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Title: Ratz Are Nice (PCP) Is Pure Garbage
Review: I started reading "Ratz Are Nice (PCP)" with an open mind right after finishing a great novel entitled "American Skin." That was my biggest mistake. Whereas Don De Grazia's "American Skin" was a cohesive, inventive narrative revolving around finely developed and believable characters within an admittably "fringe" subculture, "Ratz Are Nice" immediately climbs uphill with a narrative style that is incomprehensible, gimmicky and just plain boring. Quite frankly, Braithwaite's writing here is pure gibberish. Often it wasn't even clear to me who was who or why certain "characters" (for lack of a better word) were included in his story at all. The best three things about "Ratz Are Nice (PCP)" are (i) the front cover photo of a group of interacial skins and streetpunks, (ii) the entertaining (although sometimes inaccurate) "Author Notes" and (iii) the fact that the thing is short. Avoid at ALL costs!
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