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Eat, Pray, Roll

By: Mary H. K. Choi
Narrated by: Mary H. K. Choi
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It's the age-old 30-something's dilemma: If you did ecstasy in the '90s, does it mean you've done Molly? Dragging her raver ass out of retirement to revisit her teenaged party days, Mary H. K. Choi throws herself into the belly of the EDM beast to see if there's anything to this Molly business. And to find out if doing recreational drugs as a bored adult is the key to staying young or if this is the worst, most embarrassing and irresponsible idea ever.

Mary H. K. Choi has written for GQ, The New York Times, New York, Wired, and Glamour. She is the former editor of MTV Style and executive producer of the documentary House of Style: Music, Models and MTV. She has also written comic books for Marvel and Vertigo and hosts a podcast on jobs called Hey, Cool Job. It's available on iTunes.

©2015 Mary H. K. Choi (P)2015 Audible, Inc.
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I went into this short piece not knowing anything about it as part of my current short story kick and listening to all the Audible Included ones available. Being a memoir about ecstacy and having a big night while on mote grown up years it's not the kind of thing I would necessarily sought out, but I thoroughly enjoyed it and was reminded of my own experimentation when I was younger. There is a frank openness with which the author talks about themself and their experiences that is refreshing and invites you in to their life. The quality of writing and the performance of the author only add to this raw intimacy.

The number of puritanical and judgmental reviews I've seen have really blown my mind. The way many seem to conflate ecstacy and MDMA with heroin and crack, or have some wildly hypocritical perspective on 'drugs' as the bad things they don't like, unlike the pure and wholesome 'not-drugs' of alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, etc. is hilarious. Saying you can have a good time and explaining the experience of ecstacy is nothing like pushing crack or even advertising alcohol. Noone has to do or be around anything they are not comfortable with, but some of you have never questioned propaganda and conservative perspectives and it shows. For the record, I'm tee total these days other than a little mulled wine at Christmas, largely because alcohol doesn't agree with me and my chronic health, but I fully support safe experimentation and recreational use, as long as folx are taking precautions and keeping safe. This includes alcohol, despite it being so much more dangerous and destructive than club and festival drugs.

I've not been into non-fiction so much recently, especially with the last one I read on here going out of its way to be transphobic and judgemental, but this kind of honest snapshot is definitely an interesting window into someone else's life and experiences.

Frankly Talking About Getting Messy

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A strange little piece which felt it was more a page or so from an observational diary than a carefully thought through article for publication. Rather sad that he author (who also narrates) already envied her younger self: that shouldn't happen at least until she is really old.
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"I welcome synthetic curiosity."

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the point of this story: taking ecstasy is a rewarding experience, definitely something to do again.
this is not something i’m on board with. i didn’t like the story.
the performance was ok, but it cannot redeem the rest.

what’s the point?

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If you ever need a reminder of how vapid, Out of touch and useless journalists are then this book servers as a fantastic reminder. There is no content to this book, It's just the self absorbed ramblings of someone so out of touch with the real world you feel second hand embarrassment from it.

The performance however is great. Choi reads very well.

Sometimes you forget how useless Journalists are

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