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Title: pretentious and annoying
Review: i took a look at this book b/c it seemed to get have great quotes from reviews, but i was quite disappointed. the book contains two plays, both for one actor. the title play is marginally better, and concerns an english boy who loves judy garland and lives in a dysfunctional family. he takes up work as a male prostitute and eventually escapes to america. the story itself is unoriginal, and the style tries unsuccessfully to be deep. images such as birds flying away are incredibly trite. likewise the second play smooch music is supposedly an exploration of love and sex, but in reality is an incoherent mess of attempts at surrealism and depth. also, the majority of it was written as songs, and as lyrics they simply read like bad high school poetry.
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