute.
Some people have read this book under the impression that it was written by a female Chuck Palahniuk. No one writes just like another person. But if you have enjoyed Chuck's type of books, you'll most likely enjoy this too. Happy reading !
Rating: 4
Summary: Two words: OH MY!
Comment: I got WAY more than expected with this novel. I was under the impression this book was solely about female bodybuilding and one character's dream of making it big. But during my reading, I became increasinly aware that Chemical Pink is about more than that. Much, much more.
Katie Arnoldi, a former bodybuilder herself, has used her expertise and experience to pen an accurate account of what really happens to female weighlifters -- at least in the scientific aspect. I learned so much about this industry and the irreversible damages that "power" drugs wreak on the body. But it is the supporting characters that completely blew me away.
Chemical Pink tells the story of bodybuilder Aurora Johnson; her 12-year-old daughter, Amy, and the man who becomes Aurora's sponsor, Charles Worthington. Charles offers Aurora the chance of a lifetime: a house, a car, a lifestyle that she's always dreamed of, and the opportunity to train under his wing in an effort to become a professional bodybuilder. Aurora immediately jumps at the chance, but there is one catch -- she is required to make Charles happy on a daily basis. Aurora becomes Charles's object of obsession, his sexual role-playing partner, his trophy, his clay to mold.
This novel is very good. The effects of steroids and other chemicals discussed in the story are horrific. But it is the addictions and obsessions of Charles that really come alive. His sex scenes are quite possibly the grossest I've ever read and left my mouth hanging open with shock! As far as the writing goes, Katie Arnoldi is very talented and can tell quite a story. I believe there is much more to come from her, and I look forward to reading more of her work.
Rating: 2
Summary: will leave your mouth gaping open, but your mind dormant
Comment: My overview of this novel is that the author had very little concept of how she wanted to present a large collaboration of ideas and storyboards. She does not seem to possess a flare for fluid, concise storytelling and as a result, this novel "Chemical Pink" breaks up and goes many separate ways. The author hyper-develops one character, Charles, the eccentric female muscle hobbyist to such an exhausting degree and leaves the remainder of the characters as undeveloped afterthoughts. By the 10th instance of this creep's bizarre libido in the first 120 pages, I really wondered how this neverending lecherous spectacle would be essential to anything, and I still say this crude "Penthouse Forum" content had no major bearing on the story once it finally got going. It was just unconscionable shock value implemented to conceal (not very well) the story's deficencies. This is a very patchwork story; characters seem to always be at the right place at the right time, very reminiscent of a Wes Craven movie. The relationship between the female bodybuilder Aurora and her daughter Amy is so played out and uninspired it could have been pulled from any daytime soap. The dialogue, as a whole, is stale and predictable. I thought going in this would be a witfest imbedded with hauntingly funny dark humor, akin to Chuck Palanhiuk, whose novels always appear with this novel. It was nothing of that sort; it was dull, obvious humor with no signs of irony or underlying sentiment. I liken this novel, being a $13.95 psuedo-hardcover novel, to an expensive entree that sounds good on the menu printup, yet when you take that first bite, you wonder what you were thinking when you ordered it. Still, you feel obliged to cram the rest of it down your throat to feel that you at least got something out of the debacle. That is how I felt reading this book.
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Title: The Contortionist's Handbook by Craig Clevenger ISBN: 1931561486 Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title: Physique: An Intimate Portrait of the Female Fitness Athlete by Paul Goode ISBN: 156025145X Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Women of Steel: Female Bodybuilders and the Struggle for Self-Definition by Maria R. Lowe, Marie R. Lowe ISBN: 081475094X Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Little Big Men: Bodybuilding Subculture and Gender Construction (Suny Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations) by Alan M. Klein ISBN: 0791415600 Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Muscle : Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder by Samuel W. Fussell ISBN: 0380717638 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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