- Hardcover: 257 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (General list, Trade Division) (23 Jun 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0684837226
- ISBN-13: 978-0684837222
- Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 18 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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- #85 in Books > Gay & Lesbian > Literature > Fiction > Bisexual
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To all of you who left comments:Hey, thanks for laughing
You don't know how great it is to hear I'm getting other people in trouble for laughing out loud. I'm used to getting kicked by own friends or pulled over by the police in certain states for laughing until my face turns inside out. Yeeha! Ladies and gentlemen, my work here is done... I'll see you in hell. Or in New Jersey.
You don't know how great it is to hear I'm getting other people in trouble for laughing out loud. I'm used to getting kicked by own friends or pulled over by the police in certain states for laughing until my face turns inside out. Yeeha! Ladies and gentlemen, my work here is done... I'll see you in hell. Or in New Jersey.
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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
Format: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
Format: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
Format: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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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Absolute chick book
From floating cat ghosts' to big Canadian Johns. I was rolling on the floor, in bed and at the laundrymat. I must now devour whatever else Ms. Lopez has to offer.
Published on 20 Jan 1999
The Great American Road Novel, late-90s version
Recently, on my own book tour, I happened to ask a sales guy at Shaman Drum Books in Ann Arbor if he could help me. Read more
Published on 16 Dec 1998
Deliciously inspiring and knock-down, drag-out hilarious!
I first read this book about a year and a half ago and have been shamelessly forcing it on all friends/family/acquaintances/farm animals since then! Read more
Published on 2 Nov 1998
a tough girl with a soft spot
As a european woman, I read this book while travelling through the U.S. and it was so....appropriate. It was just the perfect book to read while travelling. Read more
Published on 17 Oct 1998
Great Fun...I felt the wind in my teeth
This was such a fun book...I still feel as though I took the ride with Erika. I loved this book so much I sent a copy to my rather conservative Dad.
Published on 24 Sep 1998
not just for girls.
with the homogenous gender status in this set of reviews one might get the impression that this book is only for women. not true at all. Read more
Published on 15 July 1998
one heck of a ride!!!
i read this book last summer mostly sitting on my porch in the sun and laughing out loud through the whole thing. Read more
Published on 27 Mar 1998
Hope for the publishing industry!
This book renewed my hope in publishers, readers, retailers, you name it. It shows that not everyone is afraid of something new, wild, and completely uncategorizable. Read more
Published on 8 Mar 1998
The best book I have ever read
Tomato is my heroine. Flaming Iguanas is a book every woman should read. It captures perfectly the search for identity and freedom many women are experiencing. Read more
Published on 22 Nov 1997
fun feminist road trip
This novel is an easy read, though might be a little rauchy for some readers--no holding back on bluntness--I like that though--a tough lady on a motorcyle without a clue as to... Read more
Published on 13 Sep 1997
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