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Sto caricando le informazioni... Colors Insulting to Nature (2004)di Cintra Wilson
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. An exploration of fame, this book takes pace at a television commercial pace. The book moves from scene to scene in short chunks, rarely lasting more than a page or two. It also, several times, reminds the reader that it is a book, with asides from the author. In other words, this book is aggressively determined to be modern, to be Gen X-y. And while it is those things, and they are interesting things to do, they don't help to make this a better book. In fact, I found them to get in the way of the story. I didn't hate Colors Insulting to Nature, but I didn't like it as much as a wanted to. What's more, the forceful wackiness had a tendency to make the characters seem firmly other, slipping into caricature, when what I really want from a modern, Gen X-y tale is a chance to identify, to have something about my world revealed. In the whole, I found the book not bad, but disappointing and distant. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
A hilarious and original debut novel that skewers our craze for celebrity. Liza Normal, like a million teenagers before her, wants desperately to be famous. If she can't be famous, she'll settle for infamy. But no Pop Idol contest on earth will ever crown someone like Liza, with her spookily vulgar 'vocal stylings' and her stripper's wardrobe. Her wits addled by celebrity culture, the ashes of failed stardom in her mouth, she decides to turn her back on her tinsel dreams and embrace her outsider status with a ferocious purity. Colors Insulting to Nature is a brazenly hilarious odyssey through teen humiliation: the crushes who spurn her, the revenges gone wrong, and the dawning realization that life doesn't come with a soundtrack that tells you when to laugh and cry or an audience to applaud at the end. Cintra Wilson is a pyrotechnic wit - the natural heir to Douglas Coupland and the challenger to Dave Eggers. This novel will have readers howling with laughter and writhing with retrospective embarrassment. She is a staggering talent. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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This was a fun book for someone my age to read; Liza and I are roughly the same age, so many of the cultural references were a real blast from the past. Her high school experiences were so poignantly awful but funny at the same time.....I imagine Liza in middle age looking back and laughing at her young self.
While I could never really understand her quest for fame I have seen other people dream the same dreams as Liza and experience similar hard truths about the nature of celebrity.......you might fall in love with fame, but it doesn't care about you.
My favorite characters were Liza's grandmother, Noreen, her brother Ned and her best friend Lorna, I thought they had the best qualities and made the most positive influences on Liza. Most of them had happy endings, and good for them! ( )