Kandy
At first I didn't understand what the hell was going on with Kandy Kolored Tangerine-Metalflake Streamline Baby, because none of the chapters seemed to have anything to do with one another. I thought it was a story, but it is a collection of essays. The version that I got from the library is a gigantic book that also contains The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers all in one. The introductions for each book have been omitted. Since the other books are there I'll most likely read them while I have it, but the one I was after was KKTMSB.
I don't even know what I think about the book yet, but I keep on reading so I must not hate it. One thing I find kind of funny is that Wolfe seems to really go off on these tangents about bouffante hairdos, and tight pants on female asses. He has been kind of distracted from the main topic for several paragraphs by this subject in at least three of the essays so far, sometimes straight up repeating his point, only slightly reworded.
On the downside, he loves to kick around the term "spade" a little too loosely, which I noticed early on in TEKAAT.
I guess reading the actual KKTMSB essay would have had more impact if I hadn't already absobed the Ed "Big Daddy" Roth autobio a zillion years ago. Probably my fave essay of the book so far is the one about Phil Spector, who comes off like a total fucking unlikeable weirdo. Of course now I am interested to see how his murder trial turns out, which went to Jury 2 days ago.
Here is an Ed Roth classic for your eyeball pleasure.
I don't even know what I think about the book yet, but I keep on reading so I must not hate it. One thing I find kind of funny is that Wolfe seems to really go off on these tangents about bouffante hairdos, and tight pants on female asses. He has been kind of distracted from the main topic for several paragraphs by this subject in at least three of the essays so far, sometimes straight up repeating his point, only slightly reworded.
On the downside, he loves to kick around the term "spade" a little too loosely, which I noticed early on in TEKAAT.
I guess reading the actual KKTMSB essay would have had more impact if I hadn't already absobed the Ed "Big Daddy" Roth autobio a zillion years ago. Probably my fave essay of the book so far is the one about Phil Spector, who comes off like a total fucking unlikeable weirdo. Of course now I am interested to see how his murder trial turns out, which went to Jury 2 days ago.
Here is an Ed Roth classic for your eyeball pleasure.