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    <body><![CDATA[GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In this post-apocalyptic near-futuristic novel, the Algerians have taken over the Parisians, hearts are empty and violent sex of all kinds (heterosexual, homosexual, no ages disqualified) are frequent and the norm.  The story is told from two perspectives: Thivai, a pirate, and Abhor, only part huma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7098827">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I taught this and managed to traumatize a few students, light up the minds of a few more, and mildly intrigue the rest.<br/><br/>Acker is one of the brainiest writers of graphic violence that there is. Are there others this violent and this brainy? <br/><br/>A more internally metafictional novel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26043270">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bleh bleh and more bleh.  That's all.  I read it because I had to...but I wouldn't recc. it to anyone.  It was all pretentious, purple prosed fluff, any multi-syllabic group of words thrown together to impress.  Put the thesaurus down, Kathy Ackers, and pick up some heart.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Acker's strange writing is very compelling. If you are ok with reading postmodern fiction with little coherent plot you will find Acker's writing very critical of and very indebted to the modern mechanical and violent society.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was unlike anything I had read at the point I read it. Probably my first flirting with anything post modern, before Borges even.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sorry, I went into this enthusiastically, but this book did not do it for me.  Maybe I should have read Don Quixote instead.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You never forget your first Acker. Of course the Apocalypse is personal!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[incredibly twisted and disturbing, but beautifully written, in a way.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The really interesting part of this book was the harsh critique it made on the conditions of living in Paris. Even though Empire of the Senseless was written in the 90's its description of Paris seemed to trace out the reports from Paris of the recent riots there with an eerily accurate voice.  <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/822393">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was reading this book my senior year of college, along with William Burroughs and Henry Miller. I wound up basing much of my senior thesis art work on parts of this book. I got to meet Kathy at a book signing once and she was an engaging and modest woman. It's a shame she died so young.]]></body>
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