- Paperback: 244 pages
- Publisher: Eraserhead Press (August 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0972959866
- ISBN-13: 978-0972959865
- Product Dimensions: 21.9 x 15.9 x 1.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 313 g
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MY FLING WITH BETTY PAGE: Imagine a world where the Japanese retaliate in the 1940s by dropping their own twin A-bombs on Los Angeles and San Diego. Welcome to The Bubble: a self-contained universe created by that blast known as Los Diegos, where everything is five minutes away, no one ages, and no one dies. Imagine you're a private eye hired to find the rare Betty Page stamp, but stumbling on the truth of reality, and the interdimensional aliens who wish to destroy it. A response to Alfred Jarry's final and unpublished novel of pataphysics, My Fling With Betty Page asks the question: "Do you ever feel that somewhere, somehow, a duck is secretly watching you?" and even gives the answer. YELLOW #10: Meet twin sisters Susan and Sharon, extracted straight out of Disney's The Parent Trap (itself extracted from German children's author Erich Kastner's Das Doppelte Lottchen). Unlike Disney's series of self-congratulatingly "uproarious" sequels starring Hayley Mills, Yellow #10 catches those rascally Baby Boomer twins full in the throes of a 1990s-style adolescent identity crisis, where anti-depressants, confessional poetry, cry-for-help suicides, and the constipated rhythms of pre-teen sex are set to the sticky-sweet backbeat of pre-millennial pop music.
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Did I miss the point?, Mar 14 2005
By Dying in August "Junkie" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: My Fling with Betty Page/Yellow #10 (Paperback)
First off, Michael Hemingson's My Fling With Betty Page was awesome. A very entertaining story set in a strange universe, laced with humor and great references. Very well written I will definitely check out more of his writing. Next off, Yellow #10. I liked it and I didn't like it. The writing was creative and flowed well and it was different. It was actually the first book I have read in a while which actually pushes the boundries of how a book should be written. On the other hand I did not really get anything out of it other than that. It stayed with me as long as I was with it and no longer. I will probably read it again though just for the pleasurable experience of reading it.
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