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    <body><![CDATA[Rosenbaum's stories are eccentric, weird and wonderful. Anything can happen in one of these stories and often does, like a girlfriend turning into yellow gumballs in the title tale or a virus that traps everyone in exactly the age they were when it hit in &quot;Start the Clock.&quot;<br/><br/>My p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45193978">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The title story is wild and line-crossing and so well written. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Surreal and pleasantly loopy. That's a good thing, right? These stories are mostly light&#8212;some <em>very</em> light, one-page mood pieces that reminded me more than a little of some of the better posts to the Usenet newsgroup talk.bizarre, back in its heyday in the 1990s.<br/><br/>Rosenbaum's already high-pr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73274053">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first few stories in this book are actually the weakest in my opinion -- or maybe Rosenbaum's internal logic just made more sense to me as I read on.  Many of these tales combine seemingly unrelated ideas in unexpected ways, like the incredible &quot;Sense and Sensibility,&quot; a gloss on Jane ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53609690">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A cool anthology, with a wide range of stories.  I didn't like most of the &quot;slipstream&quot; fiction.  Perhaps I didn't understand the symbolism or themes Rosenbaum was trying to explore.  The Ant King and The Orange were really the only two that I liked.  The rest were pretty lame.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52504528">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Benjamin Rosenbaum is my new favorite writer of science fiction because...<br/><br/>...he imagines a waterfront district where old women cruise grandmothers' bars.<br/>...he has written not one, but several, one-page stories that have altered my hope for the future.<br/>...when he writes about a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31099410">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this wacky writer.  Every chapter is a different story of a different bird...figuratively.  I don't think there are more than one bird story.  He made me laugh like no other.  Maybe it's the age and having children thing.  Mark wasn't as keen on him.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read about one-third of this story collection and enjoyed much of what I read.  Rosenbaum doesn’t create traditional plots or three-dimensional characters so much as he paints weird little, dream-like fables.  The best of what I read were the very short, very surreal stories “The Fig” and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34031559">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved it.  Very whimsical, incredible stories that relate to real life problems and some that have nothing to do with anything but are purely entertaining.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[These stories are at once playful and brilliantly insightful. Careful when you pick this book up. You won't put it down until it's finished.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Please understand, my 4-star reviews should probably be 5s; 3 stars from me is like 4.  Make no mistake, The Ant King is good literature.  At his best, Benjamin Rosenbaum's tales remind me of Donald Barthelme's.  Pieces like &quot;The Blow&quot;, &quot;Fig&quot; and &quot;Red Leather Tassels&quot; a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40941536">more...</a>]]></body>
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