DORA: A HEADCASE PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Dr Lidia Yuknavitch,Chuck Palahniuk | 237 pages | 07 Aug 2012 | HAWTHORNE BOOKS | 9780983477570 | English | United States Dora: A Headcase PDF Book As with many of the books I read, this one came to be on my radar after hearing about the author's 2nd novel "The Small Backs of Children" see my profile for further explanation around my reading idiosyncrasy in that I read an author's books in the order they were written. It channels Sigmund Freud and his young patient Dora and is both a hilarious critique and an oddly touching homage. Aug 24, Amy Bond rated it liked it. The Colonel, owner of Follyfoot, the Home of Rest for Horses, has been ill and has to go away to convalesce. Enlarge cover. Other editions. After taking in of the stimulating talks and demos last week, Kevin Chesters, executive planning director at Mcgarrybowen, picks out those you simply cannot afford to miss. Right across your lawn without respect to boundaries. NOOK Book. Wanna know the difference between adult wisdom and young adult wisdom? Its Yuknavitch. Dora: A Headcase is first and foremost an irreverent portrait of a smart seventeen year old trying to survive. I apologize to my mother every day because of it. Or at least many of the parts previously written Such a disappointment! Ida's observations are sharp, visceral and often darkly humorous. The thing about Palahniuk is that I've read more than a dozen of his books and realised that the twist is always self-destructiveness. But it takes a talented writer to make that kind of story palatable, much less amazing. Give her poetry books written by women. Average rating 3. It's hard to support you with this book. Mom, once a classical pianist, is now zombiefied by self medication. A chase ensues in which everyone wants what Ida has. I'm going back in. I loved and identified, big time with the dialogue, but I was kind of bored with the "Thera-tainment" value. It felt more real, more like the girls I knew and was, than any other coming of age narrator. Dora's story is scary and hilarious. There are about a gazillion different interpretations. Aug 18, Mara rated it it was amazing Shelves: read-in It's brazen in a way that feels edgy in And once a characters physical appearance has been This started off mediocre but I held high hopes. Nov 13, Carolyn rated it really liked it. That was outdated when I was a teen. Ok, back to this book, brilliant or terrible - I'm on the fence. Or at least many of the parts previously written about in "The Chronology". Instead, it's a fantasy, one that allows Yuknavitch to exact revenge on Freud. Her work has appeared in Ms. Not edgy, but ridiculous. To view it, click here. Nov 03, Wyma rated it really liked it Shelves: andstar. Retrieved Her writing hits you, hard. Dora: A Headcase Writer It sometimes verged into unfeasible territory - weird video footage including kind of ridiculous spy cam usage , escapades in the hospital involving a view spoiler [viagra-induced boner of Freud's hide spoiler ] , a boy with down syndrome that makes multiple, strange appearances. Like an alto opera singer performing an original pop song shredding Chris Brown. Something else that irritated me was the ableist language. Thinking: this is going to be received like The Marriage Plot after Middlesex. Does sh What do you say about a book that you can't put down, about a strange kid you might really like to know, about an author who gives us her interpretation of Freud's Dora, An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria? I liked most of what I've read of Chucky P but his newest additions weren't as good as the classics Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Lullaby. Dora: A Headcase is that kind of novel. Yuknavitch has wrestled with the force of her own convictions and given a powerful voice to a bad-ass character born on the literary landscape. Jan 26, Sarah Schantz rated it really liked it. Ok, back to this book, brilliant or terrible - I'm on the fence. Seattle, Washington United States. Jan 11, karen rated it liked it Shelves: girls-gone-wild. Aug 22, K. The sustained voice of Ida is a narrative tour de force. Dora was never a victim, and the redemption is not her own, it wasn't something she earned, it's something she lucked into, something she stumbled upon after taking advantage of so many people. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. But something goes wrong at a crucial momentat a nearby hospital Ida finds her father suffering a heart attack. Happy endings aren't realistic, and in this case more so in her novel than her memoir it's just not believable. I found both The Book of Joan and The Misfit's Manifesto distinctive and memorable, then was intrigued by the central conceit: a modern retelling of one of Freud's case histories. It's dirty, sexy, rude, smart, soulful, fresh and risky. And you've gotta love this normalized ending, even though this is the part of the story that doesn't quite ring true. Virtually no sentence goes by without the narrator trying to say something badass that rings altogether hollow. Can be read in an afternoon as if it were a novella. And what you all so fondly refer to I thought maybe Palahniuk was exaggerating when he said Dora was a girls' Fight Club. That sounds horrible to write, but in the case of "Dora" it's very much the truth. Publishers Weekly called Yuknavitch's debut "audacious", stating that she "nails the whip-smart angst of a teenage girl trapped in a world both familiar and unique, and her ease with language makes her a prose stylist to envy. When, in the course of recording, she finds that Old Sig has big plans for his case file on her, she draws up a sophisticated retaliation that includes more than the recommended daily allowance of Viagra and a Farrah Fawcett wig. I could die tomorrow and have lived the main ups and downs of life. Dora and Steve are left in charge, with the strict instruction, 'Don't buy any horses'. While for most part I was blown away by "The Chronology of Water" - it was definitely well-written, and absolutely captivating - "Dora" on the other hand, comes across as any old YA novel out there. To ask other readers questions about Dora , please sign up. Immediately wise to the head games of her new shrink, whom she nicknames Siggy, Ida begins a coming-of-age journey. Oct 07, Kate Savage rated it it was ok. Interesting to read right after the actual case study! What is bacon but fat and gristle and thin strips of ass meat? Ida needs a shrink. In twenty years, I hope to wake up in a world where Dora: A Headcase has replaced Catcher in the Rye on high school reading lists for the alienated. Wanna know the difference between adult wisdom and young adult wisdom? Think of your favorite out-there genius writer; multiply by ten, add a big heart, a poet's ear, and a bad girl's courage, and you've got Lidia Yuknavitch. Yuknavitch's writing was still beautiful. And how glad am I that I haven't added any of these people to the world? Disturbing, but smart, entertaining, and gratifying as an illustration of people growing up despite their upbringing. This has resulted in an enthusiastic, sometimes vexing novel that nevertheless will win over even the grumpiest lefty. All they want to do is dance in the club, get wasted and get down to as much orgying as they can pack into the giant humvee limo they fantasize about rolling around town in, pretending to be grownups so hard and so fast that one wonders, by the time they are 21 and they have done it all already what will be left for them to do? Faithfully comparing my experience-as-reader to mine during Chronology. Dora: A Headcase Reviews Does she see vaginas vags and penises everywhere? She packs more color into three lines of text than some people get into a photograph. I didn't know it was happening- I didn't think that after being swept away by The Chronology of Water earlier this year that another new book would fall into my lap 6 months later. Still, I found the ending somewhat underwhelming and the disgusting details somewhat excessive. I thought maybe Palahniuk was exaggerating when he said Dora was a girls' Fight Club. I'd try to chalk that up to the immature narrator, but Yuknavitch uses the same language in her memoir. I loved Marlene's character although they seemed to be more of a caricature than a fleshed out character. Ida manages to untether herself from her past, but the wounds inflicted early on remain unhealed. Paperback , pages. There is a really bad guy Jung to play off the probably good guy Freud and enough suspense to keep your heart pumping right through to the denouement. Yuknavitch gives the first person narration to Dora, or rather Ida, who treats therapy as an ongoing battle with her therapist, 'Siggy'. Then there was the tiring, repeated mentioning of iPhones. She knocked me over with passages so brilliant, so true, I had to reread them over and over until I could bear to let them go in order to move on to the next paragraph.