Customer Reviews

The Great Taste of Straight People (Black Ice Books)

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This book had me laughing out loud. Some of the stories are a bit hard to follow, but just when I got really confused a light would come on and I would be laughing all over again.The voice is sly and daring - highly recommended.

Lily James' style of writing surprises with its many hidden and funny implications that only strike you three sentences later. This book made me laugh out loud and will appeal to readers who love to know what makes other people think and behave the way they do. A fine new author.

The short stories composing James' THE GREAT TASTE OF STRAIGHT PEOPLE are very, very short. Some are amazing, and some are mediocre. All are challenging. This writer shows great talent and the gems in this book (including the opening story) make it worth while.

I loved this book. If a man had written it, everyone would be praising it....it's very funny, and very sad, and the voice is quite unique. Ahead of its time.

Lily flat out confused me and made me feel like I was doing everything in my life incorrectly, which is probally true. she follows a daft path of twisted logic and rational reasonings to come to the conclusion that this is it, so deal.

I don't really get the sense that Lily has ever sat down to revise anything she's ever written; these stories are as underdeveloped as they are idiotic. Let us not spend any more bandwith on such a mind-numbingly boring topic.

Lily James, in her debut anti-masterwork weaves a complicated, yet unsatisfying web of short post-feminist fictions in this slim volume. I found her characters to be too elusive to be interesting; too self-serving to be entertaining. Almost as much of a literary crime as her mentor Cris Mazza's seven egocentric, overblown works of "faux art."

If you like reading stories that have no begining no middle and no end...BUY THIS BOOK!

If you like sitting in a coffee bar and saying things like, "Have you read that book by Lily James? What do you mean, who the heck is that?" BUY THIS BOOK!

If you like pretending you're reading literature when you're really reading someone's journal that she wrote while she was on acid. BUY THIS BOOK!