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I received this book as part of a Goodreads Giveaway. Sometimes I Think About It tackles some tough subjects that show all the myriad ways of being human. There is beauty to be found as well as ugliness. Joy as well as sorrow. The only question I would ask someone before recommending this book is "Are you ready to challenge your sense of right and wrong, your sense of what is human?" For those who are brave enough to take the plunge into this tome, it is definitely worth it.
Love love love the first third of this book. It fell apart a little for me in the second third, but managed to scrape my interest together again in the last third. I am excited to read more by this author.
I am a big fan of Stephen Elliott’s writing, especially his essays. I was a obsessive follower of his literary website the Rumpus, and still miss his daily email blast. This collection of personal essays was fantastic.
one of these stars is just because I loved and miss his daily Rumpus letters.
i had never heard of stephen elliott until this book came through the bookstore a few weeks ago. there's a really poignant quote at the beginning that struck me - 'after assembling them, i went through, pulling out redundancies. sometimes the echoes were interesting and i let them remain. sometimes i didn't feel that an essay represented me anymore but decided to keep it anyway. that's the problem with writing things down; we change, the person who wrote is no longer there.' that was enough for
A mix of personal and cultural essays. I will always have a soft spot for his writing.
Am unusual and a little bit strange, but well written collection of essays, also rather honest and stark in its presentation. I was hooked with the first one in the book.
A strong collection of essays, both personal and journalistic, often heart-wrenching and brutally honest. Whether writing about his depression, cross-dressing, and masochism, or the devastation of a father losing his family to a mudslide, to the situation in Palestine, Elliott never flinches, telling these important stories in a raw, factual style that gets to the heart. Highly recommended.
Sometimes I Think About It by Stephen Elliott is a collection of personal essays and literary journalism. Largely chronically his adolescent homelessness, childhood abuse, drug and alcohol addiction, and fetishes, Elliott's work is not for those who shy away from the dark spaces or the "different". His literary journalism addresses various themes and speaks to a larger social commentary. Much of his work feels like a meditation on losing and being lost; a James Franco film on paper (actually, on...
It is hard to know what to say, exactly, about this book. Whether to try and grapple with some of the huge issues that he addresses; whether to use some of his stylistic choices. All of these are flightily possible, somehow, here. The honest and unadorned answer is that the set of essays is beautifully done - and that beauty always is both imperfect and with its pockmarks. Ranging over Israel/Palestine, sex work, child abuse, prisons & lack of justice in the US, mudslides. The book touches on su...
This one's a bit of a mixed bag. The personal essays of the first section are pretty great pieces of honest writing. The broader, more journalistic pieces of the second section are hit or miss. And the pop culture-centric essays of the last part are interesting, but pretty breezy. I definitely recommend the first section of this book; the other two -- take them as you will.
