They Call Me Mad Dog!: A Story for Bitter, Lonely People

By Erika Lopez

Book Overview

What do you do when love goes wrong? If you're Tomato Rodriguez, the reigning queen of motorcycle-riding, bicoastal bisexuals, you do every wrong thing there is to do. But what starts out as a small-scale revenge job complete with whipped cream, Bic ballpoints, and a monster truck, soon turns into a murder charge and a visit to the slammer with all the rest of the bad, bad girls. Traumatised by tough B movie one-liners and tedious lesbian orgies, Tomato decides to transform herself into Mad Dog, hoping that Ilsa the Wicked Warden will think her too crazy to be convicted on a murder rap.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684849429
• ISBN13: 9780684849423
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

The kinda girl you could come to love.

Everything Erica Lopez writes is tragically funny and will make you feel like the kind of fierce woman who will not stand meekly by when she is wronged, but instead will obsess about it and make poor, vengeful decisions - but they wil be decisive decisions! And when it all goes wrong, she'll love you anyway, and she'll be there to smoke too many cigarettes with you and laugh bitterly about everything. Read all her books, and then call me; I'm starting my own all-girl biker gang.

Hilarity and humanity

Lopez translates all the dirty human emotions that absolutely no one cares to discuss into text in 'Mad Dog.' The result is hilarious and a completely enjoyable read. Another plus is that it's a relatively easy and painless read. The illustrations are an added bonus.

It got me through the war in Iraq....

A friend in San Francisco mailed this to me last year just prior to the start of combat in Iraq. I sat up late at night with mortars and artillery booming, and laughed my ass off. To make matters worse, there was a guy in my platoon who is from the Castro who's mom and grandmother used to enjoy making cocktails and watching Matlock topless. He was talking about it one day (he's 18, and hadn't heard of the book), and when I showed it to him, he just had a strange look on his face and said he would call home when he could...

EMC and FMPs, Read to know!

This book is hilarious...I was literally laughing out loud...My friend recommended it to me, and I couldn't put it down...I suppose reading it in Sophomore Algebra wasn't the best plan, but at least I had enough sense to hide it from my mom, but I guess if you are a legal adult you won't have these problems...ENJOY!

A revenge fantasy for the masses!

Erika Lopez is a true Equal Opportunity Offender, in the ranks of Howard Stern and the Farrelly brothers (There's Something About Mary). Her humor is shriekingly, gross-out funny. I found myself screaming "EW! NO WAY!" out loud (and by myself) as I read Mad Dog. Aside from the incredible sound-bite imagery, the storyline makes you eat this whole book in one sitting. Mad Dog is a more fully realized narrative than Flaming Iguanas, showing Lopez' growth and confidence as a writer. Her artwork, as always, is gorgeous, this time geared more towards line drawings than stamp art, drawings of bodacious, Chiquita fruit bearing, thigh-weilding, pastie-wearing babes! A jilted Tomato aka Mad Dog Rodriguez is the antiheroine for anyone of any sexual proclivity who's ever indulged a revenge fantasy.