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A Young Girl's Crimes (Uncensored And Uncut)

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This is the book your grandma wouldn't want you to read. Shocking and insightful. This uncut version is also a bit better.

Don't be too hard on him, Rehak first wrote this whacky novella as a precocious teen, published in first-year university, and even a prodigy is not perfect. For a first book and for the type of bare bones style book it tries to be this is not a bad book even with its perceived flaws. Rather this than the over-detailed over-long boring pretentious unreadable drivel we sometimes get. Rehak knows how to tell a lurid super-gripping story in a quick and easy flowing style that cuts through unnecessary padding and whatever else it may do never bores. I thought the hokey elements were hilarious, intended or not. With some more decent exposure, this would be a cult classic with the Flora Darbys of the world. I'm not sure what screwed-up, angry, depressed teenagers looking for love and acceptance were called in the 1950s but my friend Alice calls the modern-day equivalent EMO.

Twisted plot and characters with scary twists and turns. Dialogue is fine for the '50s, didn't spot any neologisms. Pacing is not slow but very VERY fast-paced (maybe too fast) and writing style is extremely clear and simple (too simple) but, strangely, engaging. The kind of book that even non-avid readers could find especially entertaining since it's such an easy and straightforward read for the shorter attention span. An interesting experiment in literary minimalism.

I think I understand its unique appeal, non-literary commercial fiction appeal, both in style and sensationalism. Well worth reading, when you're in the mood for this kind of thing. I felt I "knew" Flora, but I wish the author had gone deeper into her thought processes. After I recover from the shock I received from this crazy little story and I'm in the right mood for an easy breezy read that pervs me out or touches my heart (CRIPPLED DREAMS), I'll surely go with this author again- but with that in mind, a longer more fleshed out book next time please. But this is I think a good one to start with.

What are you kidding????? This book was listed in "Mysteries for Young Teens"!!!!! Not an appropriate book for any teen!!!!! It's about prono, vulgar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!