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  <title><![CDATA[Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels - The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula by the Black Tarantula, I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac - Imaging, the Adult Life Toulouse]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula by the Black Tarantula; I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac; The Adult Life of Toulouse-Lautrec by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1992</original_publication_year>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[angry women who dislike narrative]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Sun Jul 01 11:14:34 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book so I could read The Adult Life, but I also read the first two novels first. Individually, I'd probably give Black Tarantula and Nymphomaniac each one star &amp; The Adult Life four, though I probably appreciate Adult Life much more having read the other two first. Adult Life has the c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2594019">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very bizarre book of short stories.  but enjoyable none the less]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm still quite early in the first story of this collection, but I am finding it too...dated in its archness, its stream-of-consciouness asides and jumping time and place.  Maybe I am completely misreading it, or maybe it will even out, but it feels very opaque so far.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[All three of these short novels are readworthy and totally memorable...I actually preferred her pared down Nymphomaniac to the other two...but these are all masterful works...her gift for parody is pretty much nonpareil...make no mistake...if Swift were born in this age he would probably be as fluen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7842128">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Aug 03 11:47:23 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[You know, I understand that she's attempting to overturn established concepts of identity with her nonlinear narrative, and her use of the formal aspects of these stories to do that is intelligent.  I just couldn't bring myself to enjoy any of these stories.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Oct 01 14:39:04 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A difficult non-linear read with some deeply funny moments. Best line: &quot;No one will ever fuck me cause I'm a hideous cripple!&quot;.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As Vanessa Place once said, &quot;Kathy fucking Acker.&quot;  Hats off to the roaring girl.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[HOT. the kind of book you dog-ear to share later on...]]></body>
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