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  <title><![CDATA[The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Angela Carter]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Mar 10 07:43:53 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 17 08:17:12 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The second in the collection of three Carter novels that I'm dutifully working through.  This one started out very promisingly with all the hyper-literary stuff, but got tedious, adventure after adventure harking after the same psychosexual ideas (minor *spoiler*:  by the time we got to the religiou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17433477">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20550972">
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    <name><![CDATA[Amanda]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Santa Barbara, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun May 04 10:10:26 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Apr 19 19:26:16 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 04 10:10:26 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm baffled by the other reviewers calling this book &quot;erotic&quot; or &quot;sexy.&quot; Yes, there's a lot of sex; but at least 90% of it is rape in one form or another, including some episodes of child rape. If you find this book sexy, there is something seriously wrong with you.<br/><br/>Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20550972">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54400414">
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[read for European Film &amp; Fiction Class]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Apr 29 14:46:21 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Apr 29 14:51:38 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Part 1:<br/><br/>	After completing the introduction and chapter one I was completely drawn into the novel's events and characters, desperate to know the entire story.  I love Carter's flourished writing, even though at times it seems a bit much (because it can be a lot to take in), but fortunately...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54400414">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7914571">
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    <name><![CDATA[Braden]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Ottawa, Canada]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Fans of philosophical sci-fi]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 18 19:22:17 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 18 19:23:45 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This quasi-philosophical science fiction with an erotic twist is a strange movel to say the least. But it is incredibly interesting, and very well written by Carter who has a very definite style.<br/><br/>It's not the type of book one can breeze through...you have to read and think about every wor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7914571">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10730835">
    <user id="408843">
    <name><![CDATA[megan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[those into super highbrow british pomo scifi]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 26 11:27:27 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Dec 19 21:17:24 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 24 10:19:30 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Doctor Hoffman aims to take over the world by dismantling time and implanting reality with surreality/ our desires made real. published the same year as Anti-Oedipus, hard to know if she's pulling from D&amp;G's desiring machines or what, but the two are definitely linked. <br/>fantastic sequences incl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10730835">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74188551">
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    <name><![CDATA[Phae]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Somewhere in, BC, Canada]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Oct 11 14:07:19 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 11 14:15:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A hallucinogenic trip. A city transforms into a magical world where fantasies become real, but along with the magic comes nightmares. Instead of a paradise, this dreamworld turns into a slaughterhouse. The dreams and nightmares alike are generated by Doctor Hoffmann, a character that seems to be the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74188551">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42337156">
    <user id="1882449">
    <name><![CDATA[Jon]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Flagstaff, AZ]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 1990</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 08 06:31:26 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 08 06:40:00 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Reading this book about young people trapped in a sinister alternate reality created by the eponymous Dr. Hoffman, you enter an extraordinarily dense fantasy world where anything can and does happen, some of it beautiful, much of it highly disturbing on a deep, almost primordial level. It's like ste...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42337156">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32616484">
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    <name><![CDATA[Stephanie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Toronto, Canada]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <date_added>Thu Sep 11 11:16:09 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 17 08:00:22 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought an omnibus novel of Carter's works and this was the second book of the three.  I enjoyed the Magic Toybox, but this one I just wasn't impressed.  The story is unique and disturbing at times, there appears to be a theme that humanity's base desires are cruel, misogynistic and sadistic/masoch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32616484">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31960040">
    <user id="275411">
    <name><![CDATA[Amy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Bothell, WA]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Sep 03 19:08:05 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 03 19:17:40 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[this book is very smart. as a friend of mine and i used to say, 'it's very meta.' it's a story, but it seems to be a story that's just a big complicated metaphor for a lot of intellectual concepts that are popular in literary criticism, like the male gaze and subject/object relationships.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31960040">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21117662">
    <user id="1118970">
    <name><![CDATA[Jamie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Williamsburg, VA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[theory-heads, hardcore Carter fans]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Apr 27 14:44:30 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 04 12:50:57 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Warning:  this book is not for the faint of heart.  Warning (Pt. II):  this book is not for the dull of wit.  Well, I should rephrase.  This is by no means a beach read, a rainy day read, a quick-n-easy read.  As with most of Carter's work (well, all I've come across, anyhow), you'll likely scratch ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21117662">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56508824">
    <user id="974210">
    <name><![CDATA[erik]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[no one]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1983</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon May 18 12:47:44 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon May 18 12:51:26 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count>1</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[This novel is a mix of fantasy, science fiction and what the author may have thought was eroticism.  I found the fantasy too outrageous (she mixes several traditions, losing, I think, the power that one might have provided), the science fiction too fantastic and the eroticism completely uncompelling...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56508824">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21660506">
    <user id="1141673">
    <name><![CDATA[jainabee]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Lopez Island, WA]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[untanglers of riddles, wordsmiths]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Maya]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon May 05 15:28:37 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 06 15:55:34 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The tension between reason and passion in this book makes me feel like I'm being pelted by champagne snowballs while sitting in a hot tub of Mexican cocoa. Carter is a wicked, wanton wordsmith; a cerebral chanteuse of the silent opera that is a novel.<br/><br/>It is bitterly difficult to find a de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21660506">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11461036">
    <user id="365191">
    <name><![CDATA[Daniel]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Seattle, WA]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jan 02 12:05:29 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jan 02 12:11:06 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was recommended this after asking for something along the lines of Mervyn Peake's &quot;Gormenghast&quot;, only written by a woman.  And while I don't think this was an accurate comparison on the part of the employee, I'm glad he made the recommendation.<br/><br/>This is a strange book.  The plo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11461036">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26604342">
    <user id="937542">
    <name><![CDATA[Lucy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <date_added>Mon Jul 07 20:14:23 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 07 20:14:23 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Holy cow, what a trip!  I remember very little of this book except that it was completely bizarre and that I thought the author was just going for shock value.  Of course, I don't recall what I found so shocking about it.  I read it for a class in college and have no recollection as to what the hell...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26604342">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="1185248">
    <user id="82944">
    <name><![CDATA[Bob]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[New York, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1991</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun May 13 07:04:00 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 13 07:04:00 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I was going to describe this as sort of like magic realism, but looking at the wikipedia article on the subject, I see it is considered very firmly in the genre - much more dystopian than Gabriel García Márquez or someone like that though - this and Nights At The Circus are my two favorites of her...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1185248">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1185248?utm_medium=api]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="17930246">
    <user id="798917">
    <name><![CDATA[Kevin]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 15 12:28:15 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Mar 17 07:48:11 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 17 07:56:34 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[For anyone interested in literary criticism including everything from cultural to psychoanalytical to sexual to historiographic metafiction, this book delivers on many levels. Brilliantly written and fantastically complex, the book follows Desiderio through amazing and perverse adventures.]]></body>
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</review>
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    <body><![CDATA[ATTN: Haruki Murakami<br/><br/>Read The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman. Take notes. Learn from it. That is how surreality is done.<br/><br/>What a brilliant book. One of the best I've read.  HIGHLY recommended to everyone who loves great prose and playing with the laws of reality.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely crazy but fascinating book. Which is why it's taken me a awhile to read. Plus the fact that Penguin's type font is really small and hard to read. Angela Carters paints a strange and fascinating and memorable world, which makes it easy to come back to later.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i do like how colorful and surreal this book is, but being about 30 pages in, the introductory descriptions are lingering on and on... it needs to move on to another point now.<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tis about an evil genius disintegrating society and establishing totalitarian ecstasy. And the requisite reluctant battling hero. Reason V cataclysmic desire. <br/><br/><br/> ]]></body>
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