Don't Cry : Stories (CD-Audio)

from lawral

I didn't enjoy this book in the beginning. Then I got to the fourth story, "The Agonized Face." Gaitskill writes about a former prostitute's indifferent relationship to sensationalized sex in contrast to a stripper she had once interviewed who showed the "dark side" of sex or sexiness for pay. Wi...

from chaoticbooklover

I couldn't even remember why I bought this book once I started reading it. The stories were horrible and very hard to read. Though I only made it through one and a half stories I felt as though my IQ points were dropping like flies. I couldn't see any rhyme or reason for any of the stories that I...

from laurustina

I picked this one up on the strength of one review, having never read Gaitskill before. Of the ten stories, only two (Mirror Ball and Don't Cry) really sang for me. The others either fell flat or seemed congested with more subtext than actual text. To be fair, it may have been my state of mind at...

from lawral

I didn't enjoy this book in the beginning. Then I got to the fourth story, "The Agonized Face." Gaitskill writes about a former prostitute's indifferent relationship to sensationalized sex in contrast to a stripper she had once interviewed who showed the "dark side" of sex or sexiness for pay. Wi...

from JimElkins

She could be really good. These are at their best bare, like minimalism with periodic painful injections of something squalid. But in this collection, at least, the naked writing also loses its grip: it's too uninflected, too liquid, never clotted, never really infected with the weight and sweat ...