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10 reviews
Amanda Boyden

Knopf Canada, 2008

Babylon Knowing
I'm not sure if I read the same novel as another, less favorable, reviewer. Cinematically, I thought of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, where critical mass is reached by seemingly small circumstances. I taught English to kids just like Fearius, and Boyden's representation of Nola's dialect [and the checkerboard neighborhoods] sounds dead-on to me. Sometimes a keen ear or eye comes from an author ...

Pretty Little Dirty

22 reviews
Amanda Boyden

Vintage, 2006

You have to live it...
The most common problem for people who read this book and hated it is the fact that they have not encountered any of the things that Boyden talks about in her novel. Normally, you don't have to relate to a book to be able to enjoy it. But Boyden explores the intoxicatingly dangerous world of "sex, drugs, and rock and roll" of a teenage girl. It is almost impossible to understand some of the ...