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    <body><![CDATA[This is a rare document. An experimental postmodern fiction artist named Mark Leyner makes crazy word collages, byzantine temples of thought in a nihilistically symbolic universe. Be careful not to get your head caught! I read this in brief spurts while I worked in a bookstore and it is a definite h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29085933">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Leyner writes hyperkinetic gonzo prose which is a mutant hybrid between William Burroughs at his most schizoid and Dave Barry at his most laugh out loud. This is gag-a-minute writing for A.D.D. addled avant guardists drenched in the toxic jetsam of pop culture. I'd post some exceperts but I lent the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10254900">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[From a blog post I wrote in 2005:<br/>Some readers may think I like every book I read. Well, this book disproves that theory. Author Mark Leyner's book was described as &quot;Brilliant mutant prose&quot; by the San Francisco Examiner. I think a more accurate description is &quot;Nonsensical drivel....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7533923">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Mark Leyner has many unique and bizarre turns of phrase in *My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist*, but the novelty wears off after thirty or so pages as one begins to question what the story is really about. At a superficial glance it seems to be about nothing--it seems to be about warped perception, a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29532036">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book will make you schizophrenic! Not really, but it has some good reads. The schtick gets awfully old around the half-way point and at time it feels like he's just throwing crap up against the wall for the sake of non sequiter and the reader (you) is getting jerked around. Great avant-guarde, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55388681">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[twee little dessert item from a time when po-mo writing was the shite. kathy acker kicks this guy down a flight of stairs, literarily speaking. still, some enjoyably oddball passages keep the interest, much like listening to someone go on and on during their acid trip....mainly irritating, at times ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63108981">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Mark Leyner is a literary anarchist. His stories are wild creatures that evolve like bursting fireworks. He seems to care little for delivering some kind of straight forward story structure and opts to instead just have fun. Some of Mark's stories are so funny and clever that it is hard to picture s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53759364">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I realize &quot;hate&quot; is a strong word, but I really do hate this guy's writing and the genre to which it belongs.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[MCMG is great, but flawed, in that it is very stylistically similar to William Burroughs.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[dont remember the plot but i remember that it was crazy and enjoyable.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the funniest, strangest and most brilliant books I've ever read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Super weird short stories. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Discovered in <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4339.David_Foster_Wallace" title="David Foster Wallace">David Foster Wallace</a>'s essay &quot;E Unibus Pluram&quot;, the opening shot of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6748.A_Supposedly_Fun_Thing_I_ll_Never_Do_Again_Essays_and_Arguments" title="A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again  Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace">A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again</a>. Heralded as the apogee of &quot;image-fiction&quot;. I intend to pick this up from the GT bookstore this afternoon.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30781421">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't understand this book at all, although I'm aware that wasn't the point, but I did really admire the sentences and the words. Mark Leyner knows a lot of words and can write a lot of unpredictable and wonderful sentences. This is completely worth reading for that reason. Also it possibly may h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14528567">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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