<![CDATA[The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters]]>

false <![CDATA[The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167956353m/28756.jpg 28756 8 From People Who Liked It "It is rare for a book to produce uncontrollable laughter as loud as this one did. The narrator is at art college in the 1950s, and after failing to get the courses he wants, finds himself attending 'Introduction to Graphic Design,' taught by the inspiring, sadistic, and compelling Professor Winter Sorbeck. Through humiliation and excess he shows his naive young charges how to see the world through new eyes. This is a brilliantly entertaining debut -- intelligent, pitch-perfect, and enlightening." -- The Times (London) This story about growing up and finding your calling is funny and, almost despite itself, moving. Here the big ideas -- about growing, working, loving -- are all inside." -- New York Times Book Review An irresistible comic voice that sounds so modern, and so right, even as it re-creates the undergraduate life of the late 1950s." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Channeling Holden Caulfield via David Sedaris, Kidd produces a stellar debut." -- Publishers Weekly "A Joyride." -- Miami Herald Not only is [The Cheese Monkeys] sharp and funny, it's also one of the year's most original American novels." -- Toronto Globe and Mail From People Who Didn't "Retro kitsch. Thoroughly sophomoric." -- Entertainment Weekly "The first section veers dangerously towards the predictable. Kidd has a way to go before his literary skills equal his artistic genius." -- Time Out (New York) 1363319 2001 The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters total:1788|5:387|4:670|3:537|2:151|1:43| 1788 6571 2321 321 3 10 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Mar 18 21:36:53 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 03 21:39:39 -0700 2007
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I've heard a lot of critics say that it's extremely predictable and it sort of is in that "crazy teacher t...more...]]> 2 2 false false Fri Sep 19 13:28:30 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 30 06:52:23 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 19 13:28:30 -0700 2008
Every paragraph feels like a high school descriptive writing assignment. Kidd's overuse of metaphors...more...]]> 1 1 false false Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 03 06:37:10 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 19 12:30:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 20:36:05 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 21:22:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 13 06:57:37 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 14:00:33 -0700 2008
This book is kind of like if you took Donna Tartt, Thomas Pynchon, David Sedaris, J.D. Salinger, and all those ep...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 22 12:22:49 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 22 13:46:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 08:40:05 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 29 16:29:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Aug 25 21:25:12 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 25 21:27:18 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 12:40:21 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 15:02:44 -0700 2009
I can't decide at all what I thought of it. It was the story of an art major's first year at college....more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 20:53:44 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 21:03:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 08:11:10 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 07:35:13 -0800 2009 Chip Kidd's work as a graphic designer. In fact, the cover to Soon I Will Be Invincible was designed by him. I was a little leery of Kidd as a fiction writer, but Nache loved the book, so I gave it a try.
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