My baby loves me My baby needs me And I know I ain't going nowhere I was knee high to a chicken And that love bug bit me I had the fever with each passing year Oh, even if the mountain tumbles If this whole world crumbles By her side I'll still be standing there 'Cause I was made to love her I was made to live for her, yeah hey hey hey Ah, I was made to love her Built my world all around her Hey, hey, hey Oo baby, I was made to please her You know Stevie ain't gonna leave her, no Hey, hey, hey Edit Lyrics Edit Wiki Add Video.
Add your thoughts 4 Comments. No Replies Log in to reply. There was an error. General Comment Real sweet! General Comment I just heard this again today. The passion in Stevie's voice when he's delivering the lines is incredible. You really get the sense he's thinking of his first true love as he singing this song.
And the lyrics are something anyone who has truly been in love can relate to. My favorite all time Stevie song. Log in now to add this track to your mixtape! View all 10 comments. Mar 13, Adrienne rated it it was amazing. No one makes me more uncomfortable to be a participant in human sexuality than Alissa Nutting, and I mean that as an enormous compliment.
I doubt it's even possible for her to write something boring, and god knows this book never is. It is a delight. Jul 24, Paquita Maria Sanchez rated it it was amazing Shelves: Jul 10, Kyle Muntz rated it it was ok. I had a bad feeling about this ever since I first read the synopsis--that there was the possibility for a lot of interesting strangeness which Nutting delivers but that the idea also just seems a bit cartoony and maybe even dumb. This book is funny and sharp, but I got a sense of something just sort of thin and not working from the first page; for a long time I was hoping it would go away, but it only got worse.
There are some really interesting ideas here, but the whole just didn't work for m I had a bad feeling about this ever since I first read the synopsis--that there was the possibility for a lot of interesting strangeness which Nutting delivers but that the idea also just seems a bit cartoony and maybe even dumb. There are some really interesting ideas here, but the whole just didn't work for me. Jul 28, Bill rated it it was ok. As the absurdity continued chapter after chapter after chapter, I wondered aloud if some semblance of reality would make an appearance. My brief encounter with Made for Love was unrelentingly maddening and interminably frustrating.
What was the point? Buried somewhere in this crazy insane piece of work is social commentary I think! Laced with satire, sarcasm, wit and a few pinches of irony and mockery throw 1. Laced with satire, sarcasm, wit and a few pinches of irony and mockery thrown in for good measure, I could never quite fit all the pieces together into a coherent and intelligible moral to the story. Intended and unabashed deadpan humor?
Nutting expertly challenged our assumptions about child sexual predation in her literary debut Tampa , successfully forcing the reader to ponder some fundamental societal beliefs. The sex was graphic. The point well communicated.
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It feels like Made for Love attempted a similar exploration of some of our core beliefs and expectations but it never quite brought home the point for me. Sex plays an important role in this book too. The story opens with sex doll relationships, explores abstention from sex, casual and occasional sex and even introduces the reader to dolphin sex fetishism think of all the crude jokes and coarse innuendoes about a man and the blowhole!
A company named Gogol a nod to the ubiquity of Google? But the point of Made for Love was lost on me, the message hidden under an Everest of absurdity. Maybe the absurdity of modern life is the point. If not for the occasional chuckle, this was a one-star read for me Good writing; unknown destination.
Many folks adored this book. It is a quick and easy read … experience it for yourself. This novel is strange and entertaining, to be sure. She leaves him when she becomes afraid he has plans to put a computer chip in her head to be able to monitor her thoughts. Hazel has nowhere to go and ends up with her father and his new sex doll. Meanwhile, a man named Jasper is only sexually at 3 to 4 stars, I'm completely undecided I picked up this one because of a nice blurb from Roxane Gay as I'll basically read anything that she recommends. Meanwhile, a man named Jasper is only sexually attracted to dolphins And I'll leave the synopsis right there.
Nutting is a compelling writer and this book is a literary beach read dealing with love and technology. It's interesting, if at times over the top.
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Jul 17, Leesa rated it it was amazing. And legit made me LOL in some spots. Alissa Nutting is just such a good writer I want to read everything she writes. And so much of this was super-creative wow what in the world is even happeningggg. Sep 25, Justin Tate rated it really liked it. My first Alissa Nutting read, but I'll be back for more! The first chapter showcases some of the best writing I've ever seen. Hilarious, character-driven, perceptive social commentary.
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The second chapter was even better. The plot turned out to be less gripping than the first few chapters suggested, but it provided a superb context for Nutting to incorporate her hilarious commentary on technology of today and how it might look in the future. This is a farce at its finest, for t My first Alissa Nutting read, but I'll be back for more! This is a farce at its finest, for the most part, but I will be honest that I became un-hooked part way through due to a stagnant storyline.
By the end, the conflict remains the same and the situations become a little too ridiculous to fathom. As long as you can appreciate brilliant writing, you'll love this book. If you need a strong storyline you might skip it. Aug 21, Jill rated it it was amazing Shelves: Made for Love is the perfect book for Americans in AD: Just when you've decided it's okay to laugh, at least a little bit, the situation turns and you're stabbed through the middle with utter fear and sadness.
Nutting writes with such assured confidence about such extraordinarily surreal topics—just FYI, there's an attempted dolphin rape in the book, which gives that rosy airbrushed cover a different appeal, non Made for Love is the perfect book for Americans in AD: Nutting writes with such assured confidence about such extraordinarily surreal topics—just FYI, there's an attempted dolphin rape in the book, which gives that rosy airbrushed cover a different appeal, non? I trust Nutting to write anything and everything after Made for Love seeing how she transformed what in most circumstances would be the harebrained hallucinations of an addled addict into a compelling, poignant, and comprehensible narrative.
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Beyond the tone, the story itself is part and parcel of this era. The evil genius CEO of a tech company whose real-life inspiration Nutting barely tries to mask in the book, it's called Gogol marries Hazel, a down-on-her-luck, female Joe Schmo. When he tries to install a mind-reading chip in her brain as the next stage of his technology takeover, she demurs and escapes to live with her dad and his sex doll in a retirement trailer park.
Parallel to Hazel's story, we have Jasper, a lothario con artist whose seduction strategy can be described as "bone and loan": Their stories are separate until Act III when they overlap for the booming finale and make us wonder about 21st century greed, the social dislocation caused by technology, and prospects for love in all of its forms during the age of robotics and Instagram. What's astonishing about Nutting's authorial talents is how she creates empathetic characters whose concerns feel real while all of the other elements of the story combine to wreak a surrealist storm.
The reason this book works is that even though the majority of the plot takes place up in the stratosphere, far removed from anything resembling daily reality, the characters are tethered—admittedly, sometimes only by flimsy strings of dental floss—to Earth. The characters do wild things, but their reasons for doing so are reasonable and recognizable. In tradition with her first novel Tampa , Nutting plays with gender types to create a fascinating protagonist. Hazel is a female version of the stoner you might encounter in a Seth Rogen movie.
I adored Made for Love but will not be recommending it to my reader friends as I usually do.
The dark, absurdist humor coupled with the zany plot will leave many people claiming "I don't get it". But if you are intrigued by the possibility of dolphin kidnapping, the dislocation of an elbow inside the mouth of a sex doll, and nihilistic diatribes about roadkill, I suggest that you try to "get it", even if like me, you don't manage to "get" all of it.
Dec 16, Emilie rated it really liked it. Mar 22, Christopher rated it it was amazing Shelves: I suspect I'll be thinking about this book for a long time. Read this one cold. That's my best advice. Jan 14, Kimberly rated it it was amazing Shelves: This book is weird AF, in the best way possible! Hazel is both hilarious and disarming, and will be a little too relatable for many readers. As always, Alissa Nutting makes the most poignant observations of our current culture--obsessed with sex, technology, love, wealth, and praise.
Somehow she blends everything perfectly, so that the more fantastical elements are true to life and not unnecessarily strange or pretentious. With a memorable main character and side characters that are equally as i This book is weird AF, in the best way possible! Thanks to the publisher for providing an ARC.
Jul 15, xTx xTx rated it it was amazing Shelves: Now I want to have sex with both dolphins and dolls. Dec 11, Danger rated it really liked it. This absurdist techno-comedy is really a lot less about the slapstick and silly situations it presents and a lot more about being human than it would initially let on. It might be easy to get lost in the WTF-ery, as we spend 40 pages with the main character while her forearm is stuck in her elderly father's sex doll's mouth for example.
So while the pacing and plotting are sometimes a little This absurdist techno-comedy is really a lot less about the slapstick and silly situations it presents and a lot more about being human than it would initially let on. So while the pacing and plotting are sometimes a little wonky compared to a traditional story, at least it was effortless to connect with Hazel and Jasper and take the emotionally journey in, out, and around all the gross and uncomfortable edges of love and connection.
This was my type story, for sure. Aug 18, Jaclyn Crupi rated it really liked it. Alissa Nutting is exactly my kind of weird and this is packed with crazy goodness.
I don't want to describe the plot because it will sound mental it is mental. Nutting captures our search for human connection in an age of loneliness and yes she might use lifelike sex dolls, dolphin love, brain chips and a senior-citizen trailer park to do that but I'm all about it.
While this is what I have come to expect from Nutting, I tend to enjoy the social criticism found in her books. In her stunning debut novel Tampa, we follow Celeste Price, a young beautiful middle grade teacher who is a hebephile. Which allows for an interesting take on the nature of a sexual predator, often not associated with female sexuality. This does allow Nutting to explore the schoolboy fantasy of an older woman teaching them the ways of the flesh, whether it be a Mrs Robinson type character, a babysitter or in this case a teacher.
The sexual desire of a boy with their budding sexuality; to be with an experienced, already developed older woman. Tampa looks at how developing boys are unable to separate their emotions from the sexual act and this ultimately leads to them getting hurt not, to mention the emotional and psychological damage it will do to them for years to come. However, you could also look at it as a novel of a woman unhappy in her marriage. From the outside it looks like they are the perfect couple, he is rich, hardworking and determined but she is truly unhappy, despite what people see. Is that because of her singular sexual obsession for fourteen year old boys or is it far more?
When Tampa was being published, Alissa Nutting was in the midst of getting a divorce. While Tampa explores someone unhappy in marriage, her new novel Made for Love is the next step, someone trying to escape a bad marriage. This novel follows Hazel who has just moved back in with her father and his new girlfriend Diane truth is, Diane is a lifelike sex doll. She has run out of her marriage with Byron Gogol, the tech mogul and founder of Gogol Industries. Hazel is willing to give up the high life to just be free, but is she ever truly free? Hazel on the other hand will not have the same level of access, he is a CEO and needs to protect his company.
I often look for the autobiographical elements in a book, I find it gives me a deeper understanding to both the novel and the author. This is why I often like to read a biography on some of my favourite authors. Following up with a book similar to Made for Love, reveals even more. It suggests that there was more than just an unhappy marriage.
While there are plenty of novels about women living in a controlling relationship, I think Made for Love was the first one that ever made me feel the anxiety of trying to escape. In an age of social media and technology, it has increasingly become easier to track and monitor someone.
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Privacy is becoming a distant memory and for Hazel, even her thoughts are not safe. Made for Love reminds me of Black Mirror in the way it explores technology in relationships and the disturbing reality of what it would be like to try to escape and abusive one. The way people value wealth and status over the emotional wellbeing. This is a biting satire and is what I have come to expect from Alissa Nutting, I eagerly await her next book. This review originally appeared in The Literati: Apr 18, Ashley marked it as to-read Shelves: This book sounds absolutely insane and I have to read it.
Those who take themselves and their books super seriously, be warned However, if you are a fan of bizarre books, appreciate dark humor, and can see past super weird stuff to appreciate the profound lessons about humanity underneath, you're going to want to read Made for Love by Alissa Nutting. The premise of this book alone is completely outlandish, and everything just gets kookier as the story progresses.
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Made for Love follows the stories of two dysfunctional Those who take themselves and their books super seriously, be warned Made for Love follows the stories of two dysfunctional characters--Hazel and Jasper. Hazel has moved in with her father after leaving her husband Byron, the CEO of the most powerful technology company in the world, Gogol. The reader learns from the beginning that Byron and Hazel's marriage was far from conventional from the beginning, filled with an overwhelming sense of coldness and reliance on Gogol's technology. When Byron began taking steps to implant a computer chip in Hazel's brain to connect her every thought and action directly to his own mind, Hazel fled, knowing that Byron would do whatever possible to find her and bring her back.
The book begins with Hazel's appearance at her widowed father's senior living trailer park and her discovery that her father is in a very committed The other character in the book is Jasper, a con artist who makes women fall in love with him and give him their life savings before breaking up with them and disappearing from their lives. His career comes to a crashing halt when he has a freaky encounter with a dolphin that leaves him solely sexually aroused by thoughts of dolphins and completely unable to become turned on by humans.
Luckily for me, I LOVE books with crazy plots and super strange characters, and no sense of humor is too outlandish for me. I have read almost every single Christopher Moore novel at least twice, and Made for Love reminded me a lot of his books. If you have never read any of Christopher Moore's books and want to laugh out loud until your sides hurt at books that feature totally bizarre plots, check him out.
Start with Practical Demonkeeping or Lamb, for sure! The plot and characters were eccentric, to say the least, but they were also richly drawn and wildly creative.