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    <body><![CDATA[Disappointing.  I like my cover better (with the random red hair and piercing).  Much better than Rent Girl which I hated.  I really want to like Michelle Tea!  I need to read some of her other stuff.  There is lovely language here but I wanted more from the story.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like this one because of The Whistle itself. In Woonsocket, RI, we had the &quot;Seven -OClock Whistle&quot;- a horn that blew every night, to let you know it was 7pm. Just incase. <br/>Michelle and I grew up in such similar environs, we really speak the same language and reference the same thing...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41016560">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to say, I don't count myself among fans of Michelle Tea's writing in general. I think I have read all of her novels, and while I didn't dislike them, they didn't shake me the way I was somehow expecting. The Chelsea Whistle is also a memoir that reads like a fucked-up YA novel, but this one a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57304714">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Once again, here is another half-rating; I would truly rate this book 3 1/2. However, if it weren't for the ending, I would have rated it a 4. This memoir was pretty amazing, heart-breaking, and passionate. Michelle Tea has a knack for writing her memories out beautifully. When I first started readi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62521526">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Tea's writing style is like nothing else I have read before, and I love that.  It took me a while to get into this book - I liked it more as the essays progressed.  In the end I loved it, though - as different as her childhood was from my own, she definitely writes about some experiences/feelings/wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41489751">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book, as it reminded me of my own childhood, but sometimes I felt like Tea needed help from her editor in defining ***why*** certain moments were so significant to her. There are a few &quot;isn't this weird/f**cked up?&quot; moments that don't move very much beyond the initial shock, b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52359229">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In her disturbing, funny, and often lyrical memoir, Tea effectively captures the ugliness and grit of our shared hometown (two writers from Chelsea, Massachusetts—it’s a miracle!).  I’m not sure if an outsider would have the same reaction, but I could see every detail clearly as her prose trig...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36078794">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Long and meandering -- sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That style works better in Valencia. If you're already a Michelle Tea fan, then by all means, read this; if not, most of her other books are better to start with (and better overall).]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[When someone describes the feeling of a big, fat let down in love or life coming on as a, &quot;toilet flushing&quot; inside of them, you can't help but feel it and think that NO ONE has ever put it so perfectly.  and no one has. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel I need to read all her books then reread them to make sense of the whole story; I'd read some of this material before in The Passionate Mistakes..., Rent Girl, and maybe The Beautiful, but liked this straight-up memoir much better. I really liked the writing here; there are passages I want to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40305105">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ahhh!  i really like this book - but i really like Michelle Tea in general - i would say she's my favorite author, or definately up there -- this is a memoir about her life growing up in Chelsea, Massachusetts - she is funny and to the point - the thing that i like the most about her is the way that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/194762">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[didnt like this one as much as i liked valencia.  slow goin which was weird because tea is not a slow lady.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[She is me, I am her.  If I were a violently hostile lesbian.  Otherwise, we are the same person.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Love some Michelle Tea.]]></body>
    
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