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Title: A Crack Up at the Race Riots by Harmony Korine ISBN: 0385485883 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.81
Rating: 5
Summary: great book. buy it
Comment: Someone called this a postmodernist novel. I don't think so. It's not a novel. It's an old form, the laundry list appropriated for literary purposes. Narrative glue that normally binds the ideas in a novel is entirely missing. It's like Korine went about recording little snippets of thought and conversations on scraps of paper, then pulled them all together and arranged them by topic like suicide notes, overheard conversations, movie ideas etc. It's like a found object collage. Chapter titles are the only hint at what Korine is thinking.
But ultimately, we're on our own when it comes to tying all the scraps together. It's kind of looking at small tiles on a bathroom floor. Sooner or later you'll start seeing patterns.
But Korine's selection of scraps is not random. Korine collects among the lower classes. He gives the podium to people who don't normally have a voice in our culture, people who may or may not have jobs, people with no concern for political correctness.
And I think that this is where Korine deserves 5 stars. He makes us look at people we don't normally want to look at. He doesn't glamorize them, he doesn't apologize for them. He simply holds up the mirror and makes us look at them. He reminds us that not everyone gets to realize the American dream.
As for postmodernism or new literary forms, I think Korine got something going. Ideas in most modern literature are way too sparse. You have to wade through way too much narrative and plot to get at the few good ideas, insights, images. Korine simply throws out the ideas, images, lets you wander about and create your own picture.
Bless the lad, buy his book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Harmony Korine can do no wrong.
Comment: I still think his work is all based on a joke-- Gummo, obviously, has to be, and the response to Kids was absolutely hilarious. Crackup is sort of the same in that I think he's just seeing how we react. Korine is a keen observer of culture (isn't that what Kids was, after all?), and I liken him to Kurt Vonnegut in a lot of ways. So, read the book and enjoy and wonder, like I do, what Harmony thinks of our reaction to his work-- Maybe he's just testing us, eh?
Rating: 4
Summary: eminem was in a wendy's commerical when he was 12
Comment: crack up at the race riots is part scrapbook, part videologue all in one. pieces of scripts, part conversations, fake rumors and ideas all writen by harmony korine (writer of Kids and writer director of Gummo and Julian Donkey Boy). Sometimes you don't know whether to laugh or wonder if you're the butt of a joke (who pays for half writen lines anyway? me.) but it all ends up nicely. as a peek into the head of a genius.
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Title: Pass the Bitch Chicken: Christopher Wool & Harmony Korine by Harmony Korine, Christopher Wool ISBN: 3935567022 Publisher: Holzwarth Publications Pub. Date: 15 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title:Julien Donkey-Boy ASIN: B000059HA5 Publisher: New Line Studios Pub. Date: 20 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $22.48 |
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Title: Tulsa by Larry Clark ISBN: 0802137482 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 30 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title:Gummo ASIN: B000059HA8 Publisher: New Line Studios Pub. Date: 20 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $22.48 |
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Title: Alabama Wildman by Thurston Moore ISBN: 0934953708 Publisher: Water Row Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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