- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Sceptre; New edition edition (4 Nov 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340748400
- ISBN-13: 978-0340748404
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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1,271,591 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #100 in Books > Biography > Theatre & Performance Art > Cabaret
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It's a fabulous story of course. New York clubkid extraordinaire Michael Alig batters another clubkid, Angel, injects him with Drano, saws him into chunks in the bath, and throws his body into the river. But being a clubkid, Alig then brags about his latest escapade to whoever will listen. To broadsheet journalists and documentary makers, it's a dream: a chance to poke into this most insular of cultures and to prove its manifold dangers with this macabre ending.
It's a fabulous story, but not one that pours easily into a fictional mould because it lacks tension, meaning or indeed motive--beyond that most banal of motives: the craving for drugs and money to buy drugs. St James senses this problem, and tries to counter it by spinning out the story, but we've already been told the gory details in the first few pages. What he does create is the most convincing account yet of club life, with its intricate hierarchies, exquisite etiquettes and total self- absorbedness. Despite his disarming claim that this is the running commentary of a babbling drug addict, St James is a totally poised and entertaining host to his specialist subject: his book a splendid social anthropology of one of New York's little-understood tribes. --Alan Stewart --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This story tells of the fabulous and bizarre through the tale of the "king of the club kids", Michael Alig. Flirting with fetishism and androgyny, the Club Kids created their own reality, a "surreality" without rules. But the charming freedom of the world soon mutated into something darker.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Riveting, shocking and amusing - with a touch of the bizarre,
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This review is from: Disco Bloodbath (Paperback)
The vivid memory of a sharply observed late night TV documentary made this book more than just an interesting oddity to me. Rather than just tell the story, it excelled in showing how the Club Kids, their 'antics', and the murder itself defied disbelief and reality as most of us know it - a unknown world within a real everyday one. As such, this book does much to bring amusing touches of humanity and personal insights to life; it shows how basic emotions penetrate all of us, even the Club Kids who seemed to be constantly striving to be above them. What I found most chilling had less to do with the detailed drug-related episodes, character deteriorations and even the murder itself, and more to do with the matter-of-fact style of narration that the author, a Club Kid, uses throughout. It rarely loses its grip on the imagination, despite the early revelation of the murder, nor a sense of the bizarre unreal reality that is so accurately captured. If the book hadn't included dates, I would have taken it to have been something out of the surreal memoires of Studio 54. An unusual must for your reading list.
5.0 out of 5 stars
wowzers!,
This review is from: Disco Bloodbath (Paperback)
I bought this book years ago after watching a documentary on C4 about the club kids murder. What an exciting book! It takes you to another world. James St James is a genius! reading this book made me feel alive and so involved in every happening. What they got up to is amazing. Some of it was sad but most was glitter sprinkled lunacy!. And no matter what Michael did you totally have a soft spot for him. I recommend this book to anyone who likes fun witty stories.
4.0 out of 5 stars
horror and humour,
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This review is from: Disco Bloodbath (Paperback)
Take a bit of the League of Gentlemen, Hammer House of Horror,a pinch of Carry on and then just try to imagine thats all this is true and you will start a journey of hedonism that went to far.You will cry when shounldn't and laugh when it should be forbidden. I was hooked from start to finish. Party on.
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