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| Hideous Kinky | 
 enlarge | Author: Esther Freud
Publisher: Penguin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 13086
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0140174125
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780140174120
ASIN: 0140174125
Publication Date: June 28, 2001
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Condition: Penguin; 2001; 0.71 x 7.72 x 5.04 Inches; Paperback; Fair with no dust jacket; 192 Pages
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 Hideous Kinky - interesting read February 13, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found this to be an interesting novel to read. It's the story of two little English girls who have been taken to Marrakesh by their mother, and a series of incidents unfolds around the family until they eventually return to England having run out of money and with no other means to survive.
The book doesn't really read like a four year old child speaking although it is the younger of the two sisters who speaks throughout in it. It reads more like an adult's memories of being a young child in that situation and in that context is quite believable and very well written. I found I kept picking the book up to read some more and when I'd picked it up couldn't put it down!
I had already seen the film by the time I read the book and found the general poverty in which the family were living to be so overwhelming that I couldn't bear to watch it. However reading the book this doesn't come across in the same way and it's a much gentler read. You are aware constantly, however, of the terrible risks the young woman takes the whole time with herself and her children and that does come across particularly towards the end of the book.
Not Hideous October 23, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love this book. Like another reviewer said it has had an enourmous impact on self and I can remeber extracts of the book and I read it when I was about 11 or 12...which means that it a good read in my opinion !
 See the film instead.... January 8, 2006
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Having seen the film of the book, starring Kate Winslet, and TOTALLY loving that film (its AWESOME !) I thought I would read the book expecting additional insights into the charaters and of their experience of Morocco. In fact, the film is MUCH better than the book which I found incredibly dreary, confusing, too many characters dipping in and out with little or no context, characters which you really don't care about at all. There are a couple (and i do mean that literally) of genuinely moving, touching and / or funny moments but these are all in the film too. The book is written as if from Lucy's point of view but is full of very unchildlike lilting descriptive passages of prose which in any case left me completely cold and uninspired. Forget the book and see the film - the film is a rare example of being better in every way than the book it was based on....Sorry Esther !
Left me cold. November 6, 2003
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
I bought this book to read on a holiday in Morroco. It did not live up to my expectations at all and I was sorely disappointed. I found Esther Freud's style stilted and forced, and the characters too one-dimensional in places.
 Is it wrong to call this my bible? September 11, 2003
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Okay...I'm not sure I can put into words what an incredible impact this book has made on me. I first read it when I was 13 (my mother suggested it) and now, years later, it's still my favourite book. I take it on holiday with me no matter where I go because I know I'm going to want to read it. It never gets boring! Please, please read this book if you love atmospheric literature or just read it! It's a spectacular novel, it's become a part of my life. The little girls are so life like, and their relationship is so typical of young sisters. Esther Freud really has a knack for capturing the agonies of being a young child (so many people assume there aren't any!) and the sights and smells of Morocco. I am this book's #1 fan!
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