Karl's review
Hairstyles of the Damned
by Joe Meno
Karl's review
Hairstyles of the Damned by Joe Meno
Karl's review
rating:
Eh... Teens searching for themselves in early 90's Chicago. A weird blend of Nick Hornby ('High Fidelity': The art of making a mix tape) and a John Hughes film (teens in Chicago and "I'm in love with my best friend who has no clue about it.") The book centers on a metal head loser who, as his home and friends breakdown, discovers the Misfits and becomes a punk nihilist and skater. Some of the writing annoyed me (All punctuation and sentence structure be damned!) with long run on sentences in an attempt to mimic speech. Kerouac tried the same thing and a lot of his writing annoys me as well. In the end, it seemed like a lot to boil down the main theme of the book... that punks, with their dress code and code of ethics are pretty much exactly the same as the jocks, nerds, and geeks that surround them. All use dress as a way of belonging. That we should look past that and get to know the person inside. Yeah right... a 16 year old will understand that. Dream on.
