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Home Sweat Home: A For Better or For Worse Collection (For Better or for Worse Collections) | 
 enlarge | Author: Lynn Johnston
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 38651
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 8.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 0740770969
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5971
EAN: 9780740770968
ASIN: 0740770969
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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"Lynn Johnston is cartooning's reigning master at combining gags with continuity. Her ongoing story of the Patterson family has been one of the most beloved strips for years." --Atlanta ConstitutionLynn Johnston's For Better or For Worse is the world's most popular family strip in which characters have evolved through age and experience, rather than remaining frozen in time. In Home Sweat Home, moves are afoot aplenty. John and Elly downsize to a new home and Mike and Deanna buy the family homestead to raise their children as a new generation fills the Patterson legacy. Romantic moves abound, too, as Elizabeth has her heart broken only to have it won back by Anthony. April turns sixteen and will soon by driving--which is driving her parents crazy. - In September 2007, Johnston made an unprecedented move for a cartoonist; she introduced a new format by using current plot lines as a jumping-off point to revisit past storylines that complement the new ones.
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 A good book August 27, 2008
The life of the Patterson Family continues. Hardship and pain, relationtion ships and children. Lynn still projects the sense of Family and real world in her comics.
 Another Great Book August 16, 2008
I have loved all of Lynn Johnstons books. I have almost everyone of them and love to reread them from beginning to the latest one. Her cartoon family and mine have grown up together. I feel like I have good friends sharing the same problems and joys.
Another great collection. August 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have followed "FBOFW" for many years. Was even pregnant at the same time that Elly was "pregnant" with April. Lynn Johnston captures the ups and downs of family life like no one else. Very enjoyable read!
Another great compilation of hers. May 13, 2008
Done it again. I absolutely love For Better or For Worse. The only thing better than reading the series in the paper daily is getting these themed collections of the strips to read over and over again. You can't go wrong here.
 This 30-year-old fairy tale slowly draws to a close. May 11, 2008
2 out of 11 found this review helpful
It's the only place where funny, spoiled kids magically transform into extremely good-looking grown creatures with good-looking kids of their own to raise - or simply ignore in favor of writing global bestsellers to rake in great fortune and fame.
If one of those kids haven't married yet, she will come home like an obedient cow in spite of being a mouth-watering, adventurous babe with flowing honey hair and full lips who teach bright-eyed young Native American children (who can easily manipulate her into anything) to meet some ho-hum nerd she has known from childhood and humbly settle into the same lifestyle as her own mother and her silly friends who had dutifully lived through bad decisions they made as young housewives.
It's also the only land in the whole world where heavyset, homely girls who take five minutes to finish a sentence can team up with stunning vixens like April to fight against the evils of stuck-up popular kids and jealously guarded cliques to make life better for ANYONE who isn't beautiful or rich or 100% physically perfect (like...well, April and Elizabeth are.)
In spite of their very breathtaking appearance, our lovable imaginary friends still end up in confusing mishaps anyway. Michael and his family bravely face down literally odorous neighbors, insane in-laws, a fire, a hot night, and of course, squabbling brats. Beautiful young Elizabeth courageously dodges jealous rivals, their disgruntled little daughters she would HAVE to adopt as her own, still another horny pervert who falls drunken into her arms, her approaching old age, and of course, the reality about her future husband, who had openly lusted after her even during his first marriage. And the youngest princess, April is just so sweet and PRETTY she had been cruelly betrayed by her best friend, Becky, who has turned a famous pop tart (like Britney Spears!) and Gerald, who just wanted her body, of course. At least the black kid who hangs out with April seems like a decent friend - for now, that is.
Just like this comic strip, Elly's time is slowly coming to an end. That's why she looks the way she does now. So does Connie, who humbly knows that they are no longer centerfold material (and have never been anyway.) But at least the elderly ladies mercifully get a time travel ride back into the good ol' days (the old reruns, of course), which really AREN'T "good ol' days" after all as poor younger Elly screams, fusses, scolds, nags, and chases after two young mischief-makers around the house three decades ago.
Ironically, this isn't really the wistful, dreamy fairy tale it is today.
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