CRUDDY: An Illustrated Novel
by Lynda Barry
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Author: Lynda BarryEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-10-10
ISBN: 068483846X
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Book Review: The CRUDDY Experience
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved Barry's recent "Freddie Stories," but many seemed to find it "disturbing." Belive me, that brilliant homage to thrown-away children was just the warm-up. "CRUDDY" is one of the most horrifying examinations of wrecked childhood ever written. At times, I read pages at a time without stopping to blink, mesmerized -- as always-- by Barry's unique voice and genius for dialogue. But by the end of the book, I was stopping at the end of each paragraph, gulping for oxygen, my finger on the speed-dial for 911. Standard thrillers don't faze me; they're just books. But "Cruddy" is not just a book, because Barry is not just a writer. Her gift for the deeply-real pulls me way too far into the horrors of the narrator's "cruddy" life. READ IT. It's "Rule of the Bone" plus "Man who Fell in Love with the Moon" multiplied by the film "Gummo", but more than all of them put together, because it is Lynda Barry. Do I sound like I hated it? I loved it.
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