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| Original Title: | Cruddy |
| ISBN: | 068483846X (ISBN13: 9780684838465) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Roberta Rohbeson |
Lynda Barry
Paperback | Pages: 305 pages Rating: 4.14 | 5794 Users | 720 Reviews
Details Epithetical Books Cruddy
| Title | : | Cruddy |
| Author | : | Lynda Barry |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 305 pages |
| Published | : | October 10th 2000 by Simon & Schuster (first published 1999) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Young Adult. Novels. Comics |
Narrative As Books Cruddy
On a September night in 1971, a few days after getting busted for dropping acid, a sixteen-year-old curls up in the corner of her ratty bedroom and begins to write.Now the truth can finally be revealed about the mysterious day long ago when the authorities found a child, calmly walking in the boiling desert, covered with blood.
The girl is Roberta Rohbeson, and her rant against a world bounded by "the cruddy top bedroom of a cruddy rental house on a very cruddy mud road" soon becomes a detailed account of another story, one that she has kept silent since she was eleven.
Darkly funny and resonant with humanity, Cruddy, masterfully intertwines Roberta's stories -- part Easy Rider and part bipolar Wizard of Oz. These stories, the backbone of Roberta's short life, include a one-way trip across America fueled by revenge and greed and a vivid cast of characters, starring Roberta's dangerous father, the owners of the Knocking Hammer Bar-cum-slaughterhouse, and runaway adolescents. With a teenager's eye for freakish detail and a nervous ability to make the most horrible scenes seem hilarious, Cruddy is a stunning achievement.
Rating Epithetical Books Cruddy
Ratings: 4.14 From 5794 Users | 720 ReviewsArticle Epithetical Books Cruddy
This is one of the most disturbing and grotesque books I've ever read, and I have a sneaking suspicion that I would have gotten more out of it if only I had at some point done a lot of psychotropic drugs. I can't say I enjoyed this book, but I was kind of amazed by it. I think the story and the characters are on a level of screwed up I am nowhere close to - and by the end of the novel I was really very grateful for that. This is a reading experience of shock and awe, maybe, then. I honestlyWhat I learned from this book is that my life is not as weird, twisted, or unfortunate as I thought it was. My father may have taken me to bars as a toddler and let the old men play with me, but he never cut off my finger or had me shave my head and pretend to be a mute Mongoloid of the opposite gender. I may not always like my life or chosen profession, but at least I'm not morbidly obese with a blue tooth stuck running a bar that's a front for grinding up the corpses of murdered people. I do
Words and phrases from my friend Jodi's review of the novel Cruddy by Lynda Barry that made it absolutely mandatory that I read it stat:"Slaughterhouse.""... bodies left in their wake.""Horrifying.""Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach."And the ultimate deal sealer:"There were paragraphs I had to skip over because the descriptions of slaughter and dead bodies were too graphic for me. In fact, my stomach jumps a little and I shiver just thinking about them. Blech.""Sold!" I wrote in the
If Bukowski and Harry Crews had a girl-baby, and dubbed R. Crumb the godfather, that girl-baby might be Lynda Barry. I have no idea how this book is listed as a YA novel, which is where I got it from in the library. I picked it up because I love The Greatest of Marlys. But, man oh man-alive, I did not see this coming. There are very few redeemable characters, certainly not a single adult and every teenager is fucked up in some serious way - occasionally endearing, most of the time you want to
There is nothing I can write that hasn't already been written (and much better than I could) by others. Except, I don't think it's proven that Roberta actually commits suicide; all we know is that she doesn't come home. Given her earlier battle to stay alive, (why commit suicide now?), just as likely she was talked out of it by her one-browed friend, who she has to rely on to help her do herself in, if that really is her outcome. Lynda Barry is one of my favorite comics writers, because she has
This book is some sick shit. I took a break from "We Are Not Afraid" to finish this for Bar Book Club, reading the last pages before stepping out the door to see the new Batman movie. So basically the last few days of my life, I have been mired in a lot of dark, depressing, and "sick shit," at least in terms of reading and viewing material. To transition from a book about the lynching of Civil Rights workers to a bloody, murderful saga of child abuse, outsiderness, and general psychosis - tis
I loved this book!! I've been meaning to read Barry for awhile and came across a copy of Cruddy and went for it. I don't know where to place this book. It's the story of a girl named Roberta who may very well of had the most miserable existence anyone could conjur up, and it unveils itself in a stream of off the wall disaster and heartbreaking realizations. Two narrative rn parallel to each other as Roberta accounts both from her "restricted life;" she's grounded. One narrative is the story of
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