false 131526 5 In this fiendishly original new novel, <i>Mark Leyner</i> is a leather-blazer-wearing, Piranha 793-driving, narcotic-guzzling monster who has potential rivals eliminated by his bionically enhanced bodyguards, has his internal organs tattooed, and eavesdrops on the erotic fantasies of Victoria's Secret models - which naturally revolve around him. Leyner's jet-propelled roller derby through the cultures of celebrity, cyberpunk, and rabid egotism is exhilaratingly bizarre, exhaustingly funny - and you'd better hope it's just fiction. 1247799 book 24 8 1993 Et Tu, Babe total:451|5:113|4:177|3:123|2:27|1:11| 451 1707 574 48 5 0 false false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 11:36:22 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 16:38:51 -0700 2009 lots Et Tu, Babe after a few years of not much Leyner (though I did read the first coupl...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Apr 02 13:04:04 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 02 13:04:36 -0700 2007
Think of Sedaris on peyote.]]> 1 1 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Oct 15 17:49:08 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 15 17:49:40 -0700 2007 2 0 false false Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 14:44:47 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 06:14:46 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Thu Dec 04 16:38:07 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 16:38:40 -0800 2008 The Mark Leyner of Et Tu, Babe would then simply clock them in the chops with a pool cue and satirize them into submission.

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On the one hand, it was an amusing read, pure and simple. On the other hand, it was completely lacking in plot or anything that a story "should" have. I'm not sure that this book is supposed to function like a normal story, howeve...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Mar 30 19:34:33 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 30 19:55:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 24 18:52:19 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 18:54:11 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 29 09:58:12 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 09:58:12 -0700 2009 I appreciate it's experimental nature, though, for whatever that's worth. ]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 07 21:40:53 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 21:43:08 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 03:41:42 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 03:43:18 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Wed Dec 03 20:19:25 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 20:20:32 -0800 2008
also, any book that has a satirical chapter about making doughnuts is worth reading.]]> 5 0 false false Sun Apr 26 08:55:56 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 08:56:32 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Thu Jan 01 10:40:14 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 10:41:17 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 17:07:31 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 17:08:30 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 15 09:19:58 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 09:20:44 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 04:16:02 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 04:05:26 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Dec 27 19:23:47 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 19:23:47 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Sun May 17 07:45:38 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 07:46:09 -0700 2009