overall 19 votes: 
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Servicing the Pole is the portrait of a New York stripper—a battle-worn misfit slogging her way through the city’s roughest clubs, watching as the job replaces her personal life, and secretly harbouring rock star ambitions. As the fast-paced night life’s deceptive promises of easy money gradually give way to the harsher realities of addiction and prostitution, Emily must decide—is . . .
overall 8 votes: 
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A four book countdown until the Mayan Calendar’s last date, 20/12/2012. A rambling maze of several connecting stories, all involving some attractive young women and wild-assed guys. And all, without knowing it, in pursuit of the mystery of the End Of Time. The lovely young Mayanologist, the rapacious lesbian industrial spy, the ReElect Obama manipulators, the dolphin groupie, . . .
What first drew me into Servicing the Pole was the quick, succinct voice of the character. It is written in first person present tense—something that usually bothers me—but I scarcely noticed it when I began to read.
Servicing the Pole isn’t a happy story—in fact, most of the time I found [more . . .]
I am currently reading Shaw’s "Servicing The Pole", and I want to start by saying that I think it is to her credit that she wants to maintain her independence as an author and remain true to her vision for the dimensions of her main characters. I am enjoying the fact that Shaw seems able to [more . . .]