Comments on: new reading matter http://www.pileup.com/babyart/blog/?p=406 trevor brown things Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:49:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Ryan http://www.pileup.com/babyart/blog/?p=406#comment-38450 Ryan Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:57:59 +0000 http://www.pileup.com/babyart/blog/?p=406#comment-38450 I love Cruddy, it's one of my favorite novels... a blue-collar coming of age book, I read back around the time it was first released. Really humane and disturbing story, Barry is a gifted, excellent storyteller. Not a fan of Gilbert Shelton, that stuff is forever dated to me I love Cruddy, it’s one of my favorite novels… a blue-collar coming of age book, I read back around the time it was first released. Really humane and disturbing story, Barry is a gifted, excellent storyteller.

Not a fan of Gilbert Shelton, that stuff is forever dated to me

]]> By: otto117 http://www.pileup.com/babyart/blog/?p=406#comment-37716 otto117 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:30:52 +0000 http://www.pileup.com/babyart/blog/?p=406#comment-37716 I read "Cruddy" a few years ago. It's quite amusing in parts; Barry is quite twisted, but it's also over-the-top victimology. On the other hand, she does better with a 16-year-old voice than a lot of writers. (Cf. D.B.C. Pierre's "Vernon God Little," which is often hilarious but is definitely NOT the voice of a teenage boy.) Barry's protagonist is repeatedly mistaken for a boy, so pederasts are always hitting on her for sex, but she carries a serious knife (she call it Little Debbie) and isn't afraid to slice a few people up with it. I read “Cruddy” a few years ago. It’s quite amusing in parts; Barry is quite twisted, but it’s also over-the-top victimology. On the other hand, she does better with a 16-year-old voice than a lot of writers. (Cf. D.B.C. Pierre’s “Vernon God Little,” which is often hilarious but is definitely NOT the voice of a teenage boy.) Barry’s protagonist is repeatedly mistaken for a boy, so pederasts are always hitting on her for sex, but she carries a serious knife (she call it Little Debbie) and isn’t afraid to slice a few people up with it.

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