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Hairstyles is an honest depiction of growing up punk on Chicago's south side: a study in the demons of racial intolerance, Catholic school conformism and class repression. It is the story of the riotous exploits of Brian, a high school burnout, and his best friend Gretchen, a punk rock girl fond of brawling.
Joe Meno won the 2003 Nelson Algren Literary Award and is the author of Tender as Hellfire (St. Martin's, 1999) and How the Hula Girl Sings (HarperCollins, 2001). His online fictional serial, The Secret Hand, is published through Playboy Magazine. His short fiction has been published in TriQuarterly, Bridge, Other Voices Washington Square, and has been broadcast on National Public Radio. He lives in Chicago, and he is a columnist for Punk Planet magazine.
Customer Reviews:
if you ever loved. if you ever hated. .......2007-07-20
i've read somewhere and on amazon too that if i'm not a white suburban kid i will have a hard time relating to this book. but, as i am a white jewish-israeli 26 years old and still very MUCH managed to relate to this book i can assure everyone that the greatness of joe meno the writer and this book in general will not be overlooked and will touch everyone who ever loved. loved music. loved someone or hated. hated someone. hated high schoo. this book genuinely touched me and i loved evey minute of reading it and every page i've read.
highly recommended. not maybe.
Highly recommend it.......2007-07-08
I absolutely loved this book I think for one because it reminded me so much of my own experiences in high school, the characters I could totally relate to, the state of mind, everything was right on the mark, including the song lineup. (The author uses songs and their lyrics throughout the novel to tie up to the character's coming of age experience.)
When I read this novel, it reminded me of a modern punk version of Catcher in the Rye, but with so much originality. The author uses transitions throughout the novel that make it so much more real than your typical novel. Every now and then I would find myself reading and say out loud, "I can't believe he (the author) just did that..." There's one chapter in the novel that is written looking at events backwards.
Best book I've read in a long time.
Not for Everyone.......2007-07-06
If you don't listen to metal, rock or punk music this book is a little hard to relate to. If you aren't a white kid from the suburbs this book is a little hard to relate too. I liked the book, but I probably would have liked it more if I could relate to the characters. With all the said Meno is still a very good writer. He has a very keen sense of sarcasm and when there were moments of brilliance they were pretty good. While it is hard to pick out at times Meno does comment on racism and its relation to class structure, but this is not the main focus of this novel. The main focus seemed to be about a boy trying to find himself and what group he belonged to in the world, if any group at all. Maybe if I would have read this book back in highschool it would have been easier to relate too, seeing as how I am passed the teen angst phase.
Just nostalgic enough.......2007-06-13
A great read. I enjoyed almost every minute of it. maybe.
This book took me back. I felt both nostalgic and relieved. A refreshing account of the American Highschool experience. The negative reviewers simply do not identify with the characters and corroborate Mr. Menos vision of the adolescent identity vacuum.
It'll Take You Back .......2007-05-15
The difficulties of finding one's own personal identity, first loves, chaos and destruction, "parents out of town" basement parties, concerts, killing time, etc. are all in this book. The stories weren't too over the top or cheesy but read like a good friend telling you a story about the time when....
Nothing groundbreaking here but nonetheless a very easy and enjoyable read. For anyone that was into punk/hardcore but at the same time still had roots (and still liked to listen) to metal will dig this book. It will definitely take you back in time and there will be at least one good story or reference that will make you say "Hey I remember doing that" or "I felt that same exact way". For that in itself, the book is worth reading but the story is way more than silly childhood nostalgia and reminiscing. The story deals with some good issues and helps put a little perspective on events or controversies that most people can relate to. In the end, cool song and album references and an overall fun book to read. "We Rock The Streets at Night"
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From New York Times bestseller Christina Dodd comes a second passionate, hilarious historical romance in her Lost Princesses series.
Well behaved women seldom make history – and tempestuous green–eyed Princess Amy of Beaumontagne is determined to make history.
While living on one of the breathtaking English Channel Islands, Amy doesn't live the typical princess's life. Instead, she takes up the cudgels for the hapless villagers whose livelihood was stolen by handsome and powerful Jermyn Edmondson, marquess of Northcliff. Determined to bring reparation to the villagers and make Jermyn realize his misdeeds, Amy kidnaps him, chains him to the wall in her basement and demands a sizeable ransom from Jermyn's Uncle Harrison.
It's a simple plan, destined to succeed. Except:
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Once upon a time...in a kingdom high in the Pyrenees, three young princesses were forced to flee the chaos in their land -- vanishing without a trace and lost to their people...until the day a courageous prince can bring each princess home.
Life in exile has taught the passionate Princess Amy to hate injustice, and on the enchanting English isle of Summerwind, she finds injustice personified in the powerful and wickedly handsome Jermyn Edmondson, marquess of Northcliff. Since he has stolen the islanders' livelihood, Amy decides to steal him. She kidnaps the arrogant nobleman, chains him with his own manacles, and holds him for ransom.
It's a simple plan, destined to succeed. Surely Jermyn's uncle will pay his ransom. Alas, his uncle would be delighted if someone killed his nephew and left him to inherit the title and fortune. And holding the furious, guileful, sensual Jermyn chained in her basement provides a challenge to Amy's restraint...and her virtue.
How could such a little revenge and blackmail go so passionately wrong?
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enjoyable book.......2007-02-17
When the leading lady kidnaps and puts chains on the leading man, you know its a good book.
Excellent.......2007-01-10
I would suggest this book to anyone who enjoys a good romance novel.... Christina Dodd really keeps you intereasted... As with all of her books, this one was hard to put down...
Hilarious/very steamy.......2006-11-08
Okay so who doesn't want to chain a guy up in your basement, especially one who has neglected the kind hearted villagers? Christina Dodd's sense of humor is fantastic, I must admit I was laughing so much my husband got annoyed when we were reading side by side in bed. Amy has a lot of wit, spirit, and yes a little disdain. Jermyn is a kind hearted lust magnet that is finding his way into his Earldom. The best part about the book is that the characters change and those unexpected twist turns make it a very entertaining read.
Christina Dodd does it again!!!!.......2006-07-26
What a fun read! I couldn't put the book down (my house is a mess lol)! Dodd really knows how to put together a good plot. It kept me wanting more. I also found The North Kingdom by Jordan N. Danniels to be another fun summer read. Lots of romance and adventure with 2 gorgeous hunks fighting for her! Buy both and have a fun filled summer read with 2 of the best novels!
The Barefoot Princess.......2006-07-14
This was my second Christina Dodd novel. I was extremely disappointed. Don't waste your money.
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The fact that George MacDonald--a scholar as well as a preacher and writer--once read this fairy tale to his students instead of giving them a lecture says volumes about the man and his beliefs. It also says much about his faith in the power of stories. The Light Princess is a simple enough tale, clearly written for children--a princess at her christening is cursed by a wicked witch with lightness (she floats blissfully about the castle all day long, and gets into all sorts of adventures, as one can easily imagine)--yet it holds a powerful spiritual truth. Gravity, weight, sorrow, suffering--all of this the princess misses, but with all of these she misses love, for what is love without weight, without body? What is love without falling? She discovers this truth, of course, only at the last minute when a faithful prince loves her enough to die for her.
Sometimes it's not a ponderous lecture--or sermon--that we need in order to experience what incarnation is about. --Doug Thorpe.
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A nice story for young children.......2006-06-26
This fairy tale by George MacDonald is about a charming, but bewitched Princess, a Prince in disguise, some nice fairies, and one very bad one. It is easy to like the main characters. Children will enjoy the fact that the adults are rather foolish and even the bad witch is not really scary. This is a nice story for parents to read to young children and then discuss behaviors and conduct.
Richard Pendleton
Pocket edition of classic tale.......2006-05-14
This review will only cover the basics:
I have loved this story since I was a child. Still, this edition is not quite what I remember.
1) This edition does not feature illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Instead, it features a few (about 4) colored etching-type illustrations by Arthur Hughes.
2) The cover page says "unabridged". As I do not have the one I read as a child, I cannot say this is false, but I remember it to be a full-size novel. This edition is about the size of a pocket calculator: 3"X4.5". The font size is about a 10. Yet, each chapter is only a few pages long and the total page count is 131.
This edition claims to be unabridged from MacDonald's 1867 edition of the story included in a collection of fairy tales. As fairly tale collections are frequently abridged stories, I wonder if this edition is claiming to be unabridged from an edition that itself was shortened.
I purchased this copy cheap, knowing there must be a reason for it. Therefore, I was not disappointed. Still, I have now also purchased the edition with Sendak as illustrator.
For a pocket book, I find this to be very nice. Still, if you are unfamiliar with the story, I would recommend a different edition.
Light Princess: good but not great.......2005-07-07
Once I heard about The Light Princess, I ordered it because I buy everything by Robin McKinley, and I have a soft spot for George MacDonald (The Princess and the Goblin). I have not read the original of this, but wanted to see how McKinley would rewrite a classic tale.
The book is pretty but not beautiful, and the story is charming but a bit flat to my taste. In addition, the final change in the princess from careless to concerned seemed unmotivated and hence not quite believable. I think it's a fine book to have in your library, but not worth chasing down too hard.
Excellent in every respect........2005-01-17
The Light Princess has no flaws. I have never read a fairy tale that made me laugh so hard--my wife and I could hardly catch our breaths at the beginning of the story. And then we cried at the end; the symbolism is strikingly powerful. As good as this book is, however, I like one George MacDonald book better: The Lost Princess, although that book is hard to find outside of an anthology. If you can ever find The Lost Princess, however, you find another masterpiece. For the record, my -wife- likes The Light Princess better: I guess there's no accounting for taste! ;)
My most beloved MacDonald book!.......2002-12-18
When I received this as a gift, I had already read and thoroughly delighted in "At the Back of the North Wind," "The Princess and the Goblin," "The Princess and Curdie," and "The Golden Key." When you read MacDonald, if your heart is right, you feel sheltered--the world he creates for you is as trustworthy and pure as C. S. Lewis's Narnia or Rivendell of Tolkien's Middle Earth. At the same time, you feel challenged to transform your own world and make it more like MacDonald's.
I was expecting another dose of the same awe-inspiring goodness without false piety or preachiness that is MacDonald's literary legacy. In "The Light Princess," however, there was an unexpected ingredient--a sharp wit that pervades the whole book and made me laugh out loud more than once. In a modern world where wit and vulgarity are viewed as conjoined twins, how satisfying a book this is! MacDonald infused delicious humor into his characters without losing the innocence. I fell in love with this book by page three, and it has surpassed "The Princess and the Goblin" as my favorite work of George MacDonald.
The fact that my favorite illustrator of all time, Maurice Sendak, added his talents to this book is icing on the cake. Sendak always grabs the heart and soul of the written work and renders it into drawings too evocative to be believed. The drawing of the prince with only his head above the water took my breath away, and in one fabulous illustration, the hilarious expression on the face of the gravity-deprived infant princess as she floats away reflects the hilarity of the story itself.
If some of MacDonald's other stories have turned you off because they are too long, too "deep" or whatever, don't miss this treasure as a result. It is MacDonald-Light, and by that I mean not only easy to read, but typically illumined with beauty and truth. Plus, it's a love story that pokes fun of its own sentimentality. Anyone not brain-dead and heart-numb ought to adore it.
Customer Reviews:
smashing anthology.......2000-10-27
This is a beautifully illustrated anthology of folktales from many cultures. I enjoyed reading it as much as the listener enjoyed hearing it. I did have to tone down some of the stories slightly based on our choices for our preschooler [they are traditional folktales, and sometimes violent, but not more than I was exposed to as a child!] and would not be upsetting to most older children. It is a lovely way to glimpse other cultures and traditions, particularly as the illustrations seem to mesh well with each story and culture.
Customer Reviews:
La Princesa Descalza.......2007-09-01
Apesar de ser una princesa sin reino,exiliada en una tierra extrana,Amy esta dispuesta a combatir la injusticia alli donde se encuentre.Y en la pequena isla de Summerwind encuentra una causa hecha a su medida.Alli,la buena de la senora Victorine,que la acogio como a una hija,esta a punto de perderlo todo por culpa del Marques de Northcliff,que se ha apropiado del dinero que la anciana ha ganado justamente.Amy disena un plan para ayudarla,una idea loca y audaz que incluye raptar al mismisimo marques y pedir rescate por el a su tio.Claro que el plan no contaba con que el secuestrado fuera un hombre tan atractivo y persuasivo,ni que con que su tio estuviera mas que contento de librarse de el para poder heredar.Mantener cautivo al energetico y sensual marques va a ser un desafio para la impulsiva princesa.... y un autentico reto para su virtud.La segunda novela de la serie sobre las tres princesas exiliadas con la que Christina Dodd vuelve a demostrar su habilidad para el romance historico mas delicioso.
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The Barefoot Book of Princesses
Caitlin Matthews
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The Barefoot Princess
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The Emperor Who Forgot His Birthday (Barefoot Beginners)
Jim Edmiston
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Barefoot Book of Princesses
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Huntress: Dark Knight Daughter (Huntress)
Paul Levitz
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Customer Reviews:
nice way of looking at earth 2.......2007-06-26
good stroy line and like the intro letter as well it has a nice ending sequence.
My first Huntress.......2007-02-15
I was so angry with DC when the Crisis killed off Helena Wayne. She was my favorite character, and since I'd grown up wishing I was Batman's daughter... While I enjoy Helena Bertinelli, I am constantly wishing she was the original Huntress. I still miss her.
Bring her back DC. There's room for alternate Earths!
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Incredible Batman Dark Knight Comic from over 15 years ago. Part One of a five part series, this set is a must have for any fan!
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Batman Legends of the Dark Knight #11: Prey Part 1 (DC Comic Book September 1990)
Doug Moench
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Incredible Batman Dark Knight Comic from over 15 years ago. Part Two of a five part series, this set is a must have for any fan!
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Batman Legends of the Dark Knight #12: Prey Part 2 (DC Comic Book November 1990)
Doug Moench
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Incredible collectible from over 15 years ago! Part Three of an incredible Five Part Series, a must have for any fan!
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Batman Legends of the Dark Knight #13: Prey Part 3 (DC Comic Book December 1990)
Doug Moench
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Incredible Batman Dark Knight Comic from over 15 years ago. Part Four of a five part series, this set is a must have for any fan!
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Incredible Batman Dark Knight Comic from over 15 years ago. Part Four of a five part series, this set is a must have for any fan!
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This guide to understanding the mental health of older people reveals how to cope with the normal aging process and see its potentially positive aspects while dealing with its problems.
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Incredibly helpful to understanding needs of the elderly.......2005-11-19
Dr. Billig helps elucidate the myriad and complex difficulties faced by people as they approach later years. By so doing he helps fill a vast lack of knowledge and research about the subject. In his writing, Dr. Billig is at once scientific and caring. As the baby-boomer generation becomes older, his work and this book will become of even greater signficance, both real (as it is already) and perceived. It's a must read.
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