The Portland Eight Mile Gene Gregorits 9780692235492 Books
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”I wrote this novella in 2003 after living on the streets of Portland, Oregon with a convicted killer named Bobby and a prostitute named Beth. It is a triple-X rated rampage through urban bohemia and urban Hell, examining Portland's crack motels, dive bars, strip clubs, and soup kitchens. “ GENE GREGORITS Featuring the late ‘sick cartoonist’ John Callahan, Suicide Girls, Fist City, and much more than meets the eye.
The Portland Eight Mile Gene Gregorits 9780692235492 Books
I'm an avid reader and I particularly love fiction that pushes the boundaries. Dante, Joyce, Beckett, Burroughs, Baudelaire, Raymond Carver, all those guys. Gene Gregorits is my favorite living writer. I found out about him a couple of years ago and I buy all of his books because they are always a great read. Written well, never boring, existentially edgy. You can't go wrong buying his work. I consider Gregorits to be a huge talent I hope he puts out many more books.The Portland Eight Mile is similar in theme to some of his other works: narrator on a downward spiral in a locale where he lacks resources, lots of drinking and sex. It is also very different from his other books (such as the Dog Days books) in that the focus is not internal on the narrator's issues and struggles but is external and looks at the people around him. They are worth looking at, and Gregorits renders them fascinating: a suicide girl and a practiced hustler, to name two. Gregorits captures their essence and delivers a fascinating book by portraying them and showing the reader what they have to say. Meanwhile the character of the narrator serves a backbone to the story and is interesting in his own right without becoming the central focus. Really an excellent book and I recommend that you buy it along with the others Gregorits has written. Not of the squeamish or faint hearted, but nothing worthwhile ever is.
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The Portland Eight Mile Gene Gregorits 9780692235492 Books Reviews
Not many writers appear to be as well-traveled as Gene Gregorits. He has a certain way of adding a passionate, living, breathing element to even the dead metropolises of Detroit and Baltimore. In TP8M, we find Gene drunk again in my hometown of Portland, OR.
For a Portlander, this book provides an outside perspective into the city. You'll find yourself wishing for a fresh set of eyes to explore the city with. Gene's eyes are probably the closest you'll get, though.
If you've ever scrambled drunk through the streets of PDX, or if you're looking for an idea of what it's like, please pick up this book.
One of my favorite authors on this here planet. Like Gene Gregorits' other outstanding works "The Portland Eight Mile" delves into a societal underbelly that few would seek out and even fewer would manage to survive to tell the tale. Brutally honest to an often frightening degree, his work is his life and his stories are the scars he wears proudly. The best art is never easy or neatly wrapped nor should it be. Gregorits' books make up a spectacular if somewhat blood-spattered and messy journey. Buy them for someone you love (or even hate). Just buy them.
Wowzas. This little book is an adrenaline shot of sick, exhilarating, vicarious kicks. A broke and broken travelogue of sorts. Gene's "Eight Mile" technique--travel as threadbare, underfunded, overfueled tailspin into the heart of a given local darkness-- plays out across the scummy underbelly of Portland. This Portland is a very different place than the innocuous, twee, hyper-pc hipster burg so lamely mocked up in anemic pop-culture emanations like Portlandia. Here the cute local slogan "Keep Portland Weird" morphs into "Watch Portland writhe in overstimulated ecstatic pain, and be quick about it, cause Portland may not make it through the night." Meet psychotic sex workers, beat street folk, and confused bar patrons through the lens of Gene;s tape-recorder and typewriter. Step out of your safe little hip haunts. Don't avert your eyes on your hasty walk from the hip dive to the cute little car that will ferry you safely home. Linger round the corner where those shadowy figures spider cross the crack-dumpster gate. Ahem, enough street-preaching and carnival barking. The voice here is 100% Gregorits, but the attitude and sheer reckless excess remind me a bit of the classic Hunter Thompson "travel" pieces--Fear and Loathing, Kentucky Derby, etc...--minus the fancy magazine funding, and the ex-southern aristocrat thing Hunter had going for him, and lighter on the over-reaching generalized social commentary Hunter was prone to slip into. Truly entertaining, frantic, disturbing work.
I'm an avid reader and I particularly love fiction that pushes the boundaries. Dante, Joyce, Beckett, Burroughs, Baudelaire, Raymond Carver, all those guys. Gene Gregorits is my favorite living writer. I found out about him a couple of years ago and I buy all of his books because they are always a great read. Written well, never boring, existentially edgy. You can't go wrong buying his work. I consider Gregorits to be a huge talent I hope he puts out many more books.
The Portland Eight Mile is similar in theme to some of his other works narrator on a downward spiral in a locale where he lacks resources, lots of drinking and sex. It is also very different from his other books (such as the Dog Days books) in that the focus is not internal on the narrator's issues and struggles but is external and looks at the people around him. They are worth looking at, and Gregorits renders them fascinating a suicide girl and a practiced hustler, to name two. Gregorits captures their essence and delivers a fascinating book by portraying them and showing the reader what they have to say. Meanwhile the character of the narrator serves a backbone to the story and is interesting in his own right without becoming the central focus. Really an excellent book and I recommend that you buy it along with the others Gregorits has written. Not of the squeamish or faint hearted, but nothing worthwhile ever is.
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