Thanks to popular culture, everyone morphs into other people from time to time. What makes Tom Cho stand out is that he writes about his morphings, in a way entertaining and profound.

In the 18 stories/sections/chapters in this book, Cho draws on his experiences as a Chinese Australian fitting into mainstream culture by becoming something other than himself. In these fictions, his family are just as happy to join him on his journey.

Cho has a vivid imagination and he writes in a graphic way, graph More...

'Look Who's Morphing' is the debut collection by Melbourne writer, Tom Cho. In it, Cho employs humour and a bevy of pop culture references to deconstruct the concept of identity.

His prose style is simple, unadorned and has an almost childlike quality to it. In many of the stories, Cho analyses just how saturated with popular culture our Western lives have become. At various points, the identities of the protagonist/s become almost interchangeable with those of iconic pop culture characters (The More...

Really enjoyed the read, particularly the literal relationship chemistry between Johnny and Bruce, and all the familial scenes--interrupted via orc raiders or not.
Some lovely moments, and Tom's voice comes through very clearly.
Unlike one of the reviews noted in the blurb, however, I wouldn't have been able to read this, all so greedily, in one go--the voice is too strong. Even with great divergence in the subject, it still sounds the same. I wouldn't characterise this as a problem, however, inst More...

Look Who’s Morphing is a humorous collection that breaks rules and gets away with it.

Look Who’s Morphing is described as a “collection of fictions” by Melbourne writer Tom Cho and draws heavily from pop culture to create a collection of work that comments on identity and changing identity in a light and humorous way.

In a lot of the pieces, the narrator is referred to as ‘Tom Cho’ and due to the extravagance of some of the stories; the pieces can come across as Tom living out some his fantasies. More...

If you're 15-25 you'll likely love it - for the pop-culture identity crisis on every page. Bit past that in my 40's so I found it tough to get into and tough to keep going with. Persisted tho', and so it's scored 2-stars not 1, because I did giggle at the 'Chinese Names' and the 'suits' were a terrific idea too. Which I think is where Tom & I will meet on - terrific ideas, but not transported to my 40-something reality. I'll time-warp back to uni and read it again shall I ...?

My favourite read from 2009 - deliciously quirky and indulgent, yet surreptitiously subversive and profound. A bizarre exploration of our relationships with pop culture and how it forges our identities. I'm not doing it much justice with this review - just read it. :)

This is a 'who am I??!!’ self-reflective collection of short stories exploring gender, racial and cultural identity with a lot of pop culture references. i believe this book is post-post-postmodern if there's such thing?!

Short, funny bursts of imagination grappling with the concept of identity in a world overrun by pop culture. Quite unique and a quick read.

Loved the kind of stream-of-consciousness feel to this book. Not to mention the maelstrom of pop culture references. Got some good belly laughs as well.

Hugely entertaining and hilarious stories. Some of the best I've read in years

Hilarious, weird and awesome.

Hilarious.

It is indeed a wonderful, delightful, magical, crazy book. It contains short stories that read like pop culture dreams, full of shifting identities, physical transormations and outrageous hilarity. Ninjas! Transformers! Retellings of Dirty Dancing! It's got EVERYTHING.

fresh, funky, fantastic.

Hmm...I think I could have been a fan of this book if each story had taken me to a new morph rather than replying the same thing over and over.

If I could give negative stars, I would.