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Title: Locas by Yxta Maya Murray ISBN: 0-8021-3564-1 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: We get it already! Gang life is not glamorous!
Comment: This book is nothing new. It's your typical storyline with an obvious problem, a goal, and a very predictable ending. The only difference is that the story is told from the perspective of two girls, which if you're already familiar with southern California gang stories is a complete spin-off from the movie Mi Vida Loca. In fact, if you were to combine the movie Blood In Blood Out with Mi Vida Loca, you would get this book. The good part about Locas was that even though I was one step ahead of the story the entire time, I did keep an interest in it. So by no means is this a slow paced book. Besides the lack of inspiration behind this novel, my only grievance with it is this: the book is narrated in the first person by two girls (Cecilia and Lucia). Since neither of the two really had much of an education, especially Lucia, Murray seems to have purposely squeezed in a few grammar errors to illustrate her lack of education. That's great because the reader can create a better image of who exactly the person is who is telling the story. However, if Lucia is supposed to be poorly educated and Murray wanted to show that in her writing, then she has to be consistent with it. I seriously doubt that a high school drop out from Echo Park is capable of constructing a quote like, "When I'm listening to them jumping sounds I start seeing that same picture again, there's Star Girl on the grass, smiling up at me with the fog in her breath twining up in the night air with mine." Other than that it wasn't too horrible. I'd recomend this book if you have a lot of time to kill. Otherwise just rent Mi Vida Loca and see the same thing.
Rating: 2
Summary: Enforce Your Latina Stereotypes Here
Comment: This novel does not depict the reality of the mean streets. What was Murray thinking when she wrote this in a first person voice? Murray herself states that she had no real experience of the gangster life. She wrote what she imagined was a girl's life as a gangster. How much research did she do before she wrote this novel?! None, if you ask me. Her attempts to present the daily life of someone caught up in this world are cute.
Rating: 1
Summary: locas too loco
Comment: ordered this by mistake!
anyone want it? I am not capable of getting interested in gang life...so many other topics.
although it is an integral part of the mexican history...it is not interesting enough for me to read about.
i feel for anyone who is in a gang or who is influenced by gang presence in their neighborhoods.
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Title: 8 Ball Chicks: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangsters by Gini Sikes ISBN: 0385474326 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Always Running by Luis Rodriguez ISBN: 0671882317 Publisher: Touchstone Pub. Date: 09 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King (Illinois) by Reymundo Sanchez ISBN: 1556524277 Publisher: Chicago Review Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Once a King, Always a King: The Unmaking of a Latin King by Reymundo Sanchez ISBN: 1556525052 Publisher: Chicago Review Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Republic of East LA : Stories by Luis J. Rodriguez ISBN: 006093686X Publisher: Rayo Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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