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    <body><![CDATA[Distinctly Leyner, but without the punch of other books like My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist or Tetherballs at Bougainville. Fragmented postmodernist experimentation ranges from verbally sublime to tiresome between stories, pages, or paragraphs. Recommended if you've already enjoyed Leyner thorough...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11909871">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Yeah, early Leyner would be really popular if it was possible to read books while peaking on like 4 different types of drugs.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A community theater's production of Special Yearnings triggers a string of underground nuclear explosions from St. Louis to Worcester, Massachusetts. A man frantically swats at the blaze that his girlfriend has ignited in his trousers, while her family tries to figure out whether his agonized sign language means &quot;Under the Volcano&quot; or &quot;No Time for Sergeants.&quot; Charo, Marianne Faithfull, and Napoleon's sister swap glittering witticisms and pornographic come-ons with languid aesthetes and unhinged suburbanites.<br/>Such scenarios are just par for the course in this gloriously disorienting volume by <em>Mark Leyner</em>, author of <em>My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist</em> and <em>Et Tu, Babe</em>, and a writer who plays the English language the way Jimi Hendrix played the guitar: at blinding speed, dangerous volume, and with a perfect mixture of lyricism and sheer menace.]]>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved, loved, loved the first Leyner book I read (The Tetherballs of Bougainsville) and hated this one an equal amount. Lacking any of the consistency that makes Tetherballs outrageously funny, this book feels like intellectual punishment.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A community theater's production of Special Yearnings triggers a string of underground nuclear explosions from St. Louis to Worcester, Massachusetts. A man frantically swats at the blaze that his girlfriend has ignited in his trousers, while her family tries to figure out whether his agonized sign language means &quot;Under the Volcano&quot; or &quot;No Time for Sergeants.&quot; Charo, Marianne Faithfull, and Napoleon's sister swap glittering witticisms and pornographic come-ons with languid aesthetes and unhinged suburbanites.<br/>Such scenarios are just par for the course in this gloriously disorienting volume by <em>Mark Leyner</em>, author of <em>My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist</em> and <em>Et Tu, Babe</em>, and a writer who plays the English language the way Jimi Hendrix played the guitar: at blinding speed, dangerous volume, and with a perfect mixture of lyricism and sheer menace.]]>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe the third funniest of Leyner's weird books. I feel an unsettling kinship with this writer's brain. His sense of humor isn't for everyone, but if you're a weirdo needing a belly-laugh you need look no further.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A community theater's production of Special Yearnings triggers a string of underground nuclear explosions from St. Louis to Worcester, Massachusetts. A man frantically swats at the blaze that his girlfriend has ignited in his trousers, while her family tries to figure out whether his agonized sign language means &quot;Under the Volcano&quot; or &quot;No Time for Sergeants.&quot; Charo, Marianne Faithfull, and Napoleon's sister swap glittering witticisms and pornographic come-ons with languid aesthetes and unhinged suburbanites.<br/>Such scenarios are just par for the course in this gloriously disorienting volume by <em>Mark Leyner</em>, author of <em>My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist</em> and <em>Et Tu, Babe</em>, and a writer who plays the English language the way Jimi Hendrix played the guitar: at blinding speed, dangerous volume, and with a perfect mixture of lyricism and sheer menace.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Please explain whats so great about this guy? He has got great vocab and he is inventive, but whats the point?]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A community theater's production of Special Yearnings triggers a string of underground nuclear explosions from St. Louis to Worcester, Massachusetts. A man frantically swats at the blaze that his girlfriend has ignited in his trousers, while her family tries to figure out whether his agonized sign language means &quot;Under the Volcano&quot; or &quot;No Time for Sergeants.&quot; Charo, Marianne Faithfull, and Napoleon's sister swap glittering witticisms and pornographic come-ons with languid aesthetes and unhinged suburbanites.<br/>Such scenarios are just par for the course in this gloriously disorienting volume by <em>Mark Leyner</em>, author of <em>My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist</em> and <em>Et Tu, Babe</em>, and a writer who plays the English language the way Jimi Hendrix played the guitar: at blinding speed, dangerous volume, and with a perfect mixture of lyricism and sheer menace.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I used to think this book was better than it actually is.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A community theater's production of Special Yearnings triggers a string of underground nuclear explosions from St. Louis to Worcester, Massachusetts. A man frantically swats at the blaze that his girlfriend has ignited in his trousers, while her family tries to figure out whether his agonized sign language means &quot;Under the Volcano&quot; or &quot;No Time for Sergeants.&quot; Charo, Marianne Faithfull, and Napoleon's sister swap glittering witticisms and pornographic come-ons with languid aesthetes and unhinged suburbanites.<br/>Such scenarios are just par for the course in this gloriously disorienting volume by <em>Mark Leyner</em>, author of <em>My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist</em> and <em>Et Tu, Babe</em>, and a writer who plays the English language the way Jimi Hendrix played the guitar: at blinding speed, dangerous volume, and with a perfect mixture of lyricism and sheer menace.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[excellent stream-of-consciousness prose.]]></body>
    
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