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    <body><![CDATA[Anyone who was into the rave scene, or was a club kid in the early 90s needs to read this book. It's everything that the time was about. Drugs, partying, music, DJs and more.<br/><br/>St. James writes about death in a way that is both disturbing and at times funny. It's weird to say that a book ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9171914">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[After finishing this novel about the drug fueled world of the club kids that James St. James describes with great detail I almost felt like I'd overdosed on his writing. A little past the half way mark his constant descriptions of their hedonistic world and the ever-changing group of so-called frien...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81284862">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> <strong>&lt;CENTER&gt;Murder Was Never So Much Fun!</strong> <p><br/> When Disco Bloodbath was first published, it created a storm of controversy for its startlingly vivid, strikingly fresh, and outrageously funny depiction of the hedonistic world of the New York City club kids, for whom nothing was too outré -- including murder. Nominated for the Edgar Award for best true-crime book of the year, it also marked the debut of an audaciously talented writer, James St. James, who himself had been a club kid and close friend and confidant of Michael Alig, the young man convicted of killing the drug dealer known as Angel. <p> Now the book has been brought to the screen as <em>Party Monster,</em> with Macaulay Culkin playing killer Michael Alig and Seth Green as author/celebutante James St. James.</p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Who knew Club kids, that did nothing for a living but party and shoot up, were sooo <strong>literate</strong> and <strong>articulate</strong>, JUST DAMN INTELLIGENT!<br/><br/>There wasn't a day that went by without me reading this book. It will haunt me for years to come. Before I started reading this, I was struggle with the ques...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45327350">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Party Monster<br/>James St. James<br/><br/>	This book was based off a true story. So I believe the authors purpose, was to get the story out. Maybe, the purpose was to show what drugs and bad people can do to you. You can be one person at one minute and change to a completely different person ano...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36616286">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It seems like a vacuous read but I really enjoyed James St. James' drag queen-style black humor and the chance to relive my past a little bit. I now work with people who've been doing hard drugs for decades and I sometimes wonder where I fall in the spectrum of people who have been touched by that l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17787564">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an interesting read.  It's the (true) story of Michael Alig, who was a club kid in NYC in the 90's.  He ended up killing another drug dealer.  The book is written by James St. James (who you may recognize from America's Next Top Model) who was also part of Alig's scene.  St. James writes mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54109626">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read &quot;Disco Bloodbath&quot; when a friend gave it to me because he got too upset to finish it.  I thought it was pretty good - it's a fascinating case from a unique place and time - the murder of drug dealer Michael Alig in Peter Gatien's insane club scene in 1980s New York.  St. James can ac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4610933">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What I have to say first about this book (and thus, one of my reasons for giving it the low rating that I did), is that James St. James is an excellent writer in the whole &quot;stream of consciousness&quot; section of my personal library...but I am much happier with linear novels with pivotal point...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23617854">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I watched the movie before reading the book, which was great because then I had Seth Green's voice in my head the whole time I was reading. This book (and movie) was so funny that I was laughing out loud in the airport while reading.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[About the NYC clubkids from the eyes of James St. James. Recapping the killing of drug dealer Angel by James' best friend Michael Alig. This has since been turned into a movie starring Macaulay Culkin and Seth Green. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I know that true crime is not supposed to make you laugh but this book was really funny....After I finished the book I watched the movie and was not impressed but the documentary on this case was awesome...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[deliciously disturbing.  I would like to get a hold of the original book to see if there were any differences... but $300 for a book is just not going to happen with this chickie...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ Muuuuuuch better than the funny, but not intentionaly so &quot;film&quot;!!! Read it! James St. James is the best kind of queen, bitchy but in a relevant and seriously entertaining way. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Its been awhile since I read it, but it was interesting.  Its a very easy read and it definitely proves that truth is <em>much stranger than fiction<em></em></em>]]></body>
    
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