This thing is different than anything else. ItÕs so expertly vacuolated! It enables me, somehow, to createÑto hang my own literary entrails on the skeleton of elemental form. By camouflaging its native interior light, it somehow unveils my own.
ÒWeird.Ó
ÑShauna Reaves (high school English teacher)
ÒWe sit around at night with Hood Cooper and a stop-watch, and see who can read it the longest without bustinÕ up.Ó
ÑMike Brewster (mechanic)
ÒMy friends say IÕm lying when I tell them I get it. Plus, my parents leave me alone now.Ó
ÑTrevor Langley (seventh-grader)
ÒBefore reading Hood Cooper; An Urban Tale, I was diagnosed as being clinically neurotic. Reading Hood Cooper did not relieve my neurosis. It did, however, seem to ÒcoatÓ it in a kind of paranoiac psychosis.Ó
ÑSkeeter McCoy (meter reader)
ÒI like this book. It reminds me of É. my sofa.Ó
ÑWilla-Jean (housewife)