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Timequake 191 reviews
Kurt Vonnegut
Berkley Trade, 1998
Coda
+ A master's hand
+ Did I Miss Something? No, This Book is Just Awesome
+ Shaken, Not Stirred
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Bloodsucking Fiends 145 reviews
Christopher Moore
Harper Paperbacks, 2004
Bloodsucking Fiends
+ bloodsucking fiends
+ Best Modern Day Vampire
+ New to Moore, will have to read more...
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Pnin (Penguin Modern Classics)2 reviews
Vladimir Nabokov
Penguin Classics, 2000
Pnin Is A Stange Little Book
I really like this book. It really is a sad little tale which
reminds me of the quite desperation of my own life. I felt sorry for
Pnin when I read this book. It is a short read but a good one.
John
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The Confidence-Man (Oxford World's Classics)9 reviews
Herman Melville
Oxford University Press, USA, 1999
An American Classic on the Nature of Trust
+ The Confidence-Man explores the masquerade of life in all its variety.
+ American River Boats
+ Ah, sweet charity.
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Infinite Jest350 reviews
David Foster Wallace
Back Bay Books, 2006
One of the best...
+ Infinite Jest
+ GREAT AUTHOR,GREAT BOOK
+ A True Classic
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Portnoy's Complaint101 reviews
Philip Roth
Vintage, 1994
Funny, Influential, Modern, Psychological Jewish Novel -- that's well worth your time...
+ Laugh-out-loud hilarious!
+ I thought this was a book about gangsters
+ Great Reflection of 1969 and Jersey Jews [52][T]
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 93 reviews
Tom Robbins
Bantam, 1990
even cow girls get the blues
+ hot hot hot
+ my favorite
the product is fine but the sender was very slow in delivery, they charged a premium for shipping and used media shipping which to me is slightly underhanded. i will not order anything else from that provider.
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Wise Blood: A Novel49 reviews
Flannery O'Connor
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
"Stop one minute to listen to the truth because you may never hear it again."
+ Current Favourite Novel
+ Anyone Who Had a Heart
+ Grotesque Comedy
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics)52 reviews
Laurence Sterne
Penguin Classics, 2003
Postmodern before modern
+ I wish I'd had an Uncle Toby
+ Pre-modernist postmodern
A line from the movie "adaptation" put it best: this was a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post to.
Simply put, Laurence Sterne threw out all the literary conventions of what a novel should be and how it should be arranged, a few hundred years before more recent writers ...
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Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S.39 reviews
Jeremy C Leven
AuthorHouse, 2000
One of the best books I ever read !!!!!!!
+ What a find!
+ Simply a fantastic, if somewhat indescribable, book
+ Excellent book, highly recommended to all
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Norwood16 reviews
Charles Portis
Overlook TP, 1999
The Eternal Truth of the Simple Man
+ An American Everyman
+ Norwood
+ Didn't Want it To End
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The Third Policeman78 reviews
Flann O'Brien
Dalkey Archive Pr, 2002
An Astounding Pancake
+ Dark, chatty, surprising, suspenseful, and weirdly funny
+ Before Its Time
+ Modern, more adult Alice in Wonderland
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At Swim-Two-Birds (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series)41 reviews
Flann O'Brien
Dalkey Archive Press, 1998
at swim-two-birds
+ The funniest book you will ever read...
good book. read it after i read gilbert sorrentino's piece on it from "Something Said".
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Slaughterhouse-Five705 reviews
Kurt Vonnegut
Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1999
One of the best
+ Slaughterhouse-Five
+ Well-Deserving of it's "Classic" Status
+ So it goes.
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Kiss of the Spider Woman26 reviews
Manuel Puig
Vintage, 1991
for the footnotes
+ "Reality . . . Isn't Restricted by This Cell We Live In"
+ An unlikely friendship, and some plot twists...
+ Very visual gay "Thousand and One Nights"
+ kiss of the spider woman
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Very Good, Jeeves!7 reviews
P.G. Wodehouse
Overlook Hardcover, 2006
Jeeves & Bertie #3
+ Troublesome Glossops and More
+ Very, very good
+ good; one story had me rolling
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Naked413 reviews
David Sedaris
Back Bay Books, 1998
Absolutely fantastic
+ Painful to read, mostly plotless, but entertaining
+ FRANCINE!!!
+ David Sedaris is hilarious
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Modern Baptists9 reviews
James Wilcox
Louisiana State University Press, 2006
One of my favorite books.
+ Funny portrait
+ Wilcox is a master of subtle, all-too-human comedy
+ The funniest novel I have ever read
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Jane and Prudence7 reviews
Barbara Pym
Moyer Bell, 1999
Sheer bliss, even the 10th time around
+ Married, not married
+ Jane, the Matchmaker
+ "I never read anything my mother reads."
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Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things5 reviews
Gilbert Sorrentino
Dalkey Archive Press, 2000
A masterpiece of failure, burning with ferocity and affection
+ Almost a masterpiece
+ Great when not an in-joke
+ The perfect vaccine for overgrown egos
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