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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: New Harvest (March 25, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 054426200X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0544262003
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.1 x 8.2 inches
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3.0 out of 5 starsa very different read
By Amanda on May 13, 2014
Format: Kindle Edition
I don’t even know where to begin with this review. This book contains four parts as the story moves from Brooklyn, to Bloomington, back and forth in time to Berkley and ending in Bakersfield. As we begin Judas is attempting to find a Tibetan author in the hopes of translating his next novel. Maybe he’s a plagiarist, maybe he’s a brilliant author-who’s to tell? The book meanders all over the country from there. I enjoyed how the flow moved overall from perspective to perspective and time and place. There were a few direct interjections into the book of the author speaking directly to the reader and those I found to be somewhat jarring. It was enough for me to switch man to woman, drunk to sober, city to city. I did not need this additional break in the flow-though the snarky comments about his own characters did make me laugh. Such as:

He went away feeling sorry for himself: seeing himself as Candide and wondering why he had even bothered moving here. But the reader shouldn’t feel too sorry for him, as he was ignoring all of the times in his life when he had been the one who had acted like a total dick to someone else. He tended to express his aggression more passively than Walter and his friends, of course, but at least they were open about who they were. Judas, on the other hand, pretended even to himself that he was sweet, romantic, and innocent when in fact he was just as competitive, lustful, and petty as any of them. Which is to say that he kind of deserved to have his finger broken.

The synopsis calls the parts “ a bohemian satire, a campus comedy, a stoner’s reverie, and a quadruple love story” and while I would say I found all of these but the love story in Bad Teeth, I think this could all be summed up as a bohemian satire.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars
By Pamela B. Childers on March 14, 2015
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A fun read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars"It's unfair to reduce others to the roles they play in our lives."
By Matt Laird on May 2, 2014
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I think this is a wonderful book, but I'll admit that I'm struggling to come up with a brief description of what the book is actually about. Of course, you can see the plot summary, but I can't help but feel that it doesn't quite capture the extent of what happens in this novel. It's a book about a loose collection of characters whose lives are basically intertwined, often in ways that they don't realize, orbiting around the main character (such as he is) Judas, and his search for the elusive Tibetan author.

Regardless of what else you get from this book, I think the actual stories that combine to make up the plot are captivating, funny, and often heartbreaking. I was very impressed at the way Mr. Long wove these stories together, so that plot threads that seemed to exist in different universes were eventually shown to be a part of a single, cohesive whole. The narrative is wonderful, entertaining and satisfying, but it wasn't what I enjoyed most about the book.

Many of the characters in Bad Teeth are just trying to work out what makes them happy and fulfilled and how to try and make that happen. I'm not sure that this a universal problem in our culture today, but I do think it's endemic among the sort of student/artist/intellectual class that makes up many of this book's cast of characters (and, I think I'd wager, its readership). In this way, it's a book about people trying to make sense of how to live their lives. Which I guess is a description that can probably be applied pretty fairly to almost all of literature.

This was what really spoke to me, because Mr. Long is superb in the brief moments of thoughtful contemplation that the events of the plot provoke.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Rare Quick and Deep Read
By Fritz Von Hauer on April 23, 2014
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Bad Teeth is a post-modern novel that isn't pretentious or self-indulgent. Whether you like them or not (a decision not forced on you by the author), the characters are real and knowable and unknowable in the ways that people can be known or unknown, respectively. The starkness with which the characters' depth manifest through their actions (physical actions or conscious thought) challenges the reader to make his or her own judgements about the world within the novel and the reader's own world. The author's use of language is masterful and there isn't a wasted word, even though not every word or seeming story arc leads to what you expect or, in some cases, anything specific. The patience, subtlety and intricacy of the novel are ambitious and, on that level, Bad Teeth accomplishes its goals. The sophomore effort of the author is raw and elegant in ways that makes me think that this may be his Ziggy Stardust in what I anticipate being a successful career.
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5.0 out of 5 starsReading for writers
By Katherine Sharpe on May 19, 2014
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There is a subset of works of fiction that I think of as 'books that make me want to write.' They are rare and special, and Dustin Long's 'Bad Teeth' is definitely one of them.

Other reviewers have covered the plot, but I'll add that the kaleidoscopic, shifting narrative, which jumps seamlessly from subjectivity to subjectivity and city to city, is a lot of fun to read, in part because it strikes me as having been fun to write; the author's love of words and ideas (and maybe of life itself) shines through.

People who've read Pynchon won't be able to miss a certain Pynchonesque flavor to the prose here; no doubt there are many other references that have sailed over my head. Proponents of a certain Brooklyn-based literary magazine may recognize parties they've attended.

'Bad Teeth' is a pleasure to read. The writing has a grace and ease that make it seem to have flowed onto the page painlessly and fully-formed, but anyone who's tried to write at all knows that such apparent seamlessness is the product of one combination only: hard work and mad skill.
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1.0 out of 5 starsBad Teeth

I was not impressed with this book. Basically this book is about a writer than no one is sure if he exists. Read more

Published 10 months ago by The Bookend Family
2.0 out of 5 starsLong is a good writer, this story didn't interest me

Too post-teen introspective for my tastes. Mr. Long is a good writer, this story didn't interest me.

Published 12 months ago by Robert Harrison
4.0 out of 5 stars... one thing you need to know about the novel Bad Teeth: Dustin Long...

There is only one thing you need to know about the novel Bad Teeth: Dustin Long has never, ever looked cool smoking a cigarette. Not even on accident. Read more

Published 17 months ago by Thomas Post
2.0 out of 5 starsI have read books that were disjointed and loved them. This book has...

I couldn't finish this book, it was that unimportant. The book goes on for hours meandering about with juvenile "coming of age" 20 somethings having or not having sex,... Read more

Published 20 months ago by Margaret Stewart
1.0 out of 5 starsKept hoping it would get better so I kept reading

I didn't see the point to it. Kept hoping it would get better so I kept reading. It did not.

Published 20 months ago by Katie Graziano
3.0 out of 5 starsThree Stars

This book was an OK read, but nothing too special.

Published 20 months ago by Myra
1.0 out of 5 starsOne Star

Uninteresting people. Premise unbelievable - could not finish

Published 21 months ago by Marion Simon
1.0 out of 5 starsNope.

The synopsis of this book made it sound pretty interesting...it's not. The plot goes nowhere, and the rambling paragraphs trying to be introspective just made me roll my eyes. Read more

Published 21 months ago by dang-armadillo
2.0 out of 5 starsA Struggle to Finish

I picked up this book because from the jacket description it sounded interesting. It was a fairly good read up until the Berkeley section and then I completely lost interest. Read more

Published 22 months ago by Stephen
1.0 out of 5 starsDisappointed

Terrible, depressing, I really detested this manner of writing.. It was a very sadistic & disconcerting .. I could not get past the first chapters

Published 22 months ago by Joyce Combs

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