- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction Ed edition (2 Nov 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 068485368X
- ISBN-13: 978-0684853680
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 19 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 570,269 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Feminist Bookstore News" Not for the faint of heart....Racy, raunchy, riotously funny, and hilariously incisive.
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Magdalena and I are gonna cross America on two motorcycles. We're gonna be so fucking cool, mirrors and windows will break when we pass by. We'll have our own hardcore theme music that makes us throw our heads back and bite the sky, and women wearing pink foam curlers in passing RVs will desire us and we'll slowly turn to them at seventy-five miles an hour and mouth "hello" back. Bugs may stick to my burgundy lipstick, but I'll just spit them back and they'll look all the prettier for it.
Yeah / cooool. Two party bags of drugstore ice on motorcyces. The sun wouldn't dare melt us because it would be a big, huge, major mistake.
We're gonna ride from armpit to armpit across the chest of America, joyridefull-throttle down the crack of Tennessee's ass. Bite a Grand Teton andgoose Amarillo, Texas.
Bypass Florida altogether because you get old there like "real" fast.
Sloppy kiss the greasy lips of Louisiana.
Caress the cool, clean underside of a butcherblock from a slaughterhousesomewhere in Montana.
Hey, there are a zillion ways to say you're going cross-country and Hallmark has a card just for you.
We'll be riding the cheapest motorcycles we can find / stopping every forty-five minutes for gas. Truck stop waitresses will wink and jam dollar bills in our happy little beautifully tanned fists, but we'll whisper "no thanks, " because we don't need it / we'll live off the fumes from our estrogen.
And we'll be spitting out mango pits like fucking bullets if anyone says anything about our huge Latin American breasts.
Copyright © 1997 by Erika Lopez
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I met Magdalena a few months ago when I accidentally ran over her cat in front of my apartment. Read the first page
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
a 90's book depicting a woman's sense of liberation,
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This review is from: Flaming Iguanas: An All-Girl Road Novel Thing! (Paperback)
"Flaming Iguanas" is one of those books that you can't put down. The main character inspires me to take advantage of my freedom and sieze the open road that lies ahead of me. Every woman should read this book; not only for the humorous text, but for the wonderful and imaginative illustrations Lopez creates.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Funny, funny stuff,
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This review is from: Flaming Iguanas: An Illustrated All-Girl Road Novel Thing (Mad Dog Rodriguez Trilogy) (Hardcover)
I was sitting, well actually squatting, in the bookstore and reading the first few pages of the book when I started laughing like a nut... Well people stared, so naturally I purchased it to avoid making a scene, and what a wise purchase it was. It's crazy, it's funny, it's so much more readable than "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". I felt empowered, I feel inspired, gosh darn I want a motorcycle gang too, and maybe someday I'll cross Canada and write a novel comparable to this.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Female Ejaculating Bisexual Quakers Unite,
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This review is from: Flaming Iguanas: An Illustrated All-Girl Road Novel Thing (Mad Dog Rodriguez Trilogy) (Hardcover)
This book is a different experience from the start. The paper is similar to grocery bags, the typeface wavers on the line, and almost every page is decorated with rubber stamp art, doodles, and calligraphy. But there's an intriguing story here, too, not just a fancy presentation. Tomato Rodriguez sets off on a motorcycle she can barely ride, as a motorcycle gang of one (the Flaming Iguanas), to cross the country and reunite with her ailing father, who runs a sex toy shop with his girlfriend. Lopez definitely stands many of the conventions of the male road novel on their heads. When I tried to guess how things would end up, I was rarely successful, and I like that in a book. Still, I thought there were places that she abandoned a character or a plot line just as it was starting to bear fruit. Lopez implies that the book is semi-autobiographical, and it's hard to know whether it's the "truer" parts are the places where the plot veers as awkwardly as Tomato steering on gravel. The strength of this book is its characterization. There are no strong male characters in this book, but they are not uniformly disgusting or stereotypical, a fault some feminist authors fall into. The portrait of her therapy-overdosed, boundary-obssessed lesbian mom is wonderful ("I imagined all of us protected by invisible squares of masking tape on the floor that followed us wherever we walked like hoop skirts, and if anyone crossed over into our space we were allowed to shoot to kill, the way you can when burglars break into your house.") Let me leave you with the quote that will, I believe, provide the ultimate litmus test as to whether this book is for you: "I wanted a Bisexual Female Ejaculating Quaker role model. And where was she, dammit? From now on I would demand to be represented." Go on. Ride on the wild side.
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