A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

Orlandito "Dito" Montiel, son of Orlando, a Nicaraguan immigrant, and an Irish mother, grew wild in the streets of Astoria, Queens, pulling pranks for Greek and Italian gangsters and confessing at the church of the Immaculate Conception, gobbling hits of purple mescaline and Old English, sneaking into Times Square whore houses?"Kids from nowhere going nowhere." This is the quintessentially American story of a young man's hunger for experience, his dawning awareness of the bigger world across the bridge, and of the loyalties that bind him to a violent past and to the flawed and desperate saints that have guided him: Dito's father, Antonio "our insane warrior hero," Bob Semen, Frank the dog walker, Jimmy Mullen, Cherry Vanilla, Ginsberg and all the others, the drunks, coke-heads, junkies, the insaniacs like Santos Antonios who said, "Now Dito remember, in life you gotta be crazy."

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3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-31-2009; A distinctive voice; I believe this book deserves to be read purely on the merit of its title. And what a great title it is. Dito Montiel was a child of the eighties. This book is full of his stories of eating popsicles, smoking weed, onto the hard stuff,...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-06-2008; Great Book and Movie.; I saw the movie before I purchased the book. I really enjoyed the movie and I had to buy the book to make the comparison. While I found them to be quite different I really enjoyed both in their places. The book was scattered at times but...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-23-2008; Looks like Kerouac, but isn't; There are stretches of this book that sound like the writer is channeling Jack Kerouac. In fact, sometimes the channeling is so faithful that you could even mistake it for plagiarism. But this reallyisn't anything like The Dharma Bums...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-18-2007; See the movie but skip the book; I really liked the movie version of "Saints" for its gutsy portrayal of Dito's experience coming of age in Astoria. Unfortunately, the screenplay is far superior to the book. The book starts with Dito's early years but merely skims the...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-06-2008; Great Book and Movie.; I saw the movie before I purchased the book. I really enjoyed the movie and I had to buy the book to make the comparison. While I found them to be quite different I really enjoyed both in their places. The book was scattered at times but...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-31-2009; A distinctive voice; I believe this book deserves to be read purely on the merit of its title. And what a great title it is. Dito Montiel was a child of the eighties. This book is full of his stories of eating popsicles, smoking weed, onto the hard stuff,...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-23-2008; Looks like Kerouac, but isn't; There are stretches of this book that sound like the writer is channeling Jack Kerouac. In fact, sometimes the channeling is so faithful that you could even mistake it for plagiarism. But this reallyisn't anything like The Dharma Bums...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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