Larry Clark books? how many are in print? 1. Tulsa 2. Teenage Lust 3. Kids 4. Heroine (Jan. 2000) 5, anything else? please help...i'm desparate! thanks. peony@compac.net

I think that this book was great.it tells about the dangers of sex and drugs....me being a teenager it really tought me a lesson.

When a book or a movie can both be as true as the world that we live in, than you know that it has succeeded. Such is the case with KIDS. As a teenager growing up in the rural life, you don't see very many pieces of art that reflect upon what truly is happening in society with the younger generations. While critics might say that it is too "touchy" or "sick", they don't realize that this is what is really happening in America today and must either deal with it, orchange their opinion on it because what they call this movie or book, is what they call American teenage society.

The always beautiful and genuine harmony korine- and the art boy who manages to transform text into image make a fabulous team!-I may be biased because it is probably imposible for Harmony Korine to let me down - but this book is brilliant and dischevelled in a brilliant way. I do believe it is the extreme contradictions in their character that gives rise to their genious!- Brilliant! Beautiful!Ugly! Genious!-....perfect.

This is a must have for any Harmony Korine fan. It includes the original screen play for Larry Clarks Kids. as well as lots of interesting and bizzare information from harmony about his observations and thoughts while writing the creen play in his grand mothers basement.

crack up at the race riots is part scrapbook, part videologue all in one. pieces of scripts, part conversations, fake rumors and ideas all writen by harmony korine (writer of Kids and writer director of Gummo and Julian Donkey Boy). Sometimes you don't know whether to laugh or wonder if you're the butt of a joke (who pays for half writen lines anyway? me.) but it all ends up nicely. as a peek into the head of a genius.

Someone called this a postmodernist novel. I don't think so. It's not a novel. It's an old form, the laundry list appropriated for literary purposes. Narrative glue that normally binds the ideas in a novel is entirely missing. It's like Korine went about recording little snippets of thought and conversations on scraps of paper, then pulled them all together and arranged them by topic like suicide notes, overheard conversations, movie ideas etc. It's like a found object collage. Chapter titles are the only hint at what Korine is thinking.

But ultimately, we're on our own when it comes to tying all the scraps together. It's kind of looking at small tiles on a bathroom floor. Sooner or later you'll start seeing patterns.

But Korine's selection of scraps is not random. Korine collects among the lower classes. He gives the podium to people who don't normally have a voice in our culture, people who may or may not have jobs, people with no concern for political correctness.

And I think that this is where Korine deserves 5 stars. He makes us look at people we don't normally want to look at. He doesn't glamorize them, he doesn't apologize for them. He simply holds up the mirror and makes us look at them. He reminds us that not everyone gets to realize the American dream.

As for postmodernism or new literary forms, I think Korine got something going. Ideas in most modern literature are way too sparse. You have to wade through way too much narrative and plot to get at the few good ideas, insights, images. Korine simply throws out the ideas, images, lets you wander about and create your own picture.

Bless the lad, buy his book.

I still think his work is all based on a joke-- Gummo, obviously, has to be, and the response to Kids was absolutely hilarious. Crackup is sort of the same in that I think he's just seeing how we react. Korine is a keen observer of culture (isn't that what Kids was, after all?), and I liken him to Kurt Vonnegut in a lot of ways. So, read the book and enjoy and wonder, like I do, what Harmony thinks of our reaction to his work-- Maybe he's just testing us, eh?