Unless he decides to do something about it, Robert Plunket may not ever write another book. He published two: this and 'My Search for Warren Harding' (which I've just found through Amazon 3rd-party selling). He hasn't had a new book out in years.

'Love Junkie' is a quick and quick-witted read. This is my second time with it. Not so much a novel as stand-up, it has a deliciously superficial and heterosexual female narrator taking us on a no-holds-barred tour of the extremely superficial side of gay life in NYC, just as AIDS was approaching.

It takes a few (equally hilarious) chapters before bored social climber Mimi Smithers enters the gay underbelly but, once she does, the book comes off a sort of antidote to Larry Kramer's 'Faggots' (1978). One can sense that Plunket also has a marked attitude about the navel-gazing lifestyle his protagonist reports on in such sharp detail - but what really puts the work over is the writing. Laid-out by an objective outsider who only slowly starts to 'get it', the story has hidden landmines of hilarity generously planted on every page. We follow along as Mimi goes from perplexed 'innocent' to fast-learner to somewhat-wise woman of experience; she has something very pointed to say about everything - and she tends to be right on the money.

Naturally, 'LJ' is only skewering one section of gay society. Reading it is listening to a famous celebrity being 'roasted' - only a roast tends to consist of baseless, wild exaggeration; 'LJ' would be much less funny if it weren't so true.

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I only read this because Sara Nelson raves about it in her book”So Many Books, So Little Time” ... saying how she found it so LOL funny.

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I love Robert Plunkett so much. This was awesome. 1 Olivia13 1 follower

best ending ever1 Alyssa Gunn61

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owe this a full review. funnier and sadder than warren harding imo. descrip of proust as "a frenchman who accidentally smelled a cracker" was lmao1 Timothy Juhl239 13

Unread, unheard of by most, an author who seems to have vanished from promise, but if you can get your hands on 'Love Junkie', you'll wonder why this book has been relegated to the back of the stacks.

Plunkett's witty and desperate tale of a middle-aged housewife who falls in love with a young pornstar and gives up her life, all for lust, is a simple gem. This is a quick read, nothing that will tax your literary muscle, but you'll wish Plunkett had more books out there.

Back in the 90s, Madonna had optioned this novel for a movie. Somewhere, some Hollywood type should be considering this book again, with Toni Collette. What dreams may come?the-porn-past1 Merridith6

This book is filled with raunch and is TOTALLY HILARIOUS. I laugh out loud reading it--even now, and I've read it at least 30 times. My hardcover version is falling apart but I'll keep taping it together and will keep re-reading it.1 Dan463 5

It's the early '80s, and matronly Mimi, vaguely dissatisfied with life as a Bronxville social climber, stumbles into, of all things, the gay New York party scene at its pre-AIDS peak. I spent the first 50 pages being annoyed at Plunket for making her a one-note joke about cluelessness, but by the halfway point she was more fleshed out, and surrounded by a nicely varied cast of waspish flaneurs, porn stars and fat, middle-aged businessmen with secret lives. I thought I knew where the story was going but was only partly right.

This is easily as good as Plunket's other novel, "My Search for Warren Harding," and has loads of local color, with settings including various parts of Manhattan, including the pre-gentrification Meatpacking District, and Fire Island. (I assume the background details are authentic, but I only moved to the outskirts of the Meatpacking District during its '90s ghost-town phase, so who knows?) I hope Plunket gets around to producing another book. He's too good to be available only in Sarasota Magazine. Martin500 4

This was a funny read and quite a satire on urban gay & sex mores. It read Patrick Dennis or early Paul Rudnick and told quite a funny but dated story- circa 1981 about the adventures of a suburban woman among a list gays and pornographers,, Sue Miers125 3

A wild ride with some burst out laughs. Very different! Charity121 1 follower

So funny! Leah14

Really enjoyed the Fire Island hike
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