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Critics say the novel "wears a sort of KICKME sign" (Walter Kirn, New York ) in its baldfaced self-plagiarism and, worse, "it's never clear if we are meant to ridicule, pity, or envy" the characters (A.O.
(Read Kirn's review here.)
Mainly negative takes on book reviewer Kirn's coming-of-age novel about a troubled 14-year-old boy who tries to replace his thumb-sucking habit with various other crutches, including smoking, drinking, and Ritalin.
Defenders call it a "largely episodic collection of great moments that aren't all causally linked in that comforting way we're used to" (Yahlin Chang, Newsweek ). Tom Wolfe, who attacked the book in the literary magazine Biblio on the basis of its title--without having read a word of the manuscript--draws a stinging retort from Kirn in the latest issue of Tin House , in which he writes a lovely parody of a negative review for his own book: "I consider it my duty as the author of this offensive work, to carry even further Wolfe's condemnation in hopes of neutralizing, from the start, a potentially harmful literary contagion."
Richard Eder writes in the New York Times Book Review that though "Kirn is a frequently sparkling tour guide" through the teen-ager's life, "[w]e get no sense ...