Weetzie Bat
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Fifteen years ago Francesca Lia Block made a dazzling entrance into the literary scene with what would become one of the most talked-about books of the decade: Weetzie Bat. This poetic roller coaster swoop has a sleek new design to match its new sister and brother books, Goat Girls and Gorgeous Boys. Rediscover the magic of Weetzie Bat, Ms. Blocks sophisticated, slinkster-cool like song to L.A.the book that shattered the standard, captivated readers of all generations, and made Francesca Lia Block one of the most heralded authors of the last decade.
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I am 13 years ancient and i am in a mother-daughter book group. We all read it and thaught it was a terrible book! First of all, it was very innapropriate for teenagers to read and it was porrly written as well. I do not reccomend this book to anyone of any age.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Francesca Lia Block, Weetzie Bat (Harper, 1989)
I’ve been hearing the names Francesca Lia Block and Weetzie Bat thrown around for a number of years, usually in relation to Block’s novels being challenged in school libraries. Somewhere along the way I got the thought that they were horror novels, perhaps Buffy the Vampire Slayer for an intelligent, discerning audience. I couldn’t have been more incorrect; really, Weetzie Bat and her creator place me far more in mind of Kathy Acker than Sarah Michelle Gellar (and I cannot tell you what a relief that is).
Weetzie Bat, the first of the five (as of this writing) novels in the series, is a rather fleeting piece of work which introduces us to the characters, gets them into a few amusing and less-than-amusing situations, eventually rolling around to dealing with the situation that so many ultra-hip books were dealing with at the time (in case you’re living in as much of a cave as I was, and are still under the impression Weetzie Bat is a vampire slayer, I’ll not mention the scenery of said situation) and which has since passed into the realm of such things as Lifetime Original Movies and sappy poetry. I say this because it’s a warning to the unexpecting; you’ll be tempted to read the crux of this novel as dated. (To an extent, the whole novel reads as dated; imagine, again, Kathy Acker, but as if Kathy Acker had been writing during the Eisenhower era; while the effect is reasonably wonderful, it does play up this effect.) I know it’s something of a cop-out to say, and the inevitable flipside to it is “this hasn’t aged well,” but consider the time in which the book was written, and then take the evocative feel of the beginning and middle of the book and contrast it with the final chapter. A whole different picture emerges.
Sorry to say, if you end up having that many problems now, the simple fact is this book won’t age well at all; by the time a new generation comes along, it’ll resemble an improperly-stored camembert. All the more reason to read, and cherish, it now.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
As required reading in a Children’s Literature course, Weezie Bat proved to be anything but appropriate for children. Very adult themes taint what might have been an intriguing coming-of-age tale. What you get as a replacement for is a schizophrenic carnival ride with loud prose and small substance.
The utter rediculousness of several plot and character “developments” only magnify the discombobulated tale telling. The whole account begs for a real and edgy feel but hinges on a genie in a bottle (factually) to keep the preposterous tale moving. The characters are empty-headed students of hippies and Hollywood, owning absolutely no concept of action-vs-consequenses. (What Weetzie wants, Weetzie gets. That includes a baby that may have been conceived by any of three men. And, yes, for some weird reason, they all thought that was a excellent thought.) To clarify them as “supremely superficial” would really ascribe to them some depth.
If you’re attempting to instill any sort of family tree-values in your kids/teens, avoid this book like the plague. Or read it, if only out of sinister curiosity, to see how terrible “children’s” literature can get.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The only reason I finished the book was because I had to do it for a Y.A. literature class. There was no substance to the book. The characters were shallow, unreal, immoral, and ridiculous (from their names to their actions). The writing in this book was so superficial, I couldn’t even try to get to know them well enough so that I could like them or despise them. I was absolutely indifferent to them, except for the fact that what was being described was so immoral. I wouldn’t want any teen to use these characters as a role model. If I could ban this book, I probably would.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I read this book during school trip. I realized it was fleeting read and seemed simple. Small did I know, filled within the 200+ pages of this book was themes that were unrealistic and innapropriate. The book’s plot was just unadorned out s.t.u.p.i.d.
The book takes place in Shangri LA, a young girl in highschool named Weetzie Bat feels like no one understands her, and therefore is pretty much an outcast. She soon meets one of the coolest guys in school named Dirk, and finds out his huge secret that he is gay. Both spend all their days together out on the town having fun in Ducks ‘55 red pontiac. Both are boyfriendless, or as the book says “duckless” so they both go on a hunt to find ducks, aka boys.
Weetzie and Dirk go to Dirks grandmother’s, Fifi’s cottage where Fifi gives Weetzie a bottle. When weetzie gets home she discovers the bottle has a GENIE inside..can this get anymore childish? (CHEEZY!!) The geenie gives Weetzie 3 wishes. She wishes for Dirk to find a Duck and for her to find her Secret Agent Lover Man. For the 3rd wish she wishes that they can both live in a cottage happily.
Soon enough all 3 wishes comes right. Dirk meet’s a duck whos name is LITERALLY DUCK-and she meets a duck whos name is LITERALLY MY SECRET AGENT LOVER MAN…this is SUCH a cheezy book!
Towards the end of the book they all live in a cottage (her 3rd wish) o yea, this wish came right because Fifi died so they got to go in! (?!) yay? As all 4 live in the cottage, weetize wants a baby but My Secret Agent Lover Man doesnt so she has sex with Dirk AND Duck, a three-some and have a baby..not knowing who the father is, but according to them it doesnt matter because they all like eachother and they were doing it to make Weetzie pleased. So My Secret Agent Lover Man discovers she did this but then forgives her, seeing that he did something pretty similar. He had a baby with a WITCH, and they must take care of the baby or the witch will cast spells on them all….As the book continues more drama? unravels..
This cheezy, unrealistic, childish yet innappropriate book, was so terrible that I highly DO NOT recomend this book to anyone that ACTUALLY wants to read a GOOD book!!! (the only reason I gave it 1 star was because you can’t rate it 0).
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5