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Hairstyles of the Damned (Punk Planet Books) 41 reviews
Joe Meno
Akashic Books, 2004
An incredibly honest look at what goes on inside the head of a teenager.
+ The Unwieldy Hammer of Thor!!
+ Thick 'n Thin
+ if you ever loved. if you ever hated.
+ Highly recommend it
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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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How the Hula Girl Sings5 reviews
Joe Meno
Akashic Books, 2005
POW! now that's what i call a story!
+ Lyrical, Poetic Neo-Noir
+ A great surprise!
+ You should really read this book
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The Fixer: A Novel48 reviews
Bernard Malamud
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004
our modern selves
+ a surfeit of persecution
+ a painful account of injustice, anti-semitism and defiance
+ A brief and painful history of why Christians were annoyed by Jews and what they did about it
+ Hmmmm................................
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Demons in the Spring 2 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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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running24 reviews
Haruki Murakami
Knopf, 2008
Brilliant, Beautiful
+ Murakami is a Cool Runner
+ A single review
+ Inspirational
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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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Joe 1 review
Jonathan Safran Foer
Prestel Publishing, 2006
Simply breathtaking
This is a beautiful photo book in the large format it deserves to be in. The pages are superb and the text moving. I bought this as a gift and I can only imagine the look of joy on the recipient's face when I give it to them. A must have for photography lovers or admirers of Jonathon Safran Foer.
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel289 reviews
Haruki Murakami
Vintage, 1998
Patience and Growth Yields Great Reward
+ A certain "something" that is bizarre and intriguing
+ Excellent read
+ Think for yourself
+ Chronicle of the Lost
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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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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel319 reviews
Jonathan Safran Foer
Mariner Books, 2006
Incredible
+ Good book for a book club discussion
+ Beautiful
+ A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
+ Flawed but still very good.
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel (Vintage International)135 reviews
Haruki Murakami
Vintage, 1993
Patience is a virtue
+ another catching Murakami adventure
+ Another trip down the rabbit hole
+ A wonderful novel about the mind and the desire for immortality
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Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel 404 reviews
Jonathan Safran Foer
Harper Perennial, 2003
One of the best books ever written
+ everything you could wish and fear life to be
This is my second favorite book. The imagination and narration is simply fantastic. I have never experienced imagination as beautiful as the telling of TrachimBrod. Every chapter about this city is glowing with incredible anecdotes and interesting characters. In fact, Brod is by far the best ...
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What Is the What166 reviews
Dave Eggers
McSweeney's, 2006
What was the What?
+ What is What is the What
+ Heartbreaking and uplifting
+ a must read
+ Incredibly Moving
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Watch Out54 reviews
Joseph Suglia
FLF Press, 2006
Do Watch Out--But Absolutely Read
+ Serious Reading Make No Mistake About It.
+ Watch Out Will Change Your Life...or at Least Give You a Good Tickle
+ Best Thing Written in Ages
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Knockemstiff48 reviews
Donald Ray Pollock
Doubleday, 2008
Welcome to planet Knockemstiff!
+ America's Lumpenproletariat ...
+ knockemstiff
+ Wow
+ Stories better than the one I just read.
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Dance Dance Dance71 reviews
Haruki Murakami
Vintage, 1995
Not Your Normal Senior Prom
+ Three cheers for the Sheep Man
+ Japan's Magic Man
+ if only we all understood japanese
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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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The Elephant Vanishes: Stories52 reviews
Haruki Murakami
Vintage, 1994
Intriguing novel
+ A wonderful introduction
+ Surreal landscapes
+ Great stories!
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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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