Dirty Little Altar Boy [Paperback]

Brandon Christopher (Author)

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About the Author

Brandon D. Christopher lives in Los Angeles, where he has survived 41 jobs, 17 career beginnings, written a few television documentaries, spent four days in jail, and took a 3-hour seminar at the Learning Annex to become a private investigator.

Product Details

• Paperback: 158 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (March 6, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595430457
• ISBN-13: 978-0595430451
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,054,169 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Stories from the Playground Read it, April 7, 2007

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JohnyB (Cedar Rapids, IA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dirty Little Altar Boy (Paperback)

This is a great book covering a time of change we have all been through. The author mixes humor with insight to take you through those troubled times between adolescents and the teen years. One will never know how he, his family and, friends ever survived these stories. Great fun!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A completely original and irreverent coming-of-age story, March 16, 2007

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Sharon Bryan (New York) - See all my reviews
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When I finished the last page of this book, misty-eyed and smiling at the same time, I was ready to start over and read it again. Not only is it funny and smart, this book stays with you. It's a coming-of-age story that dodges the cliches, and it isn't afraid to get its hands dirty, just like the 13-year old protagonist himself. It touches on such a pivotal age, and through a series of short stories creates a large, vivid, and fulfilling novel. The characters are colorful and unflinchingly truthful, and the situations (from the hilariously surreal to the painfully too-real) are relatable and clever. The writer handles his subject matter with subtle brush strokes in some stories, or with the unbridled enthusiasm of a Rick Springfield concert when necessary. You can't help but connect with the protagonist, an outcast hero whose observations of his increasingly complicated world are written with a pitch-perfect voice that encompasses everything from innocence to cynicism, hope to disgust. This novel is funny, heartbreaking, moving, imaginative, and mischievous.

5.0 out of 5 stars A Fine Dandy of a Book, July 30, 2009

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Phares Gonzales "ZZardozZ" (Botswana) - See all my reviews
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His view of life is a humorous analogue to the curious and poignant, the unconscious things we do and things we come to believe. Brandon has a brilliant ability to plumb the divine comedy like loose change from the earth tone sofa of our childhoods and brings those blurry memories hilariously into focus.