The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (727 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B001U8T3E0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 409 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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John Morelli said Good. Weird. Good. Weird. Really weird. One part seemed really, really unnecessary and overly graphic, but it was good overall and pretty damn funny at times.. "Relatable if you went to art school." according to Amazon Customer. Some funny parts. The protagonist student and antagonist art professor are entertaining, but the bohemian girlfriend is over the top to the point of being tiresome. The writing is good, but the storyline is fractured.. "A breath of fresh air" according to Andrew B. Leadford. Fantastic. Ne,w original, creative, keeps you going yet at the same time is a light enough read that you can enjoy it while camping/in the car/on the bus to and from wherever you're going.Kidd's writing is beautiful. It flows in such a natural current, a hypnotic joining of letters and punctuation that just saying the sentences out loud turns novel to poetry.Great characters, interesting plot, and something excitingly new and inventive in a world that is leaning towards rehashing the same plot over and over and over.
The Cheese Monkeys is a college novel that takes place over a tightly written two semesters. The book is set in the late 1950s at State U, where the young narrator, has decided to major in art, much to his parents’ dismay. After 15 years of designing more than 1,500 book jackets at Knopf for such authors as Anne Rice and Michael Chrichton, Kidd has crafted an affecting an entertaining novel set at a state university in the late 1950s that is both slap-happily funny and heartbreakingly sad. It is an autobiographical, coming-of-age novel which tells universally appealing stories of maturity, finding a calling in life, and being inspired by a loving, demanding, and highly eccentric teacher.
From Library Journal A sharp, fast-paced, and well-packaged academic satire, along the lines of James Hyne's The Lecturer's Tale (LJ 12/00), this is a coming-of-age story from the point of view of the paying victim (a.k.a. That should assure his first novel a healthy amount of publicity with attendant demand. the student). For all larger public libraries and for art schools everywhere. No wonder he becomes enthralled by the charms of one Himillsy Dodd, a free spirit and the only other enrollee in the still-life course who seems to know the meaning of "detumescent." The following semester, the duo find themselves in Art 127: Introduction to Commercial Art, and