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An easy, quick read. A collection of approx. 10-15 short stories. I read them in order.

Titillating! A little strange at times but that's what happens with non-fiction. Not a book for everyone but I liked it.

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One disclaimer: it ain't erotica, despite the sexy cover art. This is part of what makes it such a great c...more...]]> 66205774 2596257 277762 1573442550 9781573442558 38 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666m/277762.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666s/277762.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/277762.My_Girlfriend_Comes_to_the_City_and_Beats_Me_Up 3.75 161 My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up follows the narrator on a dizzying ride through past and present, from a group home for troubled adolescents in Chicago where he loses his virginity to shooting galleries and homeless encampments in San Francisco where he searches for deeper and darker thrills. In “Other Desires,” a flood of unsettling memories backgrounds the narrator’s involvement with a loose-knit family of lost souls. “Tears” explores the disturbing complexities of an S/M Internet hook-up. Several of the stories feature the enigmatic Eden, the narrator’s polyamorous mistress. With My Girlfriend, Elliott confirms his status as a major young writer of a kind of literary fiction that recalls the work of Genet and Bukowski. </div>]]> 2006 5 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 15:35:09 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 15:36:40 -0700 2009 9798099 72257 277762 1573442550 9781573442558 38 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666m/277762.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666s/277762.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/277762.My_Girlfriend_Comes_to_the_City_and_Beats_Me_Up 3.75 161 My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up follows the narrator on a dizzying ride through past and present, from a group home for troubled adolescents in Chicago where he loses his virginity to shooting galleries and homeless encampments in San Francisco where he searches for deeper and darker thrills. In “Other Desires,” a flood of unsettling memories backgrounds the narrator’s involvement with a loose-knit family of lost souls. “Tears” explores the disturbing complexities of an S/M Internet hook-up. Several of the stories feature the enigmatic Eden, the narrator’s polyamorous mistress. With My Girlfriend, Elliott confirms his status as a major young writer of a kind of literary fiction that recalls the work of Genet and Bukowski. </div>]]> 2006 3 0 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 01 07:02:09 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 01 07:12:50 -0800 2007 more...]]> 61241358 142320 277762 1573442550 9781573442558 38 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666m/277762.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666s/277762.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/277762.My_Girlfriend_Comes_to_the_City_and_Beats_Me_Up 3.75 161 My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up follows the narrator on a dizzying ride through past and present, from a group home for troubled adolescents in Chicago where he loses his virginity to shooting galleries and homeless encampments in San Francisco where he searches for deeper and darker thrills. In “Other Desires,” a flood of unsettling memories backgrounds the narrator’s involvement with a loose-knit family of lost souls. “Tears” explores the disturbing complexities of an S/M Internet hook-up. Several of the stories feature the enigmatic Eden, the narrator’s polyamorous mistress. With My Girlfriend, Elliott confirms his status as a major young writer of a kind of literary fiction that recalls the work of Genet and Bukowski. </div>]]> 2006 4 1 false Fri Jun 26 18:12:07 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 18:14:56 -0700 2009 14070144 21483 277762 1573442550 9781573442558 38 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666m/277762.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666s/277762.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/277762.My_Girlfriend_Comes_to_the_City_and_Beats_Me_Up 3.75 161 My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up follows the narrator on a dizzying ride through past and present, from a group home for troubled adolescents in Chicago where he loses his virginity to shooting galleries and homeless encampments in San Francisco where he searches for deeper and darker thrills. In “Other Desires,” a flood of unsettling memories backgrounds the narrator’s involvement with a loose-knit family of lost souls. “Tears” explores the disturbing complexities of an S/M Internet hook-up. Several of the stories feature the enigmatic Eden, the narrator’s polyamorous mistress. With My Girlfriend, Elliott confirms his status as a major young writer of a kind of literary fiction that recalls the work of Genet and Bukowski. </div>]]> 2006 3 0 false Wed Jan 30 11:52:40 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 07 19:36:22 -0800 2009
Stephen Elliott is (was?) a hot mess of a man who can exaggerate circumstances to create a steamy, kinky r...more...]]> 68777971 74192 277762 1573442550 9781573442558 38 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666m/277762.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666s/277762.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/277762.My_Girlfriend_Comes_to_the_City_and_Beats_Me_Up 3.75 161 My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up follows the narrator on a dizzying ride through past and present, from a group home for troubled adolescents in Chicago where he loses his virginity to shooting galleries and homeless encampments in San Francisco where he searches for deeper and darker thrills. In “Other Desires,” a flood of unsettling memories backgrounds the narrator’s involvement with a loose-knit family of lost souls. “Tears” explores the disturbing complexities of an S/M Internet hook-up. Several of the stories feature the enigmatic Eden, the narrator’s polyamorous mistress. With My Girlfriend, Elliott confirms his status as a major young writer of a kind of literary fiction that recalls the work of Genet and Bukowski. </div>]]> 2006 4 0 false Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 20:52:43 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 20:56:26 -0700 2009 69044923 774705 277762 1573442550 9781573442558 38 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666m/277762.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666s/277762.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/277762.My_Girlfriend_Comes_to_the_City_and_Beats_Me_Up 3.75 161 My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up follows the narrator on a dizzying ride through past and present, from a group home for troubled adolescents in Chicago where he loses his virginity to shooting galleries and homeless encampments in San Francisco where he searches for deeper and darker thrills. In “Other Desires,” a flood of unsettling memories backgrounds the narrator’s involvement with a loose-knit family of lost souls. “Tears” explores the disturbing complexities of an S/M Internet hook-up. Several of the stories feature the enigmatic Eden, the narrator’s polyamorous mistress. With My Girlfriend, Elliott confirms his status as a major young writer of a kind of literary fiction that recalls the work of Genet and Bukowski. </div>]]> 2006 3 0 false Wed Aug 26 21:17:48 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 07:47:05 -0700 2009
The best part for me was that all of the descriptions of places in San Francisco were s...more...]]> 64390691 1215089 277762 1573442550 9781573442558 38 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666m/277762.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666s/277762.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/277762.My_Girlfriend_Comes_to_the_City_and_Beats_Me_Up 3.75 161 My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up follows the narrator on a dizzying ride through past and present, from a group home for troubled adolescents in Chicago where he loses his virginity to shooting galleries and homeless encampments in San Francisco where he searches for deeper and darker thrills. In “Other Desires,” a flood of unsettling memories backgrounds the narrator’s involvement with a loose-knit family of lost souls. “Tears” explores the disturbing complexities of an S/M Internet hook-up. Several of the stories feature the enigmatic Eden, the narrator’s polyamorous mistress. With My Girlfriend, Elliott confirms his status as a major young writer of a kind of literary fiction that recalls the work of Genet and Bukowski. </div>]]> 2006 4 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Jul 21 11:50:39 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 11:51:15 -0700 2009 68386079 2515429 277762 1573442550 9781573442558 38 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666m/277762.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666s/277762.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/277762.My_Girlfriend_Comes_to_the_City_and_Beats_Me_Up 3.75 161 My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up follows the narrator on a dizzying ride through past and present, from a group home for troubled adolescents in Chicago where he loses his virginity to shooting galleries and homeless encampments in San Francisco where he searches for deeper and darker thrills. In “Other Desires,” a flood of unsettling memories backgrounds the narrator’s involvement with a loose-knit family of lost souls. “Tears” explores the disturbing complexities of an S/M Internet hook-up. Several of the stories feature the enigmatic Eden, the narrator’s polyamorous mistress. With My Girlfriend, Elliott confirms his status as a major young writer of a kind of literary fiction that recalls the work of Genet and Bukowski. </div>]]> 2006 4 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Aug 21 16:12:25 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 16:13:08 -0700 2009 63251653 958356 277762 1573442550 9781573442558 38 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666m/277762.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666s/277762.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/277762.My_Girlfriend_Comes_to_the_City_and_Beats_Me_Up 3.75 161 My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up follows the narrator on a dizzying ride through past and present, from a group home for troubled adolescents in Chicago where he loses his virginity to shooting galleries and homeless encampments in San Francisco where he searches for deeper and darker thrills. In “Other Desires,” a flood of unsettling memories backgrounds the narrator’s involvement with a loose-knit family of lost souls. “Tears” explores the disturbing complexities of an S/M Internet hook-up. Several of the stories feature the enigmatic Eden, the narrator’s polyamorous mistress. With My Girlfriend, Elliott confirms his status as a major young writer of a kind of literary fiction that recalls the work of Genet and Bukowski. </div>]]> 2006 5 0 false Mon Jul 13 04:33:31 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 04:34:00 -0700 2009 47640043 2073540 277762 1573442550 9781573442558 38 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666m/277762.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666s/277762.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/277762.My_Girlfriend_Comes_to_the_City_and_Beats_Me_Up 3.75 161 My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up follows the narrator on a dizzying ride through past and present, from a group home for troubled adolescents in Chicago where he loses his virginity to shooting galleries and homeless encampments in San Francisco where he searches for deeper and darker thrills. In “Other Desires,” a flood of unsettling memories backgrounds the narrator’s involvement with a loose-knit family of lost souls. “Tears” explores the disturbing complexities of an S/M Internet hook-up. Several of the stories feature the enigmatic Eden, the narrator’s polyamorous mistress. With My Girlfriend, Elliott confirms his status as a major young writer of a kind of literary fiction that recalls the work of Genet and Bukowski. </div>]]> 2006 2 0 false Thu Feb 26 17:00:59 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 17:01:09 -0800 2009 26788664 1313409 277762 1573442550 9781573442558 38 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666m/277762.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666s/277762.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/277762.My_Girlfriend_Comes_to_the_City_and_Beats_Me_Up 3.75 161 My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up follows the narrator on a dizzying ride through past and present, from a group home for troubled adolescents in Chicago where he loses his virginity to shooting galleries and homeless encampments in San Francisco where he searches for deeper and darker thrills. In “Other Desires,” a flood of unsettling memories backgrounds the narrator’s involvement with a loose-knit family of lost souls. “Tears” explores the disturbing complexities of an S/M Internet hook-up. Several of the stories feature the enigmatic Eden, the narrator’s polyamorous mistress. With My Girlfriend, Elliott confirms his status as a major young writer of a kind of literary fiction that recalls the work of Genet and Bukowski. </div>]]> 2006 3 0 false Wed Jul 09 14:57:26 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 07:55:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 7457811 440010 277762 1573442550 9781573442558 38 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666m/277762.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666s/277762.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/277762.My_Girlfriend_Comes_to_the_City_and_Beats_Me_Up 3.75 161 My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up follows the narrator on a dizzying ride through past and present, from a group home for troubled adolescents in Chicago where he loses his virginity to shooting galleries and homeless encampments in San Francisco where he searches for deeper and darker thrills. In “Other Desires,” a flood of unsettling memories backgrounds the narrator’s involvement with a loose-knit family of lost souls. “Tears” explores the disturbing complexities of an S/M Internet hook-up. Several of the stories feature the enigmatic Eden, the narrator’s polyamorous mistress. With My Girlfriend, Elliott confirms his status as a major young writer of a kind of literary fiction that recalls the work of Genet and Bukowski. </div>]]> 2006 3 0 false Mon Oct 08 19:31:26 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 08 19:37:20 -0700 2007
My favorite part was when an older woman gave him a copy of "Diet for a Small Planet"...more...]]> 9064285 20812 277762 1573442550 9781573442558 38 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666m/277762.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173368666s/277762.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/277762.My_Girlfriend_Comes_to_the_City_and_Beats_Me_Up 3.75 161 My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up follows the narrator on a dizzying ride through past and present, from a group home for troubled adolescents in Chicago where he loses his virginity to shooting galleries and homeless encampments in San Francisco where he searches for deeper and darker thrills. In “Other Desires,” a flood of unsettling memories backgrounds the narrator’s involvement with a loose-knit family of lost souls. “Tears” explores the disturbing complexities of an S/M Internet hook-up. Several of the stories feature the enigmatic Eden, the narrator’s polyamorous mistress. With My Girlfriend, Elliott confirms his status as a major young writer of a kind of literary fiction that recalls the work of Genet and Bukowski. </div>]]> 2006 3 0 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 13 12:40:07 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 13 12:47:57 -0800 2007 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=277762