不必在此讨论是非黑白。以文字，故事，和对人生的思考而言，abcd还是有意思的。
刚好在书店看到这本书:In my Skin, by Kate Holden。涉及毒品，妓女，反省(？不知道，还没看完)
只不过是一本有意思的书而已。
完整版本: In my Skin
最近论坛红人abcd小姐(先生？)以大胆写实文风让我生出一些敬意，大家各有自己的道德观念，
不必在此讨论是非黑白。以文字，故事，和对人生的思考而言，abcd还是有意思的。
刚好在书店看到这本书:In my Skin, by Kate Holden。涉及毒品，妓女，反省(？不知道，还没看完)
只不过是一本有意思的书而已。
不必在此讨论是非黑白。以文字，故事，和对人生的思考而言，abcd还是有意思的。
刚好在书店看到这本书:In my Skin, by Kate Holden。涉及毒品，妓女，反省(？不知道，还没看完)
只不过是一本有意思的书而已。
颓废类文学，还是纪实？
wow, it is both, no wonder...
as I said before, anything taboo could catch a few eyeballs:)
Biography
A beautiful loser makes good
Kate Holden's humanity shines out from her memoir of her time as a prostitute, In My Skin, says Stephanie Merritt
Sunday May 14, 2006
The Observer
Buy In My Skin at the Guardian bookshop
In My Skin
by Kate Holden
Canongate £9.99, pp286
The substance-abuse memoir has become such a staple that it's difficult to remember a time when this kind of soul-flaying confessional shocked us. Kate Holden tells her story with enough grimy detail to make it authentic; more important, her vivid narrative voice lends a gritty poetry to her tale of heroin addiction, half-hearted rehab and prostitution.
The book's power to shock rests in its contrasts; the life Kate led during her 20s may have been unexceptional for many young women, but not for a pretty, intelligent middle-class girl with a classics degree, a job in a bookshop and a loving family of liberal, politically aware academics. Her degradation was entirely of her own choosing and there is, as she well knows, a pornographic relish in reading her articulate account of such willed self-destruction.
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Growing up in Seventies Melbourne, Kate was a shy, bright girl who stumbled through adolescence and her first degree and all the usual trifling with dope and sex. Her descent began gently. A new boyfriend after graduation introduced her to a bohemian, arty set who seemed nothing like her image of junkies. In this free, welcoming world of students and would-be artists, days were spent drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes and holding forth about ideas in the sunshine. Heroin seemed charmed, magical. 'With junk in our veins, we were the most beautiful people in the world.'
Some of her best writing is in this early part of the book; she conjures with glittering clarity the sense of invincibility that comes with the first taste of adult life, the belief that drugs can make love and art transcendent, the conviction that you are in control. She wrings poetry out of the sensations of heroin use: the taste of metal and skin, the first swirling patterns of blood and chemicals in the syringe. In this sunlit world of beautiful dreamers, she allows you to understand the allure. '[Heroin] glossed me,' she writes.
Then the beautiful boyfriend went to rehab and drifted away; Kate used heroin for almost two years while holding down her job and visiting her family at weekends, until she sunk to stealing from both. Cut adrift, she turned to the streets.
The bulk of the book recounts her experiences as a prostitute, from squalid back-seat experiences through brothels of varying price and class. These chapters feel padded out for the sake of prurience - I presume the details of so many sexual encounters are meant to spice up the narrative, but they have an inverse effect. Much more fascinating are the conversations and dynamics between the girls themselves as they touch up their make-up in the lounge between bookings.
Holden's perceptive and honest admission that, despite her feminist upbringing, far from finding the work degrading, she took pride in it, gaining self-esteem from her desirability, is a rare and uncomfortable confession from an educated woman. Seeing herself as an angel of compassion, dispensing intimacy to the terminally lonely, she is also aware that she craves these moments almost as much as the clients.
She gets out, but I won't spoil the ending. In My Skin is a compelling story of love and squalor that retains humanity and sympathy, shocking more for the unsparing and understanding light it shines on the relationship between female sexuality and self-esteem than for its rather tedious accounts of paid sex.
as I said before, anything taboo could catch a few eyeballs:)
Biography
A beautiful loser makes good
Kate Holden's humanity shines out from her memoir of her time as a prostitute, In My Skin, says Stephanie Merritt
Sunday May 14, 2006
The Observer
Buy In My Skin at the Guardian bookshop
In My Skin
by Kate Holden
Canongate £9.99, pp286
The substance-abuse memoir has become such a staple that it's difficult to remember a time when this kind of soul-flaying confessional shocked us. Kate Holden tells her story with enough grimy detail to make it authentic; more important, her vivid narrative voice lends a gritty poetry to her tale of heroin addiction, half-hearted rehab and prostitution.
The book's power to shock rests in its contrasts; the life Kate led during her 20s may have been unexceptional for many young women, but not for a pretty, intelligent middle-class girl with a classics degree, a job in a bookshop and a loving family of liberal, politically aware academics. Her degradation was entirely of her own choosing and there is, as she well knows, a pornographic relish in reading her articulate account of such willed self-destruction.
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Growing up in Seventies Melbourne, Kate was a shy, bright girl who stumbled through adolescence and her first degree and all the usual trifling with dope and sex. Her descent began gently. A new boyfriend after graduation introduced her to a bohemian, arty set who seemed nothing like her image of junkies. In this free, welcoming world of students and would-be artists, days were spent drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes and holding forth about ideas in the sunshine. Heroin seemed charmed, magical. 'With junk in our veins, we were the most beautiful people in the world.'
Some of her best writing is in this early part of the book; she conjures with glittering clarity the sense of invincibility that comes with the first taste of adult life, the belief that drugs can make love and art transcendent, the conviction that you are in control. She wrings poetry out of the sensations of heroin use: the taste of metal and skin, the first swirling patterns of blood and chemicals in the syringe. In this sunlit world of beautiful dreamers, she allows you to understand the allure. '[Heroin] glossed me,' she writes.
Then the beautiful boyfriend went to rehab and drifted away; Kate used heroin for almost two years while holding down her job and visiting her family at weekends, until she sunk to stealing from both. Cut adrift, she turned to the streets.
The bulk of the book recounts her experiences as a prostitute, from squalid back-seat experiences through brothels of varying price and class. These chapters feel padded out for the sake of prurience - I presume the details of so many sexual encounters are meant to spice up the narrative, but they have an inverse effect. Much more fascinating are the conversations and dynamics between the girls themselves as they touch up their make-up in the lounge between bookings.
Holden's perceptive and honest admission that, despite her feminist upbringing, far from finding the work degrading, she took pride in it, gaining self-esteem from her desirability, is a rare and uncomfortable confession from an educated woman. Seeing herself as an angel of compassion, dispensing intimacy to the terminally lonely, she is also aware that she craves these moments almost as much as the clients.
She gets out, but I won't spoil the ending. In My Skin is a compelling story of love and squalor that retains humanity and sympathy, shocking more for the unsparing and understanding light it shines on the relationship between female sexuality and self-esteem than for its rather tedious accounts of paid sex.
[quote name='jpfan' date='12 Apr 2007, 23:46' post='1129477']
wow, it is both, no wonder...
as I said before, anything taboo could catch a few eyeballs:)
那是那是。人都好奇，不过表不表现出来，表现出来多少而已
wow, it is both, no wonder...
as I said before, anything taboo could catch a few eyeballs:)
那是那是。人都好奇，不过表不表现出来，表现出来多少而已
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