Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Revolting Youth: The Further Journals of Nick Twisp by C. D. Payne ISBN: 1-882647-15-7 Publisher: Aivia Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Hard to believe-- Ever BETTER than the original!
Comment: If you haven't read Youth in Revolt, please do. It will help a ton in understanding Revolting Youth. However, contrary to popular belief, you can still read Revolting Youth without having read YiR, and still find it hilarious. Just ask my mom.
Revolting Youth somehow manages to surpass YiR. Payne has mastered his craft and now effortlessly cranks out complicated and unexpected Twispian plot twists, with hilarious results.
Lots of crazy stuff goes down in this book. While Nick is doomed to suffer setbacks and rejections, he always mananges to come out on top. Sheeni is even more indifferent to him than before, but you can bet Nick finds his way into her . . . erm . . . heart. Or something like it. Fuzzy returns as Nick's best pal, who is consistently, albeit NOT stupidly, a true friend. Don't forget about Ukiah's most beautiful teen couple, Trent and Apurva, now married and expecting two babies, although only one of them is Apurva's. Yes, all your favorite characters are back, and some new crazies join in the madness.
Only one problem remains: Don't expect Payne to come out with another Nick Twisp adventure. It doesn't seem possible that he can equal or top this one.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must read!
Comment: Just when you think the life of Nick Twisp can't get any weirder, it does! Not only does Nick continue living as Carlotta in this highly anticipated sequel, but he takes on two more hilarious alter egos. And even through his penniless days Nick manages to get rid of his enemies and end up with the one thing he wants most- Sheeni. If you enjoyed the first book even a little bit, you must read Revolting Youth. It's even better!
Rating: 1
Summary: Disappointing disaster
Comment: I can't believe after reading this 300 page book that I would come back to see only positive reviews for it! This sequel was so terrible and so ludicrous and overall a waste of my time. As a big, big fan of the first one (the first book I'd choose to read while in the bathroom) I didn't think a sequel was necessary nor possible. I was right.
The plot is so absurd and such a mess it seems to me that CD Payne was coerced into writing a sequel (or maybe he just wanted to profit some more) and never had an ending in sight so he found himself writing into plot holes that could never be resolved except with things too absurd even for Twispian universe standards. His prose is different in this one too. Whereas the first one starts you off with a clear and vivid description of Nick, his mom, Jerry, etc and the brilliant recaptures of his date with Sheeni with Jerry and his mom, to his spying on Lefty, to meeting Fuzzy and Apurva, this time it seems like the characters are forced to meet each other, and can't get out of their predicaments unless some Divine Intervention occurs. There is not a funny moment in this book; it just cycles into the absurd and introduces so many characters it becomes annoying. I know the pattern in the first book was the same too; Lefty is a major player in the first one then suddenly disappears as Fuzzy and Vijay take over the spotlight; in this one, you go from Connie (?!?!) to Dogo and back again.
But in this book, when CD Payne creates a new character, by what else, Plastic Surgery (What the F***??!), I couldn't believe it. Nick goes to Mexico to get plastic surgery? I mean, geez, dressing up as Carlotta is reasonable, but this is just retarded, even for the Twispian world. This book is just so unbelievabe, the characters don't even seem to believe what they are saying because Payne is lost and seems to have forgotten how these characters would talk; its just one absurdity after another--and not only is it absurd in general, it's contradictory that these old characters would do the same things (Paul is no longer as ominous and Vijay no longer as conniving. Could you imagine Sheeni from the first book saying the same things?). The first one is just flat out better--the dialogue and Tarantino-esque situations are genius yet believable at least.
Revolting Youth seems forced and that it was written by an aspiring 11th grader submitting something to his AP English teacher. Also, if you'll notice, the reviews on this book are FOR YOUTH IN REVOLT. Interesting that there's not a single praise for Revolting Youth on REVOLTING YOUTH ITSELF. The botton line is, the first one was pure classic, impossible to top, and this just proves it.
 |
Title: Cut to the Twisp by C. D. Payne ISBN: 1882647033 Publisher: Aivia Press Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
 |
Title: Youth in Revolt by C.D. PAYNE ISBN: 0385481969 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 15 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
 |
Title: Frisco Pigeon Mambo by C. D. Payne ISBN: 1882647246 Publisher: Aivia Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
 |
Title: Queen of America: A Royal Comedy in Three Acts by C. D. Payne ISBN: 1882647106 Publisher: Aivia Pr Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
 |
Title: Civic Beauties by C. D. Payne ISBN: 1882647203 Publisher: Aivia Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
