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Binding: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: July 01, 2005
Sales Rank: 773104
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Beth Lisick started out as a homecoming princess with a Crisco-aided tan and a bad perm. And then everything changed. How exactly did this suburban girl next door end up as one of San Francisco's foremost chroniclers of alternative culture, touring as the only straight woman with a band of punk rock lesbian poets and living in illegal warehouses -- all while managing to get married, buy a house, and have a baby? Lisick explains it all in her hilarious, irreverent memoir Everybody into the Pool.
Plunging headlong into America's deepest subcultures, while keeping both feet firmly planted in her parents' Leave It to Beaver values, Lisick makes her adult home on the fringe of mainstream culture and finds it rich with paradox and humor. On one hand, she lives in "Brokeley" with drug dealers and street gangs; on the other, she drives a station wagon with a car seat in the back, makes her own chicken stock, and attends ladies' luncheons.
Among Lisick's true tales are "My Way or the Bi-Way," in which a series of girl-on-girl fiascos from UC Santa Cruz confirm her suspicions that she's just a straight girl with a positive attitude who'd give anything the old college try; "The Lowly Hustle," in which she takes on a litany of odd jobs to make ends meet ("I was like a college student designing my own major, except I was thirty-five and designing my own minimum-wage job"); and the endearing story of her "courtship" with her now husband Eli, who impresses her with a spastic rendition of a song called "The Wack-Ass Caucasian Two Step Chicken" and invites her to his Mission District warehouse space -- a world of feral raccoons and exploding sewage pipes. (It's clear to Lisick that he's "The One.")
Fans of David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell will relish Lisick's scathingly funny, smart, and very real take on the effluvia of daily living. No matter what community she's exposing to the light, Lisick's hilarious perspective always hits the right chord.
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You'd never believe that a story about stealing money from nuns to pay for an abortion would be boring, but Beth Lisick's amateur writing effort makes just those sorts of edgy, post modern topics less exciting than eating oatmeal and reading USA Today.
Beth Lisick seems to be suffering a classic amateur writer's dilemma-you've lived through something-abortion, drugs, sex, the Holocaust, so you think you can be a writer. I call it the Hemingway syndrome. Some writers even throw themselves ... Read More
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Another good book to read by the light of the sun ... lots of laughs.
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Some days I resent life as a Midwestern suburban mom. I don't discover trends or talents until they've been around long enough to bore my hipper and more cosmopolitan friends. That feeling was never more acute as I read Everybody Into the Pool: True Tales by Beth Lisick.
Every other paragraph had me laughing out loud, even as I lamented the fact I identified more with her naïve and sincere parents than her. I swear she channeled my own Catholic school girl experience with The Apostles ... Read More
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Very enjoyable short stories with a unique view of growing up and living in northern California.
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If I could give anything lower than one star, I would - possibly even a MINUS 10.
I was totally disappointed, yet forced myself to finish the book. Had it not been for wanting to give a review here, I'd have stopped at page 24 with the pubic hair incident.
Had Everyone Into The Pool been fiction, it would have been different, but it's unimaginable (to me) that anyone could possibly tell such disgusting things about herself, her friends, and family, and act as though she's ... Read More
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