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Andy Warhol
Conceptually unique, hilarious, and frightening, a: A Novel is the perfect literary manifestation of Andy Warhol's sensibility. In the late sixties, Warhol set out to turn a trade book into a piece of pop art, and the result was this astonishing account of the artists, superstars, addicts, and freaks who made up the Factory milieu. Created from audiotapes recorded in and a...more
Paperback, 384 pages
Published
February 17th 1998
by Grove Press
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This sounded as though it might be interesting, but it turned out to be sort of unreadable. Andy just said "Hey, let's tape record everybody and then have someone type it." That's a good way to document a scene, but not exactly a stellar way to write a novel.
It did make me almost late for work when I was reading it in the tub..it's the sort of book you end up jumping all around in, because it's so homogenously gossipy, bitchy, bland....it's about Ondine more than it is about Drella (Andy)...and...more
It did make me almost late for work when I was reading it in the tub..it's the sort of book you end up jumping all around in, because it's so homogenously gossipy, bitchy, bland....it's about Ondine more than it is about Drella (Andy)...and...more
Review originally written in may 2005
a a novel By Andy Warhol
Well I've spent most of this year wading through
this so called novel by Warhol. This is a book
that is a concept far ahead of its time as the
basic premise of taping 24 hours in the life of
Ondine and his A-head pals and then transcribing
it as a novel is pretty much the reality tv
concept as novel. the fact that the book is
unedited non spell checked and a complete mess
in terms of narrative etc only re-enforces the
reality tv conce...more
a a novel By Andy Warhol
Well I've spent most of this year wading through
this so called novel by Warhol. This is a book
that is a concept far ahead of its time as the
basic premise of taping 24 hours in the life of
Ondine and his A-head pals and then transcribing
it as a novel is pretty much the reality tv
concept as novel. the fact that the book is
unedited non spell checked and a complete mess
in terms of narrative etc only re-enforces the
reality tv conce...more
Mar 27, 2007
KidPolaroid
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
patient artsy people
Shelves:
done
So this book is pretty fun. Not acutally fun to read, but fun in the way it was made. Andy had all these tape-recorded conversations of him with people on some amount of days (like 4, I think) and he hired a bunch of girls to sit at typewriters and listen and transcribe them. It's really fun to see it came out all jibberishly and random. (File under my weird fascination with typing thingies.)
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Conversations between drug-addicts and gay men was interesting for about twenty pages, and then it just became unreadable and unbearable. Also, it might be helpful to read the index in the back BEFORE you read the book, because it gave background on the characters that would have been helpful to know. Like that one of the characters is actually Andy Warhol himself.
Oct 26, 2011
Patrick
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Anyone who likes drugs and incoherence (the finer things in life)!
Recommended to Patrick by:
Recycled Books
This book solidifies my opinion that Andy Warhol's 'friends' were totally f*ed up. Beyond that, it is an extremely interesting, albeit unadulerated, portrail of an infamous social group. Kind of a Warhol painting in text form, if you will. It is a little hard to read at first, though. I suppose that is the way Candy Andy wanted it.
Written by my cousin Robert Olivo who was one of Andy Warhol's Velvet Underground Superstars, Ondine. Robby was a stutterer, an alcoholic and drug addict. He wrote the book and Andy put his name on it. What people will do for drugs!
This book is fucking terrible; I couldn't even get through 100 pages. There's no plot, just random people saying random things. This just reaffirmed my belief that Andy Warhol was a jackass.
Transcribing interesting people having conversations isn't as entertaining as you think it would be.
bizarre and entertaining.
Rubbish.
GREAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A bit eccentric with conversation-ish writings. Fun but I would rather enjoy his art or films. Good collectible and reference though.
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Andrew Warhola, better known as Andy Warhol, was an American artist and a central figure in the movement known as Pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, an avant-garde filmmaker, a record producer, an author, and a public figure known for his membership in wildly diverse social circles that included bohemian street...more
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