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Title: Cruddy Oozes into your Brain
Review: This is not the kind of book I would usually read. But once I started, I couldn't put it down. It is quite unusual, and not the kind of book you would ever expect from a writer reputed to be a feminist. It is not at all Cruddy. It's an awesome book, but not one I'd want my ten year old to read. It's too violent. But for over 17, it's a good story.The fascinating thing about this book is the way the writer oozes through into the story. I say ooze, because, Lynda Barry is the closest thing to R. Crumb, the weird cartoonist of the sixties, that a person with female anatomy is going to come. So, while this is, at one level, a horrific story of teenage angst, it at the same time has a strange edge which adds something very special and uniquely Lynda Barryish to it.Read it and be pleasantly surprised-- and horrified. <G>
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