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The great strength of her writing is her refusal to offer judgement about her parent's neglect--maybe she didn't even see it that way. Here's a reasonable review from Publishers Weekly Starred Review. "Walls doesn't pull her punches. She opens her memoir by describing looking out the window of her taxi, wondering if she's 'overdressed for the evening' and spotting her mother on the sidewalk, 'rooting through a Dumpster.' Walls's parents—just two of the unforgettable characters in this excellent, unusual book—were a matched pair of eccentrics, and raising four children didn't conventionalize either of them. Her father was a self-taught man, a would-be inventor who could stay longer at a poker table than at most jobs and had 'a little bit of a drinking situation,' as her mother put it. With a fantastic storytelling knack, Walls describes her artist mom's great gift for rationalizing."
Got to read this with my daughter. It's like reliving childhood again!
The single most frightening book I ever read. Bradbury wrote this in 1950/53. How could he have known??? The most frightening thing to me is that the government did not impose the No Books thing. The people gave the books up on their own to watch interactive reality shows on wall size televisions or listen to their Ipods. The people gave up books because they cause pain...they make people feel things. In my own experience, I have asked several friends who are big Oprah fans if they read her book selections. They all said they do not because they are too depressing...they make you feel things. Easier to turn on the boob tube and go numb. Turn off the tv. Ditch the Ipod. Then grab a book because there's dew on the grass in the morning.