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Flirtin' With The Monster: Your Favorite Authors On Ellen Hopkins' Crank And Glass (2009)

by Ellen Hopkins(Favorite Author)

4.07 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1933771674 (ISBN13: 9781933771670)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Smart Pop

review 1: This book is a continuation from Ellen Hopkins’ books Crank, Glass and Fallout all based on the life her daughter chose and how drugs changed not only her life but the life of those around her. This is a non-fiction book written in two parts. The first part is made up of contributions by a group of Ellen’s peers which include other authors/poets, a counselor, and a judge. Each one of the essays that is written by Ellen’s peers highlights different aspects of addiction and how it affects the person and others around that person. The second part of the book has contributions from those in Ellen’s family directly affect by her daughter’s addiction, Ellen’s husband, other daughter, her addicted daughter and her addicted daughter’s first child. This gives ver... morey personal insight to each person’s perception and effect of the daughter’s addiction and how it changed their lives and relationship with the addict. This is a very powerful book and really makes a person think about their own lives not to mention those in someone’s life. Very well written.
review 2: I had to read this for my English class (because we can't read CRANK and GLASS at my school). I was blown away! Even though Hopkins wrote her stories about her daughter's meth addiction, they aren't 100% truth (for the sake of their privacy).Hopkins says that CRANK was 60% truth and 40% fiction. GLASS was 70% truth and 30% fiction. That is easy to understand why she wanted privacy. Said that, the story line is the same. My class had to read each section and take a written test each week. And to see how much we actually learned we had to write 7 things in detail about it. I soon found out that it was not as hard as it looked. This book is a work of nonfiction, and a very good example of that. I think that even though some of us groaned and complained, we got the message Ellen Hoopkins was trying to get across: "This can happen to everyone. Be careful. Drugs are bad...They can mess up anyone, even a straight A student." All in all, I was blown away! less

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