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- BRILLIANT AND STRANGELY MOVING
- Coming of age, hmmm.
- Great Stories from the Playground Read it
- A completely original and irreverent coming-of-age story
- Possibly the funniest and most genuine book I've ever read!
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Dirty Little Altar Boy
Brandon D Christopher
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"I am 13 years old. I just realized that I'm not as good-looking as my mom led me to believe. I wear two pairs of underwear . everywhere. These are my stories." It was 1985, and if you weren't a diehard Knight Rider fan then you probably wouldn't survive on the savage and perilous playground of St. Charles private school. It was a time unlike any other, filled with strange fashion choices, schoolyard extortion rackets, and first dates. It was a time for kids who stuck firecrackers in cats' asses, a time for pretending to be murdered to freak out neighbors, and a time for realizing that no one really liked you. It was the perfect time for a Dirty Little Altar Boy. Middle-class, middle child, way uncool hair-these are the true confessions of a 13-year-old at the crossroads of junior high and hellfire eternity.
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BRILLIANT AND STRANGELY MOVING.......2007-05-19
A real page turner, poignant, insightful and FUNNY. Laugh-out-loud yet, in way, touching. Anyone who's ever been perceived as the underdog - which is most of us - can relate to this collection.
I read this upon a recommendation from a friend (because four of my five brothers were Altar Boys) and I'm glad I did. I hope to see more from this author.
My only real complaint is I wish the book was longer. Which is exactly the opposite of the way I usually feel after putting down a book.
Coming of age, hmmm........2007-04-28
When you hear the title, Dirty Little Altar Boy, what comes to mind is a tween or teenager that is a misfit and probably did some wild stuff when he was in middle school. What you get with Christopher's novel is a tired, worn-out plot about a 12-to-13-year-old malcontent who really doesn't do anything wrong. He attends parochial school, is an altar boy and is friends with two other rag tag, unpopular boys.
His friends steal the host chalice and wine from the priest, but that's been done before. The reader can't get close to Christopher, we catch glimpses when his father gets angry, once, but we don't get a full and complete picture of this boy, or why he'd consider himself a "dirty little altar boy." The book is a scattered glimpse into the life of Christopher, his love of Chuck Norris, finding girls attractive and generally doing what most young adolescent boys do.
The most deeply written story in the book is when Valentine boxes are on each child's desk and Christopher is left out, not getting one Valentine. It shows the brutality of other children, the pickiness and fickleness of girls and Christopher's heartbreak.
Armchair Interviews says: A decent read for a malcontent teenage boy, but otherwise a pass for the rest of us.
Great Stories from the Playground Read it.......2007-04-08
This is a great book covering a time of change we have all been through. The author mixes humor with insight to take you through those troubled times between adolescents and the teen years. One will never know how he, his family and, friends ever survived these stories. Great fun!
A completely original and irreverent coming-of-age story.......2007-03-17
When I finished the last page of this book, misty-eyed and smiling at the same time, I was ready to start over and read it again. Not only is it funny and smart, this book stays with you. It's a coming-of-age story that dodges the cliches, and it isn't afraid to get its hands dirty, just like the 13-year old protagonist himself. It touches on such a pivotal age, and through a series of short stories creates a large, vivid, and fulfilling novel. The characters are colorful and unflinchingly truthful, and the situations (from the hilariously surreal to the painfully too-real) are relatable and clever. The writer handles his subject matter with subtle brush strokes in some stories, or with the unbridled enthusiasm of a Rick Springfield concert when necessary. You can't help but connect with the protagonist, an outcast hero whose observations of his increasingly complicated world are written with a pitch-perfect voice that encompasses everything from innocence to cynicism, hope to disgust. This novel is funny, heartbreaking, moving, imaginative, and mischievous.
Possibly the funniest and most genuine book I've ever read!.......2007-03-16
I stumbled across the author, Brandon D. Christopher, doing a book reading of 'Dirty Little Altar Boy' in Los Angeles, and I have never laughed so hard in my life. I had to buy this book. And I did buy this book, and it is just amazing! It's jarring, it's funny, it's a perfect look inside the mind of a weird 13-year-old kid dealing with everything we dealt with at that age, but he captures it all so perfectly and painfully and hysterically. I am really impressed with this author and his debut book, and I will be on the look-out for anything he does next. I highly recommend this book if you like David Sedaris' or Augusten Burroughs' memoirs--'Dirty Little Altar Boy' is just amazing!
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Catholic Jr. High all over again.......2006-04-04
I thought this book was really good. It reminded me of the boys in my old private Catholic school class except for the drinking, drugs, fights, and obscene comics, but still relateable in spirit. I think that any person that attends private school or has ever had to endure the ever so annoying nuns should read this book. Of course, if you're lucky enough to not have gone through the whole experience, you should read it too.
A rushed novel of maturation.......2004-12-13
The dangerous lives of altar boys is a novel that flirts with depth, but ends up falling short. Fuhrman
Begins to really develop some strong underlying themes for this novel near the beginning of the story, but he never really follows through with many of them. An example would be the race conflicts that occur throughout the novel; at one point they blacks and whites begin fighting in a mud pit and everyone's skin color disappears, yet they still keep fighting. Later on in the novel these race tensions come to a hype with a racial protest...but from there they idea is juts left hanging, there is no symbolic closing to the matter, it just seemed as if Fuhrman through it in there simply because the story was set in the south in 1974. Also there is this tone that Francis has these underlying problems that make him act out and such, but other than a drunk father the problem is not dug into much; I do not enjoy the comparisons to Holden because Francis completely lacks the depth that Holden had. The idea of god is brought up many times, but no resolution really comes. Also the climax and ending of the book leave something to be desired; when the youths begin to hatch their plan I personally thought the ending might be ... and it turned out to be. That is normally fine, but as you're reading the book you should not hope the ending that you have predicted is going to happen because it is kinda cheesy. Also the book closes out with a strange chapter describing the main characters life for the next 10 years or so after the other events of the story, it just seems out of place and unnecessary, the conclusions drawn in it take away from the mystery of what could have happened to Francis and give you a very abbreviated, cookie cutter closing.
Now the book is not all bad, the story aside from the animal sections is very good and Fuhrman does a wonderful job of describing a youth first sexual experience. The comments about the catholic religion are also very humorous.
As a whole this book is OK, it is an average story describing the growing up process, but the main character is not fully developed to maturity. I personally would suggest Douglas Coupland's Microserfs if you are looking for a story with multiple levels that is a better maturation story
A promising draft more than a polished novel.......2004-12-07
I'm going against the grain here, but this compares to previously unreleased demo tapes made by a musician that see the light of day only after the artist's demise or need for income. Since Fuhrman and I are only a year apart in age, I thought this'd be an intriguing read for its take on being thirteen or so, 1974. It was that, but the hasty nature of the ending, the less-than-satisfying, melodramatic climax with the animals, and the underdeveloped comic-book context within which the story starts and finishes (not to mention the misleading cover art) left me with an appreciation for a work in progress.
The best sections by far were the episodes with Craig and the later racial protest--here, you felt as if you were surrounded, bike in hand, facing the adult world for the first time in all of its unruly, unstereotyped, and unclear messiness. The night spent with Margie, the scenes of familial dispute, and the boredom of classroom life all gain their own sharp moments, but the characters of his Mama and siblings needed more development. He sets up Mama, for example, in a larger context of friends she shares on the phone and seemingly keeps apart from her husband, linked to a college class she takes, but this and her life outside the home is left scattered. Perhaps this reflects only what the narrator's limited vision is at the time, but this p-o-v itself becomes contradicted by the last pages of the book.
Surprisingly, little period detail specifically from 1974 exists here. Characters like the priests and nuns flit in and out but do not stick--I imagine that this was changed in the film. Fuhrman's narrator at best strives for a Holden Caulfield type of wisdom, and he and his cronies possess an admirable range of artistic references, given their dialogue, but the artistic side that represents rebellion and escape, like the novel itself, needed much more work that the author's early death prevented.
On the other hand, the film (which I have not seen) inspired my twelve-year-old son to read the novel, and now he's asking me to find him William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"! From Amazon's links, I see we're not the only readers with this tie-in. So, postmortem congratulations to Fuhrman's example for today's adolescents. Although not a "young-adult" novel, it'd be appropriate for a discerning young person and ideal to set up a reading of, say, "Catcher in the Rye."
Our leader.......2004-05-10
My friend gave me this book because she had a delightful time reading it. I thought the front cover was weird, but continued starting the first period, and fell in love with it. Francis is stuck with a girls name and finds himself eyeing a girl Margie at church.
The coming of age novel shows Francis and his gangy group and how they survive through a lot of their firsts through adolescent times. They grew up in a Catholic school
Margie has previous thoughts on sucide especially because some things that happened between her and her brother. I thought Margie was a bit weird, but I'm glad she got Francis to help her out with her problems.
Other problems are faced through this book from family problems, fighting in the house, racism, sex, drugs, and death. The book is set for anyone of any age really, but I'm not a sucker for coming to age tales. I find my personality and life a whole lot different (basically on a different side) as these boys. However, I did like this book better then Perks of Being a Wallflower and a couple other books that are in the same category.
Pick the book up if you can, don't be fooled by the title or cover. I plan to see if the movie is in stock, because it might be interesting to get caught up in the movie. The book will make you laugh, even though there are many sad parts, especially at the end.
Childhood captured.......2003-07-12
This book was like revisiting the past. Chris Fuhrman captured childhood perfectly.
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Willie Radkay grew up in Kansas City, Kansas, spanning the two World Wars, Prohibition, the Great Depression and the Gangster era. A lawless soul, Willie survived numerous bank robberies, jail breaks, escapes and gun battles - and took six bullets in one such confrontation. This is his story - including his many years behind bars with the "Cream of the Criminal Crop" at Alcatraz.
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Last of the Bad Boys.......2006-12-14
Everything in the universe is circular and Willie Radkay made the full circle. From altar boy to Alcatraz to model citizen. But don't let that fool you. This is no boring namby-pamby "born again" ex-con tale that leaves out the juicy stuff. This is Willie's own story, as he related it to his niece Patty Terry, who has excellently "captured" his whole life story. The cops had to shoot Willie at least twelve times in the course of his various captures and he carried most of that lead around for the rest of his ninety-five years. A bank robber and escape artist from the classic gangster era, Willie's story is violent, dramatic, and even humorous at times and despite his crimes, his streak of rebellion, sense of humor, and sheer cantankerousness unveil a downright likeable rogue, as well as a true survivor who just had to make good in the end. His years on the Rock (with "pen pals" like "Machine Gun" Kelly, Basil "The Owl" Banghart, Harvey Bailey, Eddie Bentz, Alvin Karpis, and Jimmy Murray) are covered in detail and make for essential Alcatraz reading. The details may not always jibe with official reports but those reports aren't always right and Willie was there when it happened. If you ever wanted to talk with a former public enemy, this book is as close as you'll ever get.
A Devil Incarnate.......2005-07-04
I lived on Alcatraz Island and am very familiar with the History of the Federal Penitentiary years [1934-1963]. I have met "Willie" and have been fascinated by his life on Alcatraz [1945-1952]. "Willie's" niece Patty has successfully captured him in print. It is as if "Willie" was in the room with you, telling his story. This book should be read by anyone interested in the Gangster Era and Alcatraz Island. It will give you a NEW view of a vanished Era. Very well done. Easy to read!
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- Crisp and intelligent, with vibrant characters
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Crisp and intelligent, with vibrant characters.......2001-08-29
Mr. McDonald offers a grounded, intelligent snapshot of life on Wall Street and beyond, peopled by a variety of memorable characters. Perhaps surprisingly, given the Wall Street setting, the older personalities are drawn with particular flair and heart. The protagonist, too, emerges as vivid and real: more someone you know than just a character in a book. A fine first novel.
The following is a reference for the "Altar Boy.".......2000-10-06
The Altar Boy is a quick, fun read. McDonald's tour through the twisted world of investment banking and the frenzied world of big city romance, left me laughing. It was a treat.
The Altar Boy.......2000-02-17
For a first novel, Mr. McDonald did a very nice job. Good characterizations and very believable dialogue. The story line was good. He writes about what he knows, that being the world of finance. I read his bio....what is a mud engineer?
Practically prose........1999-05-16
This is one of those books that you enjoy not only once, but again and again, savoring each phrase. The dialog is hilarious, the author's description of people and places make you feel as if you were really there. I'm hoping for a sequel.
A funny, uplifting love story........1999-04-14
Finally, a book with heart, set on Wall Street. Crisply written, laugh-out-loud funny, and, in the end, deeply moving. A fine, lovely read.
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Author Jack Fritscher is a schoolmate of Bernard Cardinal Law of Boston--famous in the priest sex-abuse scandals rocking the Catholic Church. This memoir-novel tells a tale of boys "touched by angels." That the narrator, Ryan O'Hara, is ironically flawed subverts the tale told to the reader in this 'Catholic Catcher in the Rye'.
Catholic or not: What you should know about What They Did to the Kid. Vivid as a screenplay. Villains will make you throw the book across the room. Heroes will make you pick it up. Fun. Accessible. And as true as fiction gets. If you, or someone in your family, grew up in a seminary, or you just want to know exactly how priests are trained as boys, this novel tells all you need to know, without being offensive or stereotypical, about adolescent boys, recruited by the Church, and trapped in claustrophobic seminaries. Chosen by CNN: "Top 100 Books You Are Reading."
In the 1950s, the Catholic Church in fact actively recruited 200,000 boys into seminaries. This is the story of those boys and their families, and the women who would have married them. Strong characters and snappy dialog propel the fast-moving plot.
In the secret 1950s' world of "Misericordia Seminary," Ryan O'Hara, from age 14 to 24, narrates the adventures of 500 boys trapped by the imperial Rector Karg; the militaristic disciplinarian, Father Gunn USMC; the tart, and suicidal, Father Polistina; and the rebel-priest, handsome Chris Dryden "who knows Fellini and JFK" and also teaches seminarians how to love their bodies "the way Jesus loves their bodies."
The author, with twelve previous books published, gives each diverse character--hero or villain, student or priest, man or woman--a rich back story. Black civil rights of the 1960s and three interesting women characters open this boys-coming-of-age story out of the seminary and on to the hot streets of Chicago.
In this fictional memoir, Jack Fritscher--who won "Story Teller of the Year" Book Award for this novel--inhales experience and exhales fiction. Against the dramatic tension of Vatican II, he oxygenates his panic-stricken novel with mouth-to-mouth comic dialog that breathes irony into this coming-of-age novel in a seminary where no boy can grow up.
In times of Catholic scandal, this is what readers need to know about the secret education of boys-who-would-be-priests--without offending reader sensibilities.
"Survivors of Catholic education" will identify with the 1950s' roots of 21st-century "recovering Catholic" panic and angst.
Readers outside the Catholic Church will gain an insight to the hidden psychology of the education of priests.
This coming-of-age story is "a novel of the closet" in which boys' personal, intellectual, and sexual identity is always on the line. This novel is the pre-quel to the best-selling memoir-novel, Some Dance to Remember.
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Pyscho-sexual development & immaturity of priest training.......2004-02-29
Inside the priest factory.
The media continues, even today, to be full of news of priest molestation of and priest abuse of children. I found this novel, "What They Did," to be amazing because it is totally insightful as to how and why Catholic seminarians had their psycho-sexual development stunted by the corporate institution of the the Church vis a vis seminary education.
The poor boy who narrates this story is a lost boy. Not one priest comes forward to help him. Not one priest comes forward to educate him or help him mature. This central character is typical of the priests who psycho-sexually remain young teens all their lives--with the attendant teenage emotional problems.
By the last page, I wanted to hold this suffering priest-boy in my arms. The last operatic scene says everything about the lonely isolation of the priesthood and celibacy. This book is entertaining, sometimes lyrical and mystical in the Catholic sense (which means Freud would find it interesting!), but definitely eye-opening regarding the abuse of young seminarians. Highly recommended if you want to see inside the priest factory!
Bravo! Tells all with no prurience, scares no one.......2002-11-17
I agree with some of these reviews. Well written coming-of-age story. A psychologist or psychiatrist could picnic on this powerful little book that tells the truth close to the way my brother the priest, and I (the former seminarian) both agree we remember it.
This novel of a repressed boy who wants to give his all to Christ is almost a case study, and all one needs to know, about why the Church needs to understand the recent charges about priest pederasty as a wake-up call for the Church's larger need to update itself on the whole, huge, complicated front of modern sexuality: priests'celibacy, women's issues of sex and abortion, couples' issues, homosexuals' souls, etc. etc.
The author manages to tell about Church abuse of seminarians (the future priests) which is a far more complicated psychological abuse than the sexual. What little sex there is, is dramatically (and historically) important, and is handled in an understated way that the most chaste reader could handle.
Bravo. Bravissimo!
Schoolmate of Bernard Cardinal Law.......2002-04-25
The author is a schoolmate of Bernard Cardinal Law, and so am I. Consequently, I found Jack Fritscher's novel to be as much memoir as fiction, as I was also a student at the Pontifical College Josephinum with both Law and Fritscher, and found the fictive parallels to my memories to be evocative of how we as young seminarians were taught and trained "to be pure and avoid scandal at all costs." That, I suggest, is the innocent essence of the secrecy the media now calls "cover-up." Don't all groups--from firemen and cops to Marines--close ranks around their own?
If one is at all analytical, one thinks that this "scandal of priest sexual abuse and priest molestation"--driven by media terribly hungry to fill 24/7 programming--is just another part of the fundamentalist religious war to destroy Western Civilization: i.e. Christianity, and Christianity's oldest bastion, Roman Catholicism.
At any rate, Fritscher's novel, despite its media-juicy title, is a gentle, yet eye-popping read about the rigors of seminary life as lived by the thousands of young men recruited by the Catholic Church in the 1950's. His insight lights up the seminary culture that produced the priests of a certain age who now stand--rightly and wrongly--accused.
The story is human, engaging, and quite literary, and never exploitative or graphically embarrassing even when confronting a variety of behavior including a Jesuit spiritual director distributing prescription drugs--without a prescription--to depressed seminarians at the fictive "Misericordia Seminary."
Actually, the novel is a credit to both the PCJ and to Monsignor Leonard J. Fick who was, apparently, so much a mentor to Fritscher that he dedicates the book to Msgr. Fick. (Anyone conjecturing about the seminary culture of Bernard Law's life might well enjoy this parallax story.)
What a good writer! What an entertaining book! One suspects Fritscher kept notes hidden under his bed, because he remembers minutiae I had long ago forgotten, but--reminded by this wonderful book--remember, with nostalgia, as true.
I think a "novel" like this--better than can nonfiction--brings out a truth of how we young seminarians were trained, particularly by priests who, as returning veterans of World War II, set very high standards for priestly masculinity in the adolescent world of young seminarians. Those standards' inherent flaw froze many an adolescent emotional life at 14-years-of-age, perhaps later causing some of them to seek others also at 14-years-old. Author Fritscher even writes, "What happens to a boy when he is 14, marks him for life." If this novel, which is never about the obvious, is at all autobiographical in its experiences, what a wonderful life for an author to have led!
I'm the wife of an ex-seminarian experiencing Church scandal.......2002-04-06
Amazing. I thought I was reading a youthful journal written by my husband who has told me nearly everything about his seminary experience. In the light of the on-going church scandal regarding problems of sexuality, I found this novel to be really rather gentle and respectful--as well as insightful--of the human experience of boys' being locked away in a seminary.
Author Fritscher who obviously knows the territory about which he writes could have exploited the media controversy, but he seems to be a humane artist who chose not to do so. I appreciated being able to read about the secrecy of seminaries without being offended by overt sex or by the anti-Catholicism that fuels much of the media.
My husband seconded my opinion, and we both genuinely enjoyed the book just as a story. I learned things. My husband remembered things long forgotten. The book gave us some lively discussions.
Seminary novel has a sequel in "Some Dance to Remember".......2001-11-19
In the "National Catholic Reporter," I found this novel, "What They Did to the Kid," which is what these days Hollywood might call a "pre-quel." Actually, a couple years ago I read a really DEFINITIVE post-seminary novel titled "Some Dance to Remember" and I thought of it because all the characters have the same names as the characters in "What They Did to the Kid."
Putting two and two together with the author's name, I did a search and was able to easily put together the continuing adventures of a seminarian--but not only what happened IN the seminary, but also what happened to him AFTER the seminary, in the real world, because of--BECAUSE OF--what happened to him in the seminary, and who he became in and after the seminary that itself as an institution put an INDELIBLE MARK on his soul. (The sequel was published first.)
All of us who were seminarians, have life after the seminary. "Some Dance to Remember" is the LIFE AFTER THE SEMINARY of Ryan O'Hara in "What They Did to the Kid."
Both books are perfectly well written, intellectually defensible, and worth reading for fun as well as insight, and they certainly throw light on the PSYCHOLOGY of how we boys got to the seminary, lived in the seminary corridors, and then went out into the big wide world where people always forever after summed us up as ex-seminarians--as if that explained us! Which maybe it does?
Two good HUMANIST novels--if you like to compare the INTERNAL QUEST of the first volume of "What They Did to the Kid" to the EXTERNAL WORLDLINESS of the second volume, "Some Dance to Remember." Priest-psychologists like the late Reverend Roger Radloff could have written expert JUNGIAN analyses of the psychological sweep of these 2 Catholic-driven novels.
The pre-quel/sequel Hollywood reference also works in that the style in both novels is so CINEMATIC you can "see" what's going on. I'm always interested in books--few and far between as they are--about the seminary life and post-seminary life of seminarians and priests, because it's always with me...like an indelible mark on my soul.
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- Reminds me of things that I thought I had forgot.
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Credo: Essays on Grace, Altar Boys, Bees, Kneeling, Saints, the Mass, Priests, Strong Women, Epiphanies, a Wake, and the Haunting Thin Energetic Dusty figure
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Reminds me of things that I thought I had forgot........2000-07-05
This wonderful and thought provoking book shows a great view of the little things of life that all of us take for granted. The simple recitation of grace (the Catholic version) often gets lost in the motions. Brian Doyle makes you think about the little things that makes up your everyday beliefs and rituals that are taken for granted and not examined. The simple act of the sign of the cross, I had forgotten the symbolism. Every Catholic boy that served his rookie year on the altar has similar rememberances. I too had to learn all the prayers only to be told that Latin was no longer necessary. The experiences that he relates make you think about things long forgotten. Doyle's writing style is simple and to the point. He is stingy with words in much the way Hemmingway was. The book is broken up into nice small sections that are easilly read and re read. A great Vacation book!
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ANDREW MADDEN
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The day Andrew Madden was molested by his favorite priest, his love of the Catholic Church was poisoned. The abuse lasted for three years, until Andrew was fifteen, and its impact went on long after. Andrew lost direction, self-esteem, and the capacity to love. Eventually, he lost himself in drink. Altar Boy tells how Andrew found his way again. This candid and sometimes searing account of how abuse can affect a life also shows that victims don't have to remain victims.
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