I Love Dick (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents) Paperback – 15 Aug. 2006

I enjoyed reading this (although I probably wouldn't read it again). i think it's such a strange and bizarre concept but for some reason I could totally relate to it. i love the style it's written in, even if the characters came across as quite pretentious at times I really liked them all. i've read a lot of bad reviews about it but i thought it was really original & clever. i'm watching the series on prime which isn't as great - if you're planning on watching i'd read it first. all the concepts included are deeply explored, nothing is skimmed over & everything is well explained. can't think of any faults !

A stimulating and thought provoking journey into the psychology of love and a woman's role in love, life and relationships.

Brilliant book which deconstructs the ideas of relationships as we know them. It is very intense and heavy though so takes a long time to read as you can only do a chapter at a time.

This had great reviews. Maybe if I had read to the end I would think it was good too. But it was self-indulgent pompous writing as far as I made it. None of the characters were remotely likeable and I felt no empathy for them either. It reminded me of some of the more 'serious' American arthouse movies of the late 1960s and early 70s where everybody acclaimed them great in typical emperor's new clothes fashion so they didn't have to admit they were bored rigid, felt the movie was pointless but didn't want to admit that they couldn't see the great insights that all others claimed they could see. This book is simply the literary equivalent of one of those movies.

Great concept but Mensa membership probably advisable.

I really want to like this book but I don't understand it and therefore I don't like it. I picked it up as it was celebrated as a great feminist work but I can't even get through it. It's one of those plot-less art-come-essay type books that you can only hope to get anything out of if you understand all the references. Which I don't. Perhaps I am too uneducated and uncultured but the constant references to works I have barely heard of let alone read or seen let's me know this is not for me. If you have moved in the same intelligentsia-esque circles as the author you may have better luck than me. I still haven't finished it because it's such a slog and the only reason I'm giving it 2 stars is in the hopes that it is worth reading to somebody and that it hasn't been so highly praised because the reviewers didn't want to admit they didn't get it either.

Right from the start, this book has been a whirlwind of raw, unpretty, nondigestable emotion. It was not meant to be pretty, or liked, or to pander; it simply is, without care of opinion or what it “should” be, and that is breathtaking to me. It made me rethink things about myself and my relationships, and my ideas of relationships as I read it, and that was lovely, and hard.

Chris Kraus is my new hero. I was so blown away by I Love Dick that I read all her other stuff straight after, and it's all fantastic. If you are interested in a book with a totally honest, original, arty, droll, contemporary voice, you have to read this. But don't go looking for plot; there is one, but it's of secondary importance. Just amazing.