Tideland
by Mitch Cullin
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Read in October, 2007
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surrealists
I enjoyed this book a lot. Quick read; managed to finish it in one day, interspersed with a full workday and a 3 hour linguisitics class. The narrative voice of Jeliza-Rose drew me in right away, and in my ling class, something was said about "the language of metaphor" that seemed very applicable to the book and specifically Jeliza-Rose's narration. Now I can't quite articulate it. Basically, J-R uses "A is B" metaphors signifying her childlike acceptance of the metaphori...more
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Read in May, 2007
I really liked this. There just seemed to be lots of great images floating around. Surprisingly for such a short book, it seemed to move quite slow. This wasn`t a problem for me. Seeing the world and the imagination of the protagonist develop was great. Strangly, the shocks in the book - and it's really dark in places - don't shock at all! I think the author was writing incredibly well from the perspective of the child, who doesn`t understand what she's seeing and creates her own fantasies based...more
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Read in January, 2005
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I swear that my brother John was obsessed with this book a few years ago. He would not stop bugging me to read it. I finally got a hold of a copy and tore through it. Tideland is a disturbing coming-of-age story. The main character, Jeliza Rose invents her own fantasy world as a means of escaping her difficult reality in which both of her parents are junkies.
Tideland was recently made into a movie by Terry Gilliam. The movie isn't quite as good as the novel, but it does captu...more
Tideland was recently made into a movie by Terry Gilliam. The movie isn't quite as good as the novel, but it does captu...more
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Read in April, 2008
Sounds like a lot of people who saw the film first didn't like the book, but I enjoyed it so much I read it in one evening. I actually think I enjoyed it more because I saw the film before reading the book. Things that might have been confusing were perfectly clear with Gilliam's interpretation.
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Read in August, 2007
This was one of the strangest books (and movie) I've ever encountered. I think the idea was good, but the writing should have been better - more delicate, if that's helpful at all - for it to really deliver in the way that I would have liked.
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This book is incredible, but wait until you see the movie. Truly mentally disturbing. I didn't sleep all night, and this is not a horror film. Everyone needs to see this.
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I loved this movie. The book is pretty similar so far, but with a little more of a back story. I wish I had read it before I saw the movie.
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Brilliant, the last paragraph alone makes the entire book worthwhile, though you should avoid the film like the plague
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I saw this film over the summer and it was brilliantly magical in both its beauty and depravity!
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Read in December, 2007
i love it so far, makes me miss home and highway 123
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avg rating (all editions): 3.74 (70 ratings) avg rating (this edition): 3.71 (56 ratings) number of reviews: 11popular shelves
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"On my first evening in the back country, I skipped down the porch steps of the farmhouse-leaving my father inside and the radio playing and my small suitcase decorated with neon flower stickers unpacked-and wandered towards the upside-down school bus I'd spied from an upstairs window."
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