Flaming iguanas : an illustrated all-girl road novel thing

Häftad bok. New York : Simon & Schuster. 1998. 272 sidor.

Gott skick. 18 x 18 cm. Språk: engelska. Richly illustrated.
Tomato Rodriguez hops on her motorcycle and embarks on the ultimate sea-to-shining-sea all-girl adventure -- a story that combines all the best parts of Alice in Wonderland and Easy Rider as Tomato crosses the country in search of the meaning of life, love, and the perfect post office.
Flaming Iguanas is a hilarious novel that combines text, line drawings, rubber stamp art, and a serious dose of attitude. The result is a wild and wonderful ride unlike any you've ever taken before. "Not for the faint of heart...Racy, raunchy, riotously funny, and hilariously incisive." (Feminist Bookstore News).

Krystal Bernier rated it: it was amazing
Recommends it for: Any woman who doesn't offend easily
Shelves: fiction-graphic-novel
I absolutely loved everything about Flaming Iguanas. Although raunchy and hilarious, Flaming Iguanas reveals important life lessons, points out the idiocies in American culture, and oozes femininity. In Flaming Iguanas we join Tomato on her motorcycle journey from New Jersey to San Francisco. Along the way Tomato searches for the meaning of life, love, and the perfect post-office. This is the first novel in Erika Lopez's Mad Dog Rodriguez Trilogy.

This book "had me at hello": the cover and pages are beautifully illustrated by Erika herself and the wild font helps set the carefree tone of the novel. I included a few pictures of the illustrations that pepper the pages of Flaming Iguanas so you understand my random love affair with this book. This book is gorgeous; I love love love pretty and unique books.

"The more you're aware of anything, the worse off you are in the long run because you have to live with yourself." - Erika Lopez, Flaming Iguanas

"It was the kind of thing that brought a blurry Vaseline mist to my eyes and made the world seem so sweet." - Erika Lopez, Flaming Iguanas

"Nothing could be less sexy than being responsible for someone else's life on a motorcycle that cars don't see." - Erika Lopez, Flaming Iguanas

"Let me tell you: D-cups are not designed to jump up and down on beds. They're also not designed to run after buses or to hurry up for anything. And you know a D-cup woman is having an absolutely fantastic time when she's on her back and doesn't lock her arms to her side to keep the cleavage alive." - Erika Lopez, Flaming Iguanas