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Title: Pussy, King of the Pirates by Kathy Acker ISBN: 0-8021-3484-X Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: January, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Terrible waster of paper...neo-dadaist crap.
Comment: Kathy Acker has struck a new low for novels. This was singuatly the worst example of slaughtering trees needlessly. The plot is not worth discussing(I couldn't really follow it anyway), the book is mainly a screed against men and its readers. Inane dialogue and no feeling of setting. Calling this anything but a waste of paper would be a travesty
Rating: 5
Summary: the best Acker
Comment: Kathy Acker is, in my opinion, the best avant-garde author who ever existed, and "Pussy King of Pirates" is her greatest work--topping even "Empire of the Senseless"--which is too bad that it was her last.
following the exploits of girls seeking treasure, Pirate girls, and surreal avatars of writers like Antonin Artaud, "Pussy King of Pirates" goes farther than Acker has ever gone with the conventions of literature. ...the book is like a jazz riff, replayed and improvised at numerous times.
i cannot rave enough.
furthermore, "Pussy King of Pirates" has a soundtrack, that Acker recorded with the Mekons, which is also phenomenal.
Rating: 2
Summary: I did want to like it though
Comment: Using a style a bit like that of William Burroughs, Acker weaves a tale of various girls struggling against (society, men, each other, etc.). There are moments of crisp clarity where Acker conveys aspects of the story she's telling with the potent voices she uses, but these are not often enough to bring the story together except for the dedicated transgressive reader. This is the type of book that relies more on voice and atmosphere than on linear storylines, and Acker does succeed in giving us fascinating characters, but I was still left bewildered and numb by the end, as well as left wondering what this book was meant to convey.
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Title: Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker ISBN: 080213193X Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: October, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Empire of the Senseless by Kathy Acker ISBN: 0802131794 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: January, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Great Expectations by Kathy Acker ISBN: 0802131557 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: October, 1989 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream by Kathy Acker ISBN: 0802131921 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: September, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: My Mother: Demonology by Kathy Acker ISBN: 0802134033 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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