Monkey Girl: Swingin' Tales [Paperback]

Beth Lisick (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Manic D Press, Inc. (April 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0916397491
• ISBN-13: 978-0916397494
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,956,492 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Totally smart and funny, December 10, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Monkey Girl: Swingin' Tales (Paperback)

This book is great - I got it after reading her new one This Too Can Be Yours. Filled with short sharp stories about you-name-it everything (friends, parents, roommates, relationships, etc.), I've never read a writer who seems to put our current society in a nutshell so well. Lisick reduces fictional characters to archetypes (everyone in this book seems so familiar...) and turns ordinary scenarios into hilarious situations. I love books that make me laugh and this one certainly did!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Way to go Monkey Girl!, January 12, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Monkey Girl: Swingin' Tales (Paperback)

Now, I've loved Anaïs Nin's work, but when Beth asks what makes Anaïs a legend and not "just a slut with a diary," we all know what she means. This the funky world of urban life for people of the twenty-something turning thirty-somethings set. This is what it's like to go into a bar and have some weirdo ask you ridiculous questions or claim to be your soul-mate over kamikazes. These pieces have big hi-fi volume running around on little PAC-MAN feet, always teetering on some amazing precipice of sanity. But then there are these moments that hurt they're so beautiful. Read "Empress of Sighs" and just see if the last few lines don't make you want to call your recenlty-moved or recently-retired or recently-menopaused mother and make sure she's okay. Or maybe look in the mirror and start counting backward your own self. There is a lot of humor in this book and you will undoubtedly laugh out loud while reading it. But there is an underlying social commentary thing going on that is somehow, at once, both subtle and fire-starting, sizzling greasy bacon. And my my, if you ever get an opportunity to see Lisick perform, go go go! Kudos to Lisick on such a marvelous book.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE BEST portrait of pop culture in the 90's!, July 3, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Monkey Girl: Swingin' Tales (Paperback)

From "Crappy Brown Carpeting" to "The Answer Is Plastic," every single chapter is a classic tale of America in the nineties. Lisick is a new kind of writer, an original. You must have this book! She expresses herself with a pleasant sense of humor, understanding, and the perfect touch of criticism! This fresh new style of writing and poetry will definitely put a smile on your face