Just Kids

I‘be been in a reading slump, and i was pulled out of that after just the first pages of this book. This is significant - after having suffered from some kind of reading ADD for some time i somehow could read this book for hours without effort. To have discovered Patti Smith‘s world, her mind and her absolute, unpretentious mastery of prose shifted a part of me into a position that I could now appreciate and identify as, without shame. This book really changed something in me immensely. What a world, and what a life! To think this was only a part of hers in relation to Robert Mapplethorpe. For a period of time I felt as if I lived through their world. I‘m eager to read more of her work, how i hope she will continue to write, for as long as we have her around.