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Thumbsucker

Walter Kirn

Paperback | Pages: 300 pages

Rating: 3.44 | 1237 Users | 114 Reviews

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Original Title:	Thumbsucker
ISBN:	0385497091 (ISBN13: 9780385497091)
Edition Language:	English

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This eighties-centric, Ritalin-fueled, pitch-perfect comic novel by a writer to watch brings energy and originality to the classic Midwestern coming-of-age story.Meet Justin Cobb, "the King Kong of oral obsessives" (as his dentist dubs him) and the most appealingly bright and screwed-up fictional adolescent since Holden Caulfield donned his hunter's cap. For years, no remedy--not orthodontia, not the escalating threats of his father, Mike, a washed-out linebacker turned sporting goods entrepreneur, not the noxious cayenne pepper-based Suk-No-Mor--can cure Justin's thumbsucking habit.Then a course of hypnosis seemingly does the trick, but true to the conservation of neurotic energy, the problem doesn't so much disappear as relocate. Sex, substance abuse, speech team, fly-fishing, honest work, even Mormonism--Justin throws himself into each pursuit with a hyperactive energy that even his daily Ritalin dose does little to blunt.Each time, however, he discovers that there is no escaping the unruly imperatives of his self and the confines of his deeply eccentric family. The only "cure" for the adolescent condition is time and distance.Always funny, sometimes hilariously so, occasionally poignant, and even disturbing, deeply wise on the vexed subject of fathers and sons, Walter Kirn's Thumbsucker is an utterly fresh and all-American take on the painful process of growing up.

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Title	:	Thumbsucker
Author	:	Walter Kirn
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 300 pages
Published	:	October 19th 1999 by Broadway Books
Categories	:	Fiction. Young Adult. Coming Of Age. Novels

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a refreshing coming of age story. takes many unexpected twists and turns which seem absurd and sincere all at the same time. the narrator must discover who he is when his habit of thumbsucking is broken through hypnosis when he is 13. without the safety of his thumb, he has a hard time dealing with the craziness that is his family. he tries drugs, gets diagnosed with ADHD, and tries converting to mormonism to fill the gap. sometimes, you just can't deny you are a bit weird and accepting that

Mediocre movie but a great book. It is a story of a teenage boy who sucks him thumb but is made to stop and he stumbles through a series of self-destructive behaviours trying to compensate for it as other drama unfolds in his life and family. The movie did away with my favourite of his coping mechanisms, Mormonism. I thought it was compelling and entertaining but then again I like books written for teens that are not too vacuous.

I enjoyed reading this book. The author has a keen eye and talent for description. The book seemed to be well-structured.The book's weakness was in its characters. While they were all well-communicated and identifiable, I didn't really feel what was going on with them. Fun misadventures and all, but...It makes me wonder if creating neurotic characters is any way similar to creating complex and compelling characters. Here, the former seems to be a pretty good way to allow authors leeway in

Justins been doing it for years, But its only lately that his dad made a campaign out of it.- to get him to stop. And really the only reason is because of the dental bills. It seems that the thumb sucking has pushed his teeth forward, and the dentist, a bit of a wacko, hypnotizes him to get him to stop. Justin has to admit its better than the awful tasting stuff his dad was putting on his thumb. The hypnosis works Justin tries to find the comfort, the solace, he once found by sucking his thumb,



Things just seemed to happen without much reason.

I saw the movie adaptation years ago - or rather I watched 30 minutes before pulling out the DVD in frustration at the self-conscious quirkiness of it and the black hole of acting that is Keanu Reeves - so imagine my surprise when that weird, plotless mess of a movie actually was adapted from a book. I had to read it, assuming the book was better. Well, it wasn't. Not plotwise anyway. It is not about a thumbsucking addiction. It is a series of events in the life of a teenager in a rather