The Losers Club: Complete Restored Edition!
by Richard Perez
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Author: Richard PerezEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-05-15
ISBN: 0971341559
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Ludlow Press
Book Reviews of The Losers Club: Complete Restored Edition!
Book Review: REVIEW? Is that a diplomatic way to ask for my OPINION?
Summary: 5 Stars
After thinking long and hard about what it means to actually review a book, music, art, anything that we simply offer our opinion on...it ails me to find that so many put forth such little effort in actually doing just that while keeping the reasons behind it in context.
How did this come to be?
I FIRMLY stand behind the First Ammendment, protecting our right to freedom of speech...
Such a powerful freedom to actually have. And so many use it in the most ficticious ways.
We are one of the only countries that truly has this right, and look at what we do with it?
We take the life's work of someone, someone that we don't even personally know, and we decide to publish our opinion on that creation, spewing it out into the cyberworld and beyond?
Is that what that Ammendment was all about? Hmph. I wonder.
Does that give us the right to examine, judge, and then openly discuss our judgements with the world? Honestly? Who are we to judge anyone about anything? Have we lived their lives, walked in their footsteps? Do we know what it's truly like to be anyone other than ourselves? And how many of us are strong enough to do that, and put our creative work out into a potential pool of hungry sharks just waiting to offer their bloody opinion on whatever they like, claiming it to save us OUR valuable time, efforts, and money.
For the haters, I think about what makes you hate with such force that you'd take time out of your little time here on this earth to breed negativity? To feel it's your right to someone else's creation of art, and extension of themselves really, to bash the hell out of it? Why? What drives that?
For the lovers, I wonder why you don't express such a beautiful emotion more? What holds you back from telling a person that they've been helpful, or they've been kind, or they've been honest with you and you really appreciate that?
Why do we tend more to complain than to compliment?
It's a debate for certain, nothing new there.
I don't come to Amazon to read about the authors personal life (unless THE AUTHOR) chooses to include that information about him or herself,
I don't come to Amazon to read about a debate someone has been having over whether or not they understood or could relate to the book. I'm plagued here by idle chatter going on among people who think it's their right to tell me whether or not I will or will not be moved by the authors creation.
The only person who can relate to or respond to that creation is ME. And in my own way.
I applaud those strong enough to take a moment out of their life to actually THINK about what they are doing, writing, saying, implying, portraying...spreading overall with their energy before they actually DO it.
In my opinion, those people really understand what it's like to put your heart and soul into something, not just think about it, but actually do it. That's the difficult part that is so easy for onlookers to judge, but to actually take action by believing in ourselves to carry out our goals, see them to full fruition...
Putting one's money where one's mouth is? Is that the saying?
Styles of writing? Please, there is no correct style or format of writing, only what's been spoon fed to us through the years. Again, simply the opinion of another human being.
I'll take risk, depth, emotion, rawness, realness, over whatever "style" is supposed to be in the minds of others any day.
And my opinion on the book? I was involved with each character as they came onto the scene. I've been to New York during the times the author speaks of...he nailed every one of them. I loved that i felt alive in this book, part of it somehow. I loved that it made me fall in love with Martin. I could feel his pain, the lonely trail that seemed to follow him around like a dark shadow. I've been there emotionally and could utterly relate. The main thing I loved about Martin was that he never judged. Well, with the exception of himself. He may have had moments of questioning, but that didn't stop him from shying away, or backing down because the women he met on the site were less than perfect. The women Martin had adventures with were real. Inspiring in many ways actually. Each woman, not just Nikki, had the guts to reveal their true identity right off the bat. There weren't any smoke screens with these sirens, and I really dug that. I loved the way I felt like I was in the cab ride with Martin and Nikki. That languid, sexy, heightened feeling you get when you are around someone you're attracted to. Those chemicals that drive us to want to think about them, want to be near them, want to touch them, be intimate with them...share in those magical moments of bliss that you feel when you touch that persons lips, feel the heat of their breath next to yours...but then having that grow into carnal desire. Be entrenched inside of them, mentally, physically, spiritually...to dizzying heights, holding your breath in for dear life every time your next to them because you are worrying that it's so great it's going to end kind of feeling...
butterflies all over your body kind of feeling...
I didn't choose "The Loser's Club" to read some pipe dream that exists in stock and fantasy world, I CHOSE it because I thought it had character, and strength, and something I could relate to. Life.
The thing I truly loved most about this book is that regardless of each line, I was captured by the lives of the characters, and the worlds in which they lived. Ficticiously, and factually.
That was the fun part, I got to decide!
Right on Perez, I'm chomping at the bit to sink my teeth into those next characters that you're creating, and the adventures they find themselves in. I invision badass women, hot sex scenes and power to those of us that don't fall into the norm.
YES! It's about time someone came along and crushed deceitful little walls like that down again!
By the way, I wrote this review because I chose to, not because someone asked me to, or paid me.
KJV
Summary of The Losers Club: Complete Restored Edition!
Set in downtown New York City, THE LOSERS' CLUB tells the story of Martin Sierra, an unlucky writer addicted to the personals. His journey brings us into the East Village, pre-9/11--and in contact with Nikki, his dream woman, who remains unattainable romantically yet becomes his friend and confidant during his illuminating misadventures. A romantic comedy and coming-of-age story.
"Every generation must describe for itself what it means to be a young writer or artist struggling with anonymity and a mountain of rejection slips in a city like New York. Richard Perez's THE LOSERS' CLUB tracks the poet Martin Sierra's melancholy and yet somehow humorous and hopeful life with an acid, yet not unsympathetic, pen. Perez has written a sharp, quick-paced satire of the personal ads subculture and the generally doomed semi-relationships it leads to, the bizarre and manic club life, where slam-dancing and other dangerous sports fail to mask the chronic--one might say terminal--loneliness of the participants. I especially like how the kaleidoscopic whirl of people and objects energizes the author and delights the reader with an almost photographic sense of time and place."
--Robert Siegel, author: Best-selling author of THE WHALESONG TRILOGY
"Richard Perez's THE LOSERS' CLUB moves fast without blurring, and documents New York City in all its self-invented variety: kitsch/retro bars and cafes, goth vampires, dyke rock bands, desperately clever personal ads, the endless cruise for a parking space, and loneliness so relentless its victims wind up feeling stillborn. In its quicksilver way, Perez's novel manages to be cheerful, bleak, and edgy all at once."
--John Vernon, author: A BOOK OF REASONS, PETER DOYLE
"THE LOSERS' CLUB evokes a real and genuine sense of place--the world of the East Village--and people--single, young and desperate--written with zest, energy and enthusiasm."
--Tama Janowitz, author: SLAVES OF NEW YORK
"Funny and endearing--and wisely not so hip as to avoid a good grab for your heart."
--Marcie Hershman, author: SAFE IN AMERICA, TALES OF THE MASTER RACE
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