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    <body><![CDATA[experimental, deeply ironic, hipster novel about a guy in new york city and his adventures with sex and working for a global capitalist.  it was insufferably misogynistic, and i still don't buy the basic assumption of much of hipster culture that irony is an adequate excuse for being offensive.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i read this book tonight in 3 hours... ( i am not sure but i think i had already read it, for lack of anything better to read i re-read it.) does that make sense?<br/>ha! <br/>this book had a alot of good points to it and i really couldn't figure out if it was trying to tell you to do something wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11067283">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in a matter of about 3-4 hours while traveling.  I was happy I had it with me because it kept me entertained albeit a bit disturbed.  I can't give this book more stars because it was like everything else that ends.  Maybe its just me though becuase I hate the endings of everything m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14369846">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first book I've read in this genre (which is what, I am still not sure). I almost gave up on it a handful of times, but it was just all so curious and totally bizarre. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read FUCK-UP and enjoyed it, but this one just bombed for me. <br/>The character was pretty pathetic (in a generic and uninteresting way) and the story and writing, cliche. I just couldn't really root for the protagonist and as a result, didn't care too much what happened to him. (He seemed to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24616003">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Typical Nersessian, set in NYC with interesting characters and a twisting plot that circles and folds as the main character searches for himself in an almost surrealistic story that reminded me a little of Kafka's The Trial except Nersessian is a lot more fun.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was an OK book. Not nearly as good as &quot;The Fuck Up,&quot; but still a fairly entertaining read. The ending was a bit too much for me, shoving the entire story almost to a complete hault - but sitting back and thinking about it makes me laugh a little bit now.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this book may have just been written about me.  this guy cant get a leg up on life!  such a fast read and desperately funny.  if you like this one check out another of his books written with the same type of desperate humor called &quot;the fuck up&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[oh yeah... i read this book because it was sitting on the floor at peets house and i was bored. took about eleven oldstyles to finish it, and now i have no idea what it was about.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[a little slow toward the beginning of the book but nersessian manages to work in a message somehow.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not my favorite Nersesian, but reading him always feels a little like coming home.]]></body>
    
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