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"Goose Restuccio, son of a Mafia kingpin joins a gang, the Reds. An enemy gang (the Blues) captures Goose and makes him have forced sex with a black girl, who becomes pregnant. The Reds and the black girl's friends align against the Blues and a greaser gang The Ramrodders."
John Wiessner, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- upbeat
Time/era of story
- 1960's-1970's
Romance/Romance Problems
Yes
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Crime & Police story
Yes
Story of
- gang conflict
Kind of sex:
- rape
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main char. serviced by prostitute?
Yes
Age group of kid(s) in story:
- high school
Something wrong upstairs/downstairs?
- searching for identity/meaning
Parents/lack of parents problem?
- rebelling against parent's expectations
Wild kid(s)?
- committing crimes
Taboo sex story?
Yes
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- eccentric
- obsessed
- mentally ill
- deluded
- emotionally unstable
- wild
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- student
Eccentric/Smart/Dumb:
Yes
Eccentric:
- obsessed
- deluded
- wild
- eccentric
- emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a substantial amount
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 7 (a good amount)
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Forest?
Yes
Farm/Ranch?
Yes
Farm/Ranch:
- farm
- lot of descript of crop raising
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- dumb Rednecks, like Gomer Pyle
- hostile, like Gomer Pyle on steroids
Misc setting
- moving train
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to torture
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- impregnation/reproduction
- actual description of hetero sex
- descript. of female anat. (the big B's)
- descript. of female anat. (the big V)
- descript. of nude males (the big P)
- rape/molest (yeech!)
Lot of foul language?
Yes
Unusual Style:
- a lot of play on words
- a lot of flashback and forwards
- a lot of stream of consciousness
- No single main character?
- written like a journal/diary/letters
Is this an e-book?
Yes
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