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Summary: I cried over almost every story
Review: Lynda Barry is so amazing with her honesty. Every story resonated with me: she didn't try to paint herself in a great light, but showed the truth -- which blew me away.
Thank you, Lynda, for being so honest. I cried, cried, cried cuz I saw myself in your stories. So many regrets I have after years and years, myself. So many people who I was cruel to; so many things I screwed up.
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Summary: Just Lynda Barry's usually awesome, trippy stuff
Review: Lynda Barry's "One! Hundred! Demons!" is just another astonishingly wonderful book in a long line of astonishingly wonderful books. Using Japanese inks and brushes, she categorizes the demons of her childhood. We see everything from resilience to hate to common scents, from magic to "girlness" to dogs to cicadas. Among the many pleasures of the book--Barry's extremely simple yet enormously evocative illustrations, the awesome ear she has for the way children speak to each other, the cheerful colors belying much of the sadness inherent in her work--is the section entitled "Magic." This regards Barry's rejection, at age thirteen, of her two-years-younger best friend. It's easy to tell that even more than thirty years later, Barry feels shame over this episode. She so deftly sketches the psyche of her thirteen-year old self that we are left alternating between complete understanding of her actions and rueful sorrow that she couldn't ignore the age difference. This is a funky, trippy book that's simultaneously a quick read and something you want to linger over the second (and third, and fourth) time you read it. Long may Lynda Barry rule!
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Summary: Just Lynda Barry's usually awesome, trippy stuff
Review: Lynda Barry's "One! Hundred! Demons!" is just another astonishingly wonderful book in a long line of astonishingly wonderful books. Using Japanese inks and brushes, she categorizes the demons of her childhood. We see everything from resilience to hate to common scents, from magic to "girlness" to dogs to cicadas. Among the many pleasures of the book--Barry's extremely simple yet enormously evocative illustrations, the awesome ear she has for the way children speak to each other, the cheerful colors belying much of the sadness inherent in her work--is the section entitled "Magic." This regards Barry's rejection, at age thirteen, of her two-years-younger best friend. It's easy to tell that even more than thirty years later, Barry feels shame over this episode. She so deftly sketches the psyche of her thirteen-year old self that we are left alternating between complete understanding of her actions and rueful sorrow that she couldn't ignore the age difference. This is a funky, trippy book that's simultaneously a quick read and something you want to linger over the second (and third, and fourth) time you read it. Long may Lynda Barry rule!
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Summary: Maybe Barry's best yet!
Review: This "autobifictionalography" collects Barry's brilliant salon.com sketches of the demons we all face in our lives. It is exactly that universality that makes for magical reading. The intense specificity of childhood's horrors made me feel like I was reading my own life, not Barry's. Barry's artistry is in telling and illustrating these stories with incredible humor as well as unlimited heart. Particularly haunting of the eighteen stories are the lost friendship in "Magic" and "Resilience" which gives the lie to adult fantsies of childhood innocence. It's increasingly clear that Lynda Barry is our finest writer of the emotional lives of damaged children. She gives voice to kids that few people ever listened to. Having been one of those kids, it's an amazing feeling to realize that you are understood and you were not alone.
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Summary: A Book that should be a mandatory read - everywhere!
Review: This book is utterly, totally amazing! Lynda Barry rocks my world! If you are a Lynda Barry fan, whether a Pookster or someone who loved "Cruddy", this book is a must-read. The illustrations are epic, and the stories are alternatingly heart-warming and gut-wrenching. A brave and beautiful effort.
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Summary: Lynda Barry -- Goddess of All That Is Cool!
Review: This book is utterly, totally amazing! Lynda Barry rocks my world! If you are a Lynda Barry fan, whether a Pookster or someone who loved "Cruddy", this book is a must-read. The illustrations are epic, and the stories are alternatingly heart-warming and gut-wrenching. A brave and beautiful effort.
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Summary: Lynda Barry -- Goddess of All That Is Cool!
Review: This book is utterly, totally amazing! Lynda Barry rocks my world! If you are a Lynda Barry fan, whether a Pookster or someone who loved "Cruddy", this book is a must-read. The illustrations are epic, and the stories are alternatingly heart-warming and gut-wrenching. A brave and beautiful effort.
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Summary: Holy Cow! This is the okayest book ever written!
Review: This is the Okayest book I have ever Read! More Okay than anything else I have read EVER! Some people should Definately READ THIS BOOK!
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Summary: Holy Cow! This is the okayest book ever written!
Review: This is the Okayest book I have ever Read! More Okay than anything else I have read EVER! Some people should Definately READ THIS BOOK!
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Summary: Touching and umm...Wow?
Review: This will take you back there. Childhood. Keep your seat belts fastened.
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