Маленький Нью-Йоркский ублюдок

by M. Dylan Raskin, М. Дилан Раскин

Meet M. Dylan Raskin (MDR to friends). At twenty-two, he's the opposite of hip: a working-class college dropout and world-class malcontent who lives with his mother in Queens. Make that Flushing-stinking-Queens, to be precise - "and if you know anything about the joint you know that it's a wretched, horrible place.

Don't get him wrong: it's not that he doesn't like New York, exactly, it's just that lately he's felt more and more at odds with everything - his family, his generation, his hometown, even himself. One day he gets fed up and decides to take his freedom on the road, setting off for Chicago in a quixotic attempt to turn his life around. Equal parts road story, coming-of-age memoir, and existential manifesto, Little New York Bastard is the true story of an outsider for the ages, a mixed-up kid who knows what he wants in life but has no idea how to get it.

Genres: Fiction

Hardcover

First published October 16, 2003

Reviews

[Irina · Rating 1 out of 5]

*yawn* I couldn't do it. I could not finish this book. I honestly tried, but just found it sooooo boring. And I did not like the character at all. I grew up in Flushing too, and I have no problem what-so-ever with the character dissing my hometown, I just could not take another minute of this book.

[Rob Stuart · Rating 2 out of 5]

Little New York Bastard is 240 pages of Raskin trying to prove to the reader that he is the angriest young man who hates idiots the most, believe me. It's also probably exactly the memoir I would have written at the age of 22.

[Derrick · Rating 1 out of 5]

Wow. Worst thing ever.

[Patrick Gelsana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mike Dylan Raskin was probably a distant cousin or a relative of the infamous Holden Caulfield from Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye". MDR's thirst and hunger for a new environment totally consumed his mind. I like the fact how he rants about his generation and their mediocrity and how he was glad he isn't one of them. MDR's got brains I'd admit but he gets overly-melodramatic about the past events and he's almost childish. This 'memoir' almost seemed fictional but i really like it although some parts tend to get draggy like how MDR gets very sentimental about his pet dog! I am satisfied by reading another cult classic rebellious-themed book. B+.

[Nikita Svetlov · Rating 2 out of 5]

Poor imitation of rebel spirit

[Victoria · Rating 1 out of 5]

Too freaking boring. I just couldn't.