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    <body><![CDATA[Much like Dhalgren, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is more about the language, ideas, and experience than it is about plot, and like Dhalgren, my five star rating is more about admiration than enjoyment, though I did enjoy it.  <br/><br/>The book's universe is really interesting, and Delan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49407823">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A mature work.  Delany sets up his readers w/ all sorts of unexpected maneuvers.  This is a love story, but we don't discover that until we're more than 1/2-way through the book.  Truly a &quot;good read.&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's an excellent book, but an early Delany would have written this book at half its current length, and that would have been a huge improvement.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Easily one of the most difficult -- and rewarding -- books I've ever read, in that it teaches you how to read it. Brilliant and beautiful.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So amazing. The only slight problem I had with the text, and this is just my preference, is that the ending is indefinite. I see why he does it, though, and it makes sense. The idea that there could be such a thing as someone's &quot;perfect erotic object&quot; calculated mathmatically...that's a po...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37171707">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another one that I read and remember nothing of.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book made me feel like someone popped the lid off my skull, extracted my brain, placed it gently into a blender, set that blender to puree and ran at high speed for ten excruciating minutes, then poured the slop back into my head and screwed the top back on.<br/><br/>In other words, interesti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21822629">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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