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  <title><![CDATA[Dark Property: An Affliction]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;A woman carries a dying baby across a desert waste, moving toward a fortress harboring a mysterious resurrection cult. Menaced by scavengers, she nevertheless begins to suspect that the reality within the fortress may be even more unsettling than the blasted environment outside. As she slips unobtrusively towards the city of the dead, she is pursued by a bounty hunter who cuts a bloody swath after her. On one level, Dark Property is an exploration of religious fanaticism. Although Evenson&amp;#8217;s characters owe more to the Book of Mormon than the Koran, their frightening intensity will spark recognition in both reviewers and readers. This brooding tale is reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy&amp;#8217;s Blood Meridian and J. G. Ballard&amp;#8217;s more disturbing works of fiction. &amp;#8220;I admire Evenson&amp;#8217;s writing and respect his courage.&amp;#8221; &amp;#8212; Andrew Vachss&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Brian Evenson]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Apr 08 13:19:53 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brian Evenson loves his prose and wants you to know about it.  He delights in awkward wordplay in the attempt to create clever obfuscations, force interpretations, and perpetuate cloudy confusions. Most of the time it works very well, occasionally it seems forced but even when it doesn't it always s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51969177">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Aug 28 09:46:19 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I may give this book five stars in the future, but I need more time to fully understand what I've read. This is so out of my normal range of literary fiction, I feel a bit lost. What I can say: this book is approaching language in intriguing ways.<br/><br/>Let's say your novel's set in some vague ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64955485">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In Dark Property, Brian Evenson invents a world where violent acts are not only second nature to the people in it, but they are their first thought. Violence replaces good manners. Whereas in our world two people meeting for the first time might shake hands or exchange kisses, Evenson's people stab ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7260669">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8466722">
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  <read_at>Sat May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Oct 30 22:12:03 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 30 22:28:26 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I let this slip off my lap in the bus aisle once during a soused post-gig bus trip, and a kindly gent handed it back to me: &quot;hey HEY, keep your LITTrature on your person!&quot; [laugh]. This was a squalorous time for me, and I think the squalid book and I just kept mocking each other un...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8466722">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18404872">
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  <date_added>Sat Mar 22 16:53:52 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[So, this was written years before &quot;The Road&quot; and tackles similar terrain, post-fallout nameless main character navigating charred terrain, etc. But this goes deeper into the violence and blood and dark, and has more characters, more story to it, and ends up being a kind of dark fable. I li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18404872">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3949874">
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 01 21:53:50 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 01 21:56:42 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A chilling little mystery of a book a hundred times better than McCarthy's &quot;The Road&quot; in a fraction of the space. Equal parts Poe and Matthew Barney (even though I don't really like M. Barney). Great book despite the easy criticism that it might be gratuitously violent.]]></body>
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    <review id="10047853">
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  <date_added>Thu Dec 06 12:54:59 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bleak, violent, surreal, and so so good. You learn to speak and comprehend a new language specifically designed to describe violence, kinda like *A Clockwork Orange*. Evenson is a writer that people should become familiar with.]]></body>
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    <review id="9746487">
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    <body><![CDATA[A better version of Cormac McCarthy's The Road--with creepy post-apocalyptic MORMONS! And it was written FIVE years before McCarthy's book..I smell a lawsuit...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wish I'd read the first few pages on Amazon. Would've saved money and learned all I need to know about this monotonous experiment. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This has some of the most amazing, inventive prose I've ever encountered.]]></body>
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    <review id="7706452">
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    <body><![CDATA[holy crap. what darkness. i'm going to take an aspirin and read it again. ]]></body>
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