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The Boy Detective Fails (Punk Planet Books) 17 reviews
Joe Meno
Akashic Books, 2006
Enormous Games
+ Successful rendering of apathy, failure and meds.
+ Emo mystery moody and enchanting
+ 90% psychosis, 110% great story......Wait....
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Vintage International) 10 reviews
Haruki Murakami
Vintage, 2007
good entrance to Murakami's world
+ Like Gems Wrapped in Velvet
+ Sweet Enigma
+ Introduction to Haruki Murakami
+ Airplane
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Snuff 97 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk
Doubleday Canada, 2008
Not as good as his other books
I hate to be mean to authors because they're giving it their best (or at least I hope so), but this book made me feel like Palahniuk is just writing because it's his job. It wasn't a gripping tale like Fight Club or even Diary, and it was only 180 pages so it's only entertaining for a day. He ...
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Running with Scissors: A Memoir 821 reviews
Augusten Burroughs
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2006
Wonderful read for good laughs
+ A Childhood Undesired: A Review of Running with Scissors
+ A humorous romp through an unusual childhood
+ Liked the Movie Better
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A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel110 reviews
Haruki Murakami
Vintage, 2002
a wild sheep chase, a while fantasy
+ Fantastically Odd
+ A Wild Sheep Chase indeed
+ Brilliant writing, won over a skeptic
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I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir (P.S.)68 reviews
Josh Kilmer-purcell
Harper Perennial, 2006
Easily the Best Book I've Ever Encountered
+ What's it like being a gay Drag Queen in NYC?
+ a world that is very far from my own, but very entertaining!
+ warts and all is an understatement...
+ Wonderful writer
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Sellevision: A Novel136 reviews
Augusten Burroughs
Picador, 2003
Another Great Showing From Burroughs
+ Good first try
Sellevision was recommended to me by a friend, who suggested the book because I love the writing of Max Barry (of Company and Syrup fame). It turned out to be a great match.
Sellevision is a hilarious book -- simultaneously dark humored and lighthearted. It follows the lives of four hosts on the ...
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Demons in the Spring2 reviews
Joe Meno
Akashic Books, 2008
Joe Meno is amazing
Middle class suburban magic surealism. Characters are interesting without being overdrawn. They are familiar yet none are stereotypes.
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Candy Everybody Wants (P.S.)9 reviews
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Harper Perennial, 2008
Fasten your seat belt, and put phasers on STUN-ning!
+ Wonderful, witty, creative, BRILLIANT!
+ Another Great Book
Reading kind of like a VH1-style "I Love the 80's" special on steroids, "Candy Everyone Wants" is a madcap, extremely "over-the-top" story of a rather eventful year in the life of Jayson Blocher, a joyously flamboyantly gay boy from a small town in Wisconsin. A series of events lead to his leaving ...
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2009 Writer's Market Deluxe (Writer's Market Online)5 reviews
Robert Brewer
Writers Digest Books, 2008
Writer's Market 2009 review
+ Every Writers' Bible No Matter How Experienced You Are
+ Excellent Writers Tool
The Writer's Market 2009 Deluxe Edition is vastly updated from the 2007 edition, which I had. There are at least 100 new Literary Agents catalogued in the text, which is what I was looking for. Also, the online resources may prove to be very useful.
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2009 Writer's Market10 reviews
Robert Brewer
Writers Digest Books, 2008
Writer's Market
+ Writer's Market Invaluable!
+ 2009 Writer's market
+ Good Buy
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I Am Not Myself These Days68 reviews
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
BANTAM PRESS (TWLD), 2006
Easily the Best Book I've Ever Encountered
+ What's it like being a gay Drag Queen in NYC?
+ a world that is very far from my own, but very entertaining!
+ warts and all is an understatement...
+ Wonderful writer
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After Dark (Vintage International)78 reviews
Haruki Murakami
Vintage, 2008
Mesmerizing
+ Superb.
+ Intriguing, but with too many loose ends.
I think this is the most down-to-earth novel by Mr. Murakami that is published now but with a touch of his earliest novels. I admire his recent novels but I also love his previous ones. This one has that mysterious, voyeuristic, supernatural, surrealist feeling of his recent novels but somehow, the ...
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Infinite Jest (traduzione di edorado nesi)
david foster wallace
fandango libri, 1996
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Kafka on the Shore179 reviews
Haruki Murakami
Knopf, 2005
Weird is what you pay for...
+ yes to Kafka
... and weird is what you get, with Haruki Murakami. But this novel is not merely full-blown weird; it' s about the meaning of Weird, not just in the modern sense of 'bizarre' but in the root sense also. 'Weird' is an Old Norse word meaning something like "the uncanny ability to influence Fate." ...
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The Road (Oprah's Book Club)1602 reviews
Cormac McCarthy
Vintage Books, 2007
Apocalyptic Love
+ A Thought-Provoking Nightmare
+ Skeptical but pleased
Cormac McCarthy amazingly makes the relationship between father and son remarkably warm in the cold environs of post-apocalyptic United States - after the bomb or something similar has incinerated all of nature. The two main characters, each nameless and referred only as man and boy, allow us to ...
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Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir: Stories2 reviews
Joe Meno
Triquarterly, 2005
Bluebirds Used to Croon
+ Good and Lonely
Chicago's own Joe Meno is a playwright, musician, a music journalist, the author of three novels (Tender as Hellfire, How the Hula Girl Sings, and Hairstyles of the Damned), and now, Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir, a collection of short stories that just won the Society of Midland Authors ...
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Possible Side Effects100 reviews
Augusten Burroughs
Picador, 2007
Possible Side Effects
+ Very good-
+ My first Burroughs
+ I LOVED this book!
+ Freaking Highlarious
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The Elephant Vanishes: Stories52 reviews
Haruki Murakami
Vintage, 1994
Intriguing novel
+ A wonderful introduction
+ Surreal landscapes
+ Great stories!
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Tender As Hellfire18 reviews
Joe Meno
Akashic Books, 2007
Excellent
+ A Dangerous Novel
This novel does a wonderful job of drilling into your head just how stagnant and alienated a child must feel after being forced into such an unpleasantly dull environment during his formative years. The author's voice is exceptional, and few stories I've read have had such unique characters. Each ...
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