The Hypocrisy of Disco: A Memoir
by Clane Hayward (Goodreads author!)
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Read in April, 2008
This book was recommended/loaned to me from a couple of friends in San Francisco who know Clane in a different context.
It's a gripping account of the author's early adolescent life, without being overly self-indulgent in the way that many modern popular memoirs seem to be (Angela's Ashes, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The Glass Castle). The language employed is easily reflective of Clane's mindset while entrenched in these experiences, and though represents a cursory glance of ...more
It's a gripping account of the author's early adolescent life, without being overly self-indulgent in the way that many modern popular memoirs seem to be (Angela's Ashes, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The Glass Castle). The language employed is easily reflective of Clane's mindset while entrenched in these experiences, and though represents a cursory glance of ...more
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Read in August, 2007
I shouldn't have waited so long with it in my nightstand drawer, indecisive about what to read next. I am loving it. Before I knew it, I was on page ninety-six and absolutely couldn’t put it down! I spent half my Sunday reading this book, regardless of the obligations requiring my attention.
While exploring young Clane’s world, I discovered (with both reverence and disdain) emotions, fragrances, tastes and textures not previously contemplated by myself. I will not look at a field, a rive...more
While exploring young Clane’s world, I discovered (with both reverence and disdain) emotions, fragrances, tastes and textures not previously contemplated by myself. I will not look at a field, a rive...more
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Read in February, 2008
recommends it for:
hippies who want to have children.
A distressing memoir of the author's hippie childhood, complete with spaced-out macrobiotic mother and redneck father. While the book only spans two years, from the time the author is 11 until her 13th birthday, it was enough to completely quash any of the romantic fantasies I had as a child about living the carefree life of a flower child.
Clane and her brother suffered various degrees of abusive neglect under the care of parents, grandparents and family friends. I was amazed by the author'...more
Clane and her brother suffered various degrees of abusive neglect under the care of parents, grandparents and family friends. I was amazed by the author'...more
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Read in November, 2007
The most interesting things about this book, to me, are that I met Clane at a summer barbecue at a friend's house (and she seemed very sharp and well-adjusted) and that she writes about living in Monte Rio and elsewhere in Sonoma County during the 70's.
Having lived in Monte Rio myself, it's really fascinating to hear about how it was then. Being the strangest place I've ever lived, Monte Rio has a sort of ghost town feeling to it.
Aside from summer river-goers, the regular population of twea...more
Having lived in Monte Rio myself, it's really fascinating to hear about how it was then. Being the strangest place I've ever lived, Monte Rio has a sort of ghost town feeling to it.
Aside from summer river-goers, the regular population of twea...more
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Read in May, 2008
This book is frightening. For someone from my generation, hippies mean free love, peace and pot. What could go wrong, right? Well, this memoir, written by a child of a hippie, exposes the ugly shadow side of that generation's idealized world. There have been irresponsible parents and neglected children in every generation, I'm sure. But in this case, the adults explain and even justify the situation with the beliefs and fads of the time. The author is a sensitive child and throughout the book I ...more
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Read in July, 2008
First Diary of A Teenage Girl and now this. What is happening to me? It is all female memoirs remembering the 70s. Thus far, this book is rather interesting especially in the way it confuses the reader with the chaotic anonymity of the hippie commune, the sensual details of a child's perspective, and the intense invasion of the individual by the social inherent in communal life. This is a different 70s, deeply hippie influenced. I find the dogmatism of the parents very funny although I feel the ...more
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Read in May, 2008
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Kristinerecommends it for: People who like memoirs
For me the book was a cross between the Glass Castle and Hypocrite in a Poofy White Dress. I love coming of age stories and memoirs. I inevitably always discover that it's good to look at the world through a child's eyes whenever we can. What seem like great lifestyle choices for ourselves may not always be healthy for us or others. It seems children always bear the brunt of our mistakes. I was happy to learn the career path the author took.
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The synopsis on the book's cover leads you to believe that this is a memoir about growing up on hippy communes. No. This is a memoir of a girl who spent only part of her childhood with a hippy, macrobiotic, food-stamp-collecting mother, and who spent the remainder of her childhood with her white trash father, then her middle class grandparents. While mildly entertaining, this book was nothing that it purported to be.
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Read in February, 2008
this is my best book of recent memory.. Hippi childhood gone wrong, children who have to fend for themselves, living at a campgrond eating macrobiotic food. LORDY! It never ends for Clane, daughter of Claude and H'lane, if you can catch my drift.
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Read in September, 2007
Wow. This book made me think of a friend, but this is extreme living on a whole nother level. Makes you think about capitalism too and how you can't escape it, even if you live in the f'ing woods.
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Read in May, 2008
Sort of like The Glass Castle. Good, but I was a bit disappointed in the abrupt end. I'd like to know how she got to where she is today and what her current family relationships are like.
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Read in February, 2008
This was the most thoughtful, beautifully written, true, heart breaking, memoir I have ever read. I urge everyone who knows me to read it! It will take you one day. Maybe two.
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Read in October, 2007
Meandering memoir of a sucky childhood with the hippies. Reminded me of what I hated about being a kid, but the story never drew me in.
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Read in January, 2008
The is is a fascinating memoir of a childhood in California communes during the 70's. I want to keep reading to see how she survives!
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Read in January, 2008
I know this person and this book makes me love her so much more than I already did. It's brilliant and funny! You have to read it!
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Read in December, 2007
Downright rotten. For a memoir of a teenage girl in a very unique situation, this was a terribly boring, unemotional book.
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Great insight from a child trying to figure out what is different. A lovely first novel. Go Clane!
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Read in June, 2007
i didnt expect this to be as good as it was. very well written; good beach book.
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Read in January, 2008
recommends it for:
someone in the Tucker clan
Makes you realize that your childhood wasn't that hard after all.
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Read in December, 2007
a good san francisco/northern california book! desolate.
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