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Title: Twisted Kicks by Tom Carson ISBN: 0-934558-28-0 Publisher: Entwhistle Books Pub. Date: July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: "It's not what you mean, it's how it sounds."
Comment: "Twisted Kicks" is no less than one of the great novels of our (or anyone's) time. I've read it many times and it never fails to thrill and delight me. This amazing book chronicles the lives of several diverse characters in the mythical town of Icarus, VA in the late 70's-early 80's. An almost perfect time-capsule of the druggy mixture of boredom and glam that was so many teen's lives at that time. Because the style of the novel itself is slightly surrealistic, the reader really seems to feel and experience the characters confusion, giddiness and disenchantment with themselves and their world. This is the only book I've ever read where every single person seems believable and directly drawn from life (I think I've MET some of these guys!). I really can't recommend it highly enough...I know it changed my life, and books like that are rare indeed. Completely Brilliant!

Rating: 2
Summary: A self important time capsule
Comment: A series of characters, who may as well all be fragments & aspects of the same person (the author), suffer angst. Set in the early eighties, in small town America the primary characters all seem to be suffering early twenty somethings, with the exception of two equally shallow, angst ridden adults. At times the prose is jerky, & difficult to follow, however "Twisted Kicks" has it's moments, just not that many. Adolescent & a little too limited in it's world view.