Dear Diary is one of my favorite books in recent memory. author lesley arfin is associated with the craziest of outsider magazines Vice (not entirely work safe usually). She had a column in it and was good friends with the founders, 3 really smart and smart-ass guys.
besides the fact that i had a very similar book idea a couple of years ago, ran it by my friends, who loved it, and then filed it in my "never gonna happen" file and forgot about it...i can't help but love this book. it's really well done. funny and honest are the two writing traits i most aspire to, and are perhaps the most important ones.
here are some of the best lines in the book:
"Coming down from meth is like a bad acid trip meets chemo meets watching your parents die in a car crash."
"Heroin was never like 'ten thousand orgasms' to me. It's more like the very few seconds after an orgasm. The gentle tide that drifts you out to sea and carries you off to sleep. It hits you hard and lasts for hours. It's the tide that hits you in the ocean of Sunday-morning back scratches. Try to imagine how it'd feel to be a melting candle or a poured drink. Imagine if you were a sweater and the boy you liked wore you all day long..."
"Love doesn't always 'save the day' or whatever. But I do think it might make the world go 'round."
more diary entries from her here.
i think lesley's writing is kind of one of my new obsessions.
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cafeconlesley.blogspot.com
whoever posted this comment, THANKS. i did not know she had a blog, but should have.
i wrote a review of lesley's book
dear diary
yeah, you're review is probably better than mine.
I'm glad you didn't take the review completely serious
oh well
Sometimes things look better when you look at them differently. Like here:maybe this book is not a masterpiece, but certainly it is worth a read or two even if you’re not really reading but only looking at your hands…i really don’t think Miranda July would mind.
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