false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166113300m/10050.jpg 10050 5 Told as the diary of an oversexed 14-year-old, this three-part comic-novel deals with the usual adolescent bugbears: divorced parents, rebellion, virginity. Set in the cultural wasteland of trailer-park northern California, the episodic plot involves arson, car theft, police brutality and more. Nick tries to win an even more precocious girl his age, Sheeni Saunders, by means of allusive letters and screwball schemes which eventually backfire. Payne gives his narrator an overblown literary voice that contrasts with the attendant embarrassments of his age (e.g., the problems of finding a place to masturbate privately in an R.V.), but the narrative strains for comedic effect. With its Woody Allen-like punch lines, double entendres and overall high-school atmosphere, the novel reads like YA fiction: a nihilist Daniel Pinkwater. And for all Nick's intellectual pretension and artificial speech (qualities echoed, oddly, by nearly all the teen-aged characters), he seems devoid of imagination or any redeeming qualities; nor does he care about anything other than satisfying his pubescent desires. And, though in the book's final third the boy comes alive in his drag persona of Carlotta (and Payne admirably brings home his convoluted plot), it is too late to revitalize an ultimately unsympathetic hero. (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>) 40448 15 3 1996 Youth in Revolt total:1698|5:766|4:549|3:288|2:71|1:24| 1698 7056 2288 318 5 3 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Thu May 31 10:54:30 -0700 2007 Thu May 31 15:17:15 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Mar 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 20:00:46 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 09 20:32:24 -0700 2008
This boy meets girl plot centers on Nick, a bookish, sex-crazed 14-year-old, and...more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Sat Mar 15 00:53:30 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 15 00:59:42 -0700 2008
This book was MY book. For years I begged people to read it because I wanted them to feel the obsession.

It is extremely important that all teenagers/adults read this book. The characters are totally absurd and...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 04 07:25:44 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 07:33:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 14:31:40 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 15:17:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Apr 24 06:15:34 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 10:29:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 06:11:01 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 14:27:53 -0700 2009 Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal. Before that, I don't even remember. But now, I have a list ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Mar 05 09:28:42 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 09:28:51 -0800 2009
Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp is an hilarious “coming of age”

novel about growing up. Nick Twisp, a thirteen, turning fourteen year old, writes

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Intellectually, I disliked the book almost immediately for the complete ridiculousness of its situations (calamity after calamity: bullet-riddled BMWs to multi-...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 06:01:58 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 09:23:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed May 27 13:48:27 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 13:59:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Oct 20 07:38:13 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 17 10:26:17 -0800 2009
It's clearly a brilliant piece of work. Nick Twisp is a nearly pitch-perfect representation of the self-centered sociopathy and absurd arrogance of the intelligent teenager, taken to the nth degree. What American Psycho's Patrick Bateman was to disaff...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 04 18:00:52 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 18:04:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 14 20:30:43 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 17:23:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 08:25:58 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 09:12:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 06:36:28 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 05:02:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 29 15:05:27 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 08:35:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 true false Wed Mar 05 13:05:11 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 13:05:48 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Wed Jun 17 10:40:03 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 19:11:47 -0700 2009 countless
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