false 153612 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561m/153612.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561s/153612.jpg 153612 12 1388344 2003 Seven Types of Ambiguity total:970|5:313|4:349|3:229|2:57|1:22| 970 3784 1522 194 16091 3.71 1455 270 343607 33121 153612 1594481431 9781594481437 177 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561m/153612.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561s/153612.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153612.Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity 3.90 883 2003 5 5 false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Mar 20 11:12:32 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 20 11:18:41 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4378582 173702 153612 1594481431 9781594481437 177 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561m/153612.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561s/153612.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153612.Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity 3.90 970 2003 5 3 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 10 17:23:43 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 16 22:20:32 -0700 2007 A book that acts like a fine wine is hard to find: this one is such a book. It keeps getting better after it is finished being read; a very well-written work, it is magnanimous, comprehensive, lyrical, and prosaically refined, with a sharp eye on bringing out the depths of the ...more...]]> 2561019 161714 153612 1594481431 9781594481437 177 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561m/153612.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561s/153612.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153612.Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity 3.90 970 2003 2 3 false Sat Jun 30 08:10:21 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 30 08:16:50 -0700 2007
Type 1
Interesting. Not bad. Totally engaging. I have hope.

Type 2
Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah b...more...]]> 23681567 1209150 153612 1594481431 9781594481437 177 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561m/153612.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561s/153612.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153612.Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity 3.90 970 2003 5 6 false Wed Jun 04 08:55:01 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 09:00:29 -0700 2008
I love long boo...more...]]> 281576 28299 153612 1594481431 9781594481437 177 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561m/153612.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561s/153612.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153612.Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity 3.90 970 2003 0 2 false Wed Dec 19 07:57:50 -0800 2007 Thu Mar 15 13:41:21 -0700 2007 Thu Mar 15 13:45:16 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5356793 323130 1208676 157322281X 9781573222815 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181879285m/1208676.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181879285s/1208676.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1208676.Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity 3.70 27 Three Dollars and Seven Types of Ambiguity (which was shortlisted for Australia's top literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award, alongside J.M. Coetzee, Peter Carey and Shirley Hazzard), and his short story collection, The Reasons I Won't Be Coming.

Following years of unrequited love, an out-of-work schoolteacher decides to take matters into his own hands, triggering a chain of events that neither he nor his psychiatrist could have anticipated. At once a psychological thriller and a social critique, SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY is a story of obsessive love in an age of obsessive materialism. It's a story of impulse and paralysis, of empty marriages, lovers and a small boy, gambling and the market, of adult children and their parents, of poetry and prostitution, psychiatry and the law. Brimming with emotional, intellectual and moral dilemmas, this page-turning novel-reminiscent of the richest fiction of the nineteenth century in its labyrinthine complexity-unfolds at a rapid-fire pace to reveal the full extent to which these people have been affected by each other and by the insecure and uncertain times in which they live. Our times, now.]]> 2003 5 2 false Thu Aug 30 09:42:16 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 10:48:40 -0700 2007 Seven Types of Ambiguity is, without question, one of the best novels I have ever read. With that said, I am having a difficult time coming up with a way to describe what it's about without giving too much away. At its center, there's a kidnapping, but to say that this novel is about kidnapping is a...more...]]> 25046837 23218 153612 1594481431 9781594481437 177 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561m/153612.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561s/153612.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153612.Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity 3.90 970 2003 3 2 false Mon Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 21 06:28:33 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 18:29:11 -0700 2008
I have to say that for the most part I liked the differing viewpoints and think they served their purpose to illuminate the characters as you saw the same si...more...]]> 2871344 108460 1208676 157322281X 9781573222815 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181879285m/1208676.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181879285s/1208676.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1208676.Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity 3.90 970 Three Dollars and Seven Types of Ambiguity (which was shortlisted for Australia's top literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award, alongside J.M. Coetzee, Peter Carey and Shirley Hazzard), and his short story collection, The Reasons I Won't Be Coming.

Following years of unrequited love, an out-of-work schoolteacher decides to take matters into his own hands, triggering a chain of events that neither he nor his psychiatrist could have anticipated. At once a psychological thriller and a social critique, SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY is a story of obsessive love in an age of obsessive materialism. It's a story of impulse and paralysis, of empty marriages, lovers and a small boy, gambling and the market, of adult children and their parents, of poetry and prostitution, psychiatry and the law. Brimming with emotional, intellectual and moral dilemmas, this page-turning novel-reminiscent of the richest fiction of the nineteenth century in its labyrinthine complexity-unfolds at a rapid-fire pace to reveal the full extent to which these people have been affected by each other and by the insecure and uncertain times in which they live. Our times, now.]]> 2003 3 1 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 13:29:30 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 00:03:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 8183437 560018 153612 1594481431 9781594481437 177 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561m/153612.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561s/153612.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153612.Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity 3.90 970 2003 5 1 false Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Oct 24 11:03:16 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 24 11:08:39 -0700 2007
I was very pleasantly suprised to find that I was immediately hooked afte...more...]]> 9602653 261680 153612 1594481431 9781594481437 177 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561m/153612.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561s/153612.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153612.Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity 3.90 970 2003 1 1 false Tue Nov 27 09:38:02 -0800 2007 Mon Mar 31 09:44:38 -0700 2008 more...]]> 39335566 127158 153612 1594481431 9781594481437 177 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561m/153612.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561s/153612.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153612.Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity 3.90 970 2003 5 1 false Fri Dec 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 19:16:15 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 19:27:55 -0800 2008 Smart without being pretentious, gripping, well written, set in one of my favourite places and the characterisation is superb, and that's understating it.
Difficult to believe it's his first novel, or even h...more...]]> 50677714 2155518 153612 1594481431 9781594481437 177 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561m/153612.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561s/153612.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153612.Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity 3.90 970 2003 5 0 false Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Fri Mar 27 21:09:14 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 21:13:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 40825420 1401529 153612 1594481431 9781594481437 177 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561m/153612.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561s/153612.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153612.Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity 3.90 970 2003 5 0 false Wed Dec 24 07:58:59 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 08:14:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 58424612 2383462 153612 1594481431 9781594481437 177 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561m/153612.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561s/153612.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153612.Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity 3.90 970 2003 5 1 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jun 04 10:37:33 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 11:09:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 55768233 2310018 153612 1594481431 9781594481437 177 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561m/153612.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561s/153612.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153612.Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity 3.90 970 2003 5 0 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 12 00:40:28 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 00:13:48 -0700 2009 I think what carries this boo...more...]]> 58305418 1908735 153612 1594481431 9781594481437 177 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561m/153612.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561s/153612.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153612.Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity 3.90 970 2003 5 0 false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 11:19:48 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 11:26:57 -0700 2009 1
Even though I had to look up certain words in the dictionary a lot of times, I hope I understood everything that the author wanted to say to his readers.

Elliot Perlman's technique in writing the seven different po...more...]]> 76842340 2816068 153612 1594481431 9781594481437 177 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561m/153612.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561s/153612.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153612.Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity 3.90 970 2003 3 0 false Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 13:48:03 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 13:54:52 -0800 2009 more...]]> 51248582 2183931 153612 1594481431 9781594481437 177 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561m/153612.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172251561s/153612.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153612.Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity 3.90 970 2003 5 0 false Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 02 07:26:09 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 07:26:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 45459863 1008236 1208676 157322281X 9781573222815 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181879285m/1208676.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181879285s/1208676.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1208676.Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity 3.90 970 Three Dollars and Seven Types of Ambiguity (which was shortlisted for Australia's top literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award, alongside J.M. Coetzee, Peter Carey and Shirley Hazzard), and his short story collection, The Reasons I Won't Be Coming.

Following years of unrequited love, an out-of-work schoolteacher decides to take matters into his own hands, triggering a chain of events that neither he nor his psychiatrist could have anticipated. At once a psychological thriller and a social critique, SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY is a story of obsessive love in an age of obsessive materialism. It's a story of impulse and paralysis, of empty marriages, lovers and a small boy, gambling and the market, of adult children and their parents, of poetry and prostitution, psychiatry and the law. Brimming with emotional, intellectual and moral dilemmas, this page-turning novel-reminiscent of the richest fiction of the nineteenth century in its labyrinthine complexity-unfolds at a rapid-fire pace to reveal the full extent to which these people have been affected by each other and by the insecure and uncertain times in which they live. Our times, now.]]> 2003 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:28:46 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:28:46 -0800 2009 Seven Types, a bestseller in Perlman's native Australia, centers on the consequences of unrequited love. Simon's psychiatrist's monologue sets the stage for following narrators, who simultaneously move the story forward, confuse our understanding of events, and bare their souls. The ambitious novel ...

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