Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers
by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
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Oh this book was so creative!! It is just vast in its immensity and scope! I put it on the bookshelf right between Herman Melville and Vladamir Nabokov even though thats not alphabetical order. I Don't care! It deserves its place amongst the great ones!! Maybe "Moby Dick", "A Tale of Two Cities"...and "Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers"!! Hmmmmmm. I love reading books written in Pidgen English about bratty young children going through adolescence. I also particularly ...more
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I am usually turned off when a book's title is followed by ": A Novel," but in this case, I'm not even sure it qualifies on technical grounds.
I really, really, really could not stand this book. I felt bad about how much I hated it. Am I an elitist? Am I not a compassionate person? Have I no tolerance for people who have cultural/social/intellectual problems coupled with uninteresting personalities? The author didn't bring anything new to the table. It was the same story we've all he...more
I really, really, really could not stand this book. I felt bad about how much I hated it. Am I an elitist? Am I not a compassionate person? Have I no tolerance for people who have cultural/social/intellectual problems coupled with uninteresting personalities? The author didn't bring anything new to the table. It was the same story we've all he...more
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Read in November, 2007
recommends it for:
teens; anyone traveling to Hawaii
Sweet coming of age tale of a third generation Japanese Hawaiian girl growing up in the 1970's. Lovey's father who grew up on the plantation is always scheming to make money - from rabbits to collecting feathers for leis - and Lovey thinks she wants nothing more than to have a nice white picket fence, nothing second hand and have a haole name. When her dad is injured in a hunting accident, Lovey finally understands the messages her dad has been quietly teaching her - about being proud of where...more
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Read in May, 2008
I enjoyed the book, but it read more like a collection of stories than a novel. The only reason it was a novel is because the title says so. The short stories only cross-linked a few times. I liked the use of the Hawai'ian pidgin/creole, and it was fun to read while visiting the islands. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone, but especially folks going over for a visit. nice perspective that you can't get on vacation.
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I really liked this book, although it challenged me in ways I didn't expect. I'm not a fan of books written in dialect, so I struggled with that at first. Ultimately, the use of the pidgin english enhanced the tale. I was having so many memories of childhood while reading it, not all of them pleasant.
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Read in May, 2004
Funny, heart-breaking and sometimes gritty recollections back to middle school years. So specific to the character, and yet I would think that most anyone would be able to relate. Vivid descriptions; I felt like I could see, hear, smell it all.
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Read in August, 1998
One of my favorite books about a young Japanese American girl coming of age in Hawaii. It's written in a very readable Hawaiian pidgin. My favorite chapter is "Obituary" and I use it with my students every year.
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I loved this book. It was a great insite into the Hawaiian culture. It really took me back. Some stories are so familiar to my own upbringing. Maybe you will have the same experience and laugh hard too.
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Read in January, 1995
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women
an amazing, raw, touching coming-of-age story of a teen-age girl in Hawaii. The most fun you'll have with vernacular/pidgen since Huck Finn or Clockwork Orange!
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Read in January, 1996
Hilarious. You will not stop laughing. Remember Donny Osmond and his purple socks? Just a little tease.
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Japanese-American girl comes of age in white-dominated Hawaii. This book taught me the term "haole."
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Read in January, 1996
Lots of pidgin Hawaiian. I love pidgin.
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