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Summary: Dark Humor is Funny
Review: I LOVE THIS BOOK! I found it at my local Hot Topic and I got it for my brithday, and at first my dad didn't want me to have it cuz it was too dark! Well besides that, this is a funny book and it has become one of my favorites. My favorite stories are the first two, Matchstick Boy in Love and Robot Boy, just because the endings are hilarious. But yes, this is definately not a book you can read to a kid as they're going to sleep. I'm a big fan of Burton's work, and once again, he get five stars out of me!
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Summary: NOT appropriate for today's post-Columbine youth!
Review: Granted, I am not the target audience for this book. I bought it with the intention of giving it to my teen-age niece, who is going through some difficult times. Fortunately I read it before wrapping it up for her! This book is not funny, it is SICK! Worse, it is dangerous-- the last thing my niece needs is to be overheard telling these stories at school, she would be expelled!I am a pretty open-minded person. I can appreciate dark humor. I was a nerdy tortured misfit in my own youth and can certainly appreciate humor at the expense of the "in" crowds. Several of the stories poke painful fun at the psychiatric establishment, at being forced to be "normal", and at having alcoholic or just plain crazy parents. I winced at some of them (in one a little boy's parents have him put to sleep because of a "loose brain"), but I can see their appeal. However, when Helga infiltrates the "Debbies" (popular girls), she ends by cutting off their heads. Creepy Susie is troubled by sexual feelings that she doesn't understand and can't get anyone to explain to her, so she takes a knife to the object of her affection and cuts out his brain. Patty solves her sibling rivalry by killing her brother with a rake. Jenny, Jenny, Jenny, and Babette (Siamese quadruplets joined at the head) run away and finally find happiness, then go back to their hated parents, cook them, and eat them. I'm sorry, but in today's post-Columbine age, kids solving their problems by killing people is just NOT FUNNY. Needless to say, I am returning the book, and good riddance to it!
Rating: 
Summary: Funny................not $20 funny!
Review: I just received my copy of Creepie Susie about ten minutes ago, and I just FINISHED my copy of Creepie Susie about five minutes ago! It would have been nice if one of the reviewers had seen fit to mention that this is a $20 dollar book that is comprised of a little over 100 pages that rarely have more than two sentences per page. It's an odd experience reading a book whose page per minute/total expense ratio seems to be on par with your average 900# Psychic Hotline Rip off. I will say however, the crudely drawn characters (Think Terrence and Phillip from South Park) and the short (so very short) stories of cruelty and insanity, were so strangely unique that you can't help laughing. Just expected a few more of those laughs for the price
Rating:
Summary: A complete riot!
Review: I was laughing the entire time I read this thing. Absolutely random and pointless, it's very 'light' reading that should satisfy anyone who enjoys the bitterness of an episode of Daria.
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