Geek Love
A carnival family saves its traveling "Carnival Fabulon" from bankruptcy by giving birth to freaks—in a "Ripley's Believe It or Not" world. A National Book Award nominee.
A carnival family saves its traveling "Carnival Fabulon" from bankruptcy by giving birth to freaks—in a "Ripley's Believe It or Not" world. A National Book Award nominee.
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780375713347
Publish date: 28-06-2002
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Edition language: English
I am very perplexed by this book. It took me over 100 pages to get into it. And in fact it was only when one of the Binewski's was injured by his younger brother that I started to take to it.I must say I was really into the characters, they were so oddly demented that their total unbelieveableness e...
Grotesque like Chuck but not as well written. I felt like the author was using big words sometimes just to prove herself, I'm not fooled. Ending was flat and throughout the whole story, there was nothing to look forward to - No plot line that made me want to turn pages. I finished this book because ...
The large cast of characters and some early jumps in chronology make GEEK LOVE initially jarring, enough to potentially keep some readers from continuing. But the persistent reader will be rewarded, as the family dynamics explored among a cast of side-show freaks is at times morbidly interesting, at...
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