Reviews for Kids in the Loop: Chicago Adventures for Kids and Their Grown-Ups

The average rating for Kids in the Loop: Chicago Adventures for Kids and Their Grown-Ups based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-09-15 00:00:00 Dick Griebel probably my favorite autobiography of all time.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-04-01 00:00:00 Alexander Platt I love everything Jones/Baraka wrote in his younger days. He was the most intense, brilliant, fearless of the black writers of the '60s. His plays -- "The Toilet," "J-E-L-L-O," "Slave Ship" -- were eviscerating, and his essays -- "Home" --had a skewering depth that nobody else reached. But like the rest of us, he got older, and though he didn't exactly lose his edge, by the time of the autobio (1984) he'd lost the cohesion that made his writing unique. I can read 3 or 4 pages of this at a time, but it's exhausting without being enlightening. I'm hoping that if I give it to a thrift shop, somebody in these very white hills will pick it up, but I doubt that.