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Short People

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This collection of stories gets inside the heads of kids. Furst reveals voices of children that are eerily familiar but more expressive than even the most articulate child could ever be. He has a particularly good eye for detail. His memory for the stuff we had as kids--and our bizarre attachment to these tv shows and toys--could be the stuff of a bad 90s movie. But Furst uses this attention to detail for much more than ironic "retro" nostalgia. In a least redemptive interpretation, these stories could question whether it is all worth it. At their most respectful, the stories give kids a kind of respect that they very rarely get, even though they deserve it.

Oh, and it is also very funny.

DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY. First of all the title of the book is stolen from a title of a song, it's not even original. The content is repetitive and the language too childlike. This story is supposed to be for adults to read about childhood, but comes off as a book for children. Structure is all over the place. Let me stress again, the language is REPETITIVE. BTW, I read an excerpt of this authors second book- IT'S JUST AS IF NOT EVEN MORE BORING THAN THIS ONE. This writer needs to go back to school and take a workshop on writing. He writes like a know it all when it comes to kids, but is an unskilled communicator. Author needs to be humbled.