Francesca Lia Block's luminous, postmodern fairy tales chronicle the thin line between fear and desire, pain and pleasure, cutting loose and holding on in a world where everyone is vulnerable to the most beautiful and dangerous angel of all: love.
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Amazon.com Review
Lanky lizards! The slinkster-cool novels in Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat series have finally been compiled into one delicious volume. All of the ethereal, mesmerizing titles are here--Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, Missing Angel Juan, and Baby Be-Bop--together like the big, beautiful family described on their pages. Block's unique, poetic style immediately draws readers into an intoxicating magical-realist world populated by empathetic, original characters (as well as a few ghosts, fairies, and genies): "He kissed her. A kiss about apple pie à la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten chocolate in a year. A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the Strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs."
We cheer for these young women and men as they struggle with the universal trials of growing up, finding love, and letting go--all within the vivid, glittering, urban embrace of Los Angeles. Block's stories about finding yourself, being true to your dreams, and believing in what might seem impossible will inspire teens and adults alike with the resounding messages of hope and the transformative power of love. --Brangien Davis
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“A poetic series of books celebrating love, art, and the imagination, all in hyper-lyrical language.” (Spin )
“Magic is everywhere in Block’s lyrical and resonant fables. At once modern and mythic, her series deserves as much space as it can command of daydream nation’s shrinking bookshelves.” (Village Voice )
“Transcendent.” (New York Times Book Review )
“Ms. Block’s far-ranging free association has been controlled and shaped...with sensual characters. The language is inventive Californian hip, but the patterns are compactly folkloristic and the theme is transcendent.” (New York Times Book Review )
“Magic is everywhere in Block’s lyrical and resonant fables. At once modern and mythic, her series deserves as much space as it can command of daydream nation’s shrinking bookshelves.” (Village Voice )
“Transcendent.” (New York Times Book Review )
“Ms. Block’s far-ranging free association has been controlled and shaped...with sensual characters. The language is inventive Californian hip, but the patterns are compactly folkloristic and the theme is transcendent.” (New York Times Book Review )
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Francesca Lia Block, recipient of the prestigious Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award. has been publishing novels, short stories, essays, memoirs and poetry since 1989. Her work has been translated into many languages. Ms. Block lives in Los Angeles where she teaches writing workshops that are also available online.
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128 of 136 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'd read the whole Weetzie Bat series before purchasing this book, but the problem was that no-one I'd loaned my individual copies of the stories to ever returned them. (Which may, in and of itself, be a testament to the kick-butt slinkster coolness that is intrinsically a part of this book.)
So anyway, as I was falling in love with a girl with whom I go to college, I read her Weetzie Bat. It was really cool. Especially the part in which My Secret Agent Lover Man expresses his undying love for Weetzie (I liked the part about "You are my martini..."). Since that time (about a month ago), however, this person has emotionally crucified me, and started dating an extremely goofy-looking boy.
Alas, that's the life portrayed in Ms. Block's novellas: hartbreaking and inspiring, exhilirating and melancholy. Read as modern day fairy-tales, they are wonderfully crafted pieces of fiction. Not surprisingly, however, I've read many scathing reviews of this series on Amazon.com. I think that for people to review it poorly, they have to miss the point--that these are fairy-tales. I wouldn't want a 13-year-old kid reading this as an instruction guide to life, but then again, how many people take fiction that seriously? (At least a few people do, as evidenced by the reviews.)
As with all fairy-tales, there is a moral behind the narrative: that love and universal acceptance goes a long way to make people happy, to heal hurt, and to generally make the world a better place--but also that things that some people take for love (that is, sex) can be devastating and hurtful. Love *IS* a dangerous angel. On that level, this book is not only a beautiful piece of prose, but of perhaps immeasurable value to a world torn by conflict, hurt, and hate. I just wish that more people would see the good in this book, instead of the bad.
(Good for high-school aged and up readers, but I'd probably have it tempered by parental guidance for anyone younger than, say, 15.)
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book has become my bible. I think I've read it 8 times in six months. It's almost become an escape for me. When life depresses me, I read about Weetzie & Co., and I see that they go through hard times, but things turn out all right if you have love in your heart. I always feel rays of hope throughout my soul after reading it. I remember that although the world is full of pain, there is so much good in it as well. I've recommended it to about a million people, because it is the best book I have ever read. I wish I could move into their house in the canyon and live in the place where it's hot and cool, glam and slam, angels and devils, Los Angeles.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I loved this book. My grandmother bought it for me on the 16th and I was done reading it on the 17. I read the entire book in two sit down sessions. The story is very realistic with just the right touch of fairy tale for it to be wonderful. I know this is a bad reviev but I'm only 13!!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Original and gritty feeling to writing.
With this series I was hoping for more fantasy. While there is some there is also a piece of reality fitting into the story. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Shannon M. Mcgee
Whimsy and Joy, Pain and Searching
Five books from the Weetzie Bat series rolled into one volume. What a treat! Although I'd read the first three books previously, it was great to read them as one cohesive piece. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Deb Cushman
Such delicious imagery
I first read this book as a college freshman, based off a recommendation of a friend. Not only is the story itself a wonderful modern fairy tale, the absolutely gorgeous imagery... Read more
Published 2 months ago by TiggerMama
Weetzie and gang take you on a dangerous, magical ride
Weetzie Bat books 1-5
Includes: Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop
Weetzie Bat meets a genie and he grants... Read more
Includes: Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop
Weetzie Bat meets a genie and he grants... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Brittany Moore
Fast shipping great book set !
I got this book quite a bit sooner than the " expected date" . There was only one little
Problem with the book ( a little tiny bend in the corner of the cover) but nothing... Read more
Problem with the book ( a little tiny bend in the corner of the cover) but nothing... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Hellochelsea
Awesome Book
I love this book is one of my favorite books in the whole world its a great mystical story that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand with excitement..!
Published 15 months ago by Ozzyplays
Great book...if you get it.
I don't understand everyone saying the Dangerous Angel books are poorly written. Block is doing something with the vocabulary to make a unique story. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Diane Greene
Fell flat for me
This is a volume that just didn't hook me. I don't understand how it got such glowing reviews that I was convinced I'd love it...but happens I cannot even finish this one. Read more
Published on March 26, 2010 by DF
"I Dream We Are Inside the Globe Lamp..."
Francesca Lia Block writes strange but intoxicating tales; stories that are surreal and yet oddly comforting, and to classify her books is nearly impossible. Read more
Published on July 29, 2009 by R. M. Fisher
Beautiful Imagery, Everyone should read this
When I read this book I had recently moved from LA to Texas, homesick I stumbled across 'Baby Bebop'. I read it in one night, and was amazed and enchanted. Read more
Published on June 5, 2009 by Courtney 'Chris' Rose Taylor
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The reason Weetzie Bat hated high school was because no one understood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
witch baby, slinkster dog, niña bruja, lanky lizards, goat pants, tilty eyes, goat guys, toenail scissors, curly toes, fur pants, globe lamp, witch babies, witch child, genie lamp Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Angel Juan, Secret Agent Lover Man, Charlie Bat, New York, The Goat Guys, Cherokee Bat, Tracey Stace, Jayne Mansfield, James Dean, Rag Mop, Weetzie Bat, Charlie Chaplin, Ping Chong, Santa Cruz, Nancy Nance, The Vamp, Los Diablos, Raphael Chong Jah-Love, Vixanne Wigg, White Dawn, Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, Coney Island, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Angel New!
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The reason Weetzie Bat hated high school was because no one understood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
witch baby, slinkster dog, niña bruja, lanky lizards, goat pants, tilty eyes, goat guys, toenail scissors, curly toes, fur pants, globe lamp, witch babies, witch child, genie lamp Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Angel Juan, Secret Agent Lover Man, Charlie Bat, New York, The Goat Guys, Cherokee Bat, Tracey Stace, Jayne Mansfield, James Dean, Rag Mop, Weetzie Bat, Charlie Chaplin, Ping Chong, Santa Cruz, Nancy Nance, The Vamp, Los Diablos, Raphael Chong Jah-Love, Vixanne Wigg, White Dawn, Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, Coney Island, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Angel New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Secret Agent by Top That! on 10 pages
- Baby Be-Bop (Weetzie Bat) by Francesca Lia Block in Front Matter
- Weetzie Bat (10th Anniversary Edition) by Francesca Lia Block in Front Matter
- The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics) by Joseph Conrad on page 155
- Goat Girls: Two Weetzie Bat Books by Francesca Lia Block in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Best American Erotica 2002 by Susie Bright in Back Matter
- Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes in Back Matter
- Wasteland by Francesca Lia Block in Front Matter
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