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Eve's Hollywood Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Eve Babitz (Author), Mia Barron (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)
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Journalist, party girl, bookworm, artist, muse: By the time she'd hit 30, Eve Babitz had played all of these roles. She was immortalized as the nude beauty facing down Duchamp and as one of Ed Ruscha's Five 1965 Girlfriends, and Babitz's first book showed her to be a razor-sharp writer with tales of her own.

Eve's Hollywood is an album of vivid snapshots of Southern California's haute bohemians, of outrageously beautiful high school ingenues and enviably tattooed Chicanas, of rock stars sleeping it off at the Chateau Marmont. And though Babitz's prose might appear careening, she's in control as she takes us on a ride through an LA of perpetual delight, from a joint serving the perfect taquito to the corner of La Brea and Sunset, where we make eye contact with a roller-skating hooker, to the Watts Towers. This "daughter of the wasteland" is here to show us that her city is no wasteland at all but a glowing landscape of swaying fruit trees and blooming bougainvillea, buffeted by earthquakes and the Santa Ana winds - and every bit as seductive as she is.

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  1. Listening Length
    8 hours and 21 minutes
  2. Author
    Eve Babitz
  3. Narrator
    Mia Barron
  4. Audible release date
    March 28 2016
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Recorded Books
  7. ASIN
    B071ZPJ5QY
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Listening Length 8 hours and 21 minutes
Author Eve Babitz
Narrator Mia Barron
Audible.ca Release Date March 28 2016
Publisher Recorded Books
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B071ZPJ5QY
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  • Bolshevik Penpal
    5.0 out of 5 stars Surprising
    Reviewed in Canada on December 20, 2024
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    She can write! Should be just trashy but isn't. Fascinating, confident, slyly sad from a distance but also good fun.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Eve's Hollywood
    Reviewed in Canada on March 22, 2019
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    Delivered super fast. Great read.
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  • shradke
    2.0 out of 5 stars Pretentious and self-indulgent
    Reviewed in Canada on June 28, 2022
    The Steve Martin quote says it all; this is long form experiment in name-dropping and not much else.
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  • Daniel Bergner
    5.0 out of 5 stars Riesenentdeckung!
    Reviewed in Germany on September 7, 2020
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    Wer dieses Buch oder gar diese Frau nicht kennt, kann sich freuen. Eine seltene Entdeckung erwartet denjenigen.
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  • Patrick Mc Coy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Homage to L.A.
    Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2018
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    New York Review Classics is known for keeping underground classics in print and is behind the recent republication of Eve Babitz's first two books: Eve's Hollywood and Slow Days, Fast Company:The World, The Flesh and L.A. I thought these books would be good preparation/background for an upcoming trip to Southern California. So I started with Eve's Hollywood (1974), which is something akin to a memoir, but shrouded in fiction. I believe some names and incidents were change dot protect the innocent. Babitz comes from a talented family and is unabashedly proud of L.A. and resents the depictions from the like s of Joan Didion and Nathanael West who see it as a sort of cultural wasteland. Her father was a violinist who worked on movie scores for Fox and her mother was an artist. Stravinsky was her godfather and knew everyone from Jim Morrison to members of the Manson Family. Much of this is about her formative years at Hollywood High, an abortive stint in New York, her impressions and aspirations about life in California in the 60s and 70s. There is a lot of name dropping and several memorable observations throughout the book. She had this to say about cocaine:

    There are only three thing sot say about cocaine. One, there is no such thing as enough. Two, it will never be as good as the first time. Three, those first two facts constitute a tragedy of expense in ways that can't be experienced unless you've had cocaine.

    Here's her defense of L.A.:

    It takes a certain kind of innocence to like L.A., anyway. It requires a certain plain happiness inside to be happy in L.A., to choose it and be happy here.

    It is a smart, entertaining, profound, inspiring, and sometimes funny. I particularity liked the section called "The Landmark" in which she contemplates Janis Joplin's O.D. in which she suggests instead of shooting up in her hotel room she should have gone out for taquitos-one of life's great pleasures (something that I can appreciate as an ex-pat, it is extremely difficult to find good Mexican food outside of North America). She even includes a hand drawn map to show readers how to get to her favorite stand on Olvera Street.
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  • 鶹72
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in India on March 4, 2017
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    Sassy, enjoyable read.
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  • GC
    1.0 out of 5 stars Boring
    Reviewed in Italy on February 25, 2023
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    Irrelevant stories of irrilevant people.
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  • T. P. Cross
    5.0 out of 5 stars Eve's Hollywood: a gem that deserves to be rediscovered
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 11, 2018
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    This book is sort of autobiographical but it reads like a combination of Bridget Jones Diary, written by a strange combination of Hunter S. Thompson and Dashiell Hammett. It's about growing up in L.A. in the 50s/60s.

    It's one of the best books I've ever read.

    There I said it.

    I had never heard of it until it came up in an episode of the Backlisted podcast, which - as an aside - I recommend if you enjoy reading. Although prepare to find yourself spending money each week.

    It well-written throughout but occasionally it smacks you around the head with something so brilliant, beautiful or funny that you want to underline it or save it so you can pretend you said it. It's a series of short stories really, rather than a novel but that shouldn't stop you reading it. I can see myself re-reading this again and again. And lending it to friends. It's already high on my recommendations list.

    Babitz is, to quote the blurb on the back of the book, 'Journalist, party girl, bookworm, artist, muse...' There's a picture out there of her, naked, playing Duchamp at chess. This is a woman who has seen things and can tell you about those things in a way that sparkles like a glass of champagne caught in the sunlight.

    Read it. It's marvellous.
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