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  <title><![CDATA[The Fuck-Up]]></title>
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  <default_description>Arthur Nersesian's underground literary treasure is an unforgettable slice of gritty New York City life...and the darkly hilarious odyssey of an anonymous slacker. He's a perennial couch-surfer, an aspiring writer searching for himself in spite of himself, and he's just trying to survive. But life has other things in store for the fuck-up. From being dumped by his girlfriend to getting fired for asking for a raise, from falling into a robbery to posing as a gay man to keep his job at a porno theater, the fuck-up's tragi-comedy is perfectly realized by Arthur Nersesian, who manages to create humor and suspense out of urban desperation. &quot;Read it and howl,&quot; says Bruce Benderson (author of &lt;I&gt;User),&lt;/I&gt; &quot;and be glad it didn't happen to you.&quot;&lt;P&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1997</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Fuck-Up</original_title>
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[you know when you buy a book based on the cover or title, essentially ignoring one of the more famous phrases that have to do with judging and books and covers?  well this was that kind of purchase.  i'm sure i'm not alone.  a sparse cover.  an intriguing title.  just don't forget about the progtago...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6849867">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Feb 23 19:16:02 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Mar 06 08:21:55 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm going through a relationship crisis right now, and for some twisted reason I felt that reading and carrying this book around would be like a little act of rebellion - would let me &quot;own&quot; my own fucked-up-edness. I'm glad I did, because, even though I've only read the first chapter, it m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47325664">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18321547">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[nincompoops of the basest degree]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[a leg-humping dog]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Mon Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Mar 21 14:25:57 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 24 20:14:22 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having read “Story of the Eye”, “A History of Orgies”, and “Crash” within the last month, I was determined to give up reading and write a story of my own, inspired by the filthy aforementioned tales, which I tentatively titled “Whores On All Fours”.  The idea was to chronicle my own ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18321547">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18321547]]></url>
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    <review id="28357436">
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    <name><![CDATA[Nita ]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Brooklyn, NY]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jul 26 11:06:43 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 28 09:05:33 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[To pick up a book and realize that you're currently living in that situation doesn't make the book more interesting. In fact it's like looking into a crystal ball of failure and of lost hope. Granted I'm not as fucked up as the main character, but I'm sure as hell not that far removed from his life....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28357436">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28357436]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="44597032">
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    <location><![CDATA[Duluth, MN]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 27 20:48:56 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 27 22:11:05 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Let's call this epidemic &quot;runaway book.&quot; This is where I begin reading something funny. I'm dog-earring pages like crazy. A writer's voice is so clever and sassy that I start to imagine that my own word document privileges should be revoked. <br/><br/>And then, runaway book. This time, I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44597032">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41731979">
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    <name><![CDATA[Malvolio]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 03 11:55:02 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 06 17:39:34 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[crap. no continuity. the guy didn't even know what he was talking about. even mildly homophobic and offensive, and not in a good way. <br/>god. i should have known better... i mean MTV books? oops. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41731979]]></url>
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    <review id="38174717">
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  <date_added>Wed Nov 19 16:50:12 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 19 20:02:52 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Picked this up several years ago and probably mostly because of its minimalist cover and the fact that it said &quot;FUCK-UP&quot; in huge letters (hey, it doesn't take a lot to grab your attention at 16). The fact that it was an MTV approved book probably didn't hurt, as I was brainwashed at the ti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38174717">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38174717]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="64283249">
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    <name><![CDATA[Hannah ]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Ridgewood, NY]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 20 17:06:34 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 20 17:18:54 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh man!  I remember finding this on the shelf in the St. Augustine Barnes &amp; Noble when I was twenty and being like Whoah that says FUCK right on the cover, and buying it and reading it and liking it kind of pretty okay but NOW I live in New York and I see Arthur Nersesian all over the place and the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64283249">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64283249]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="34245853">
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    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Tue Sep 30 19:32:58 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 30 19:34:02 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an interesting book, by a guy I'd never heard of...Reminds me of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288.The_Road" title="The Road by Cormac McCarthy">on the road</a> in New York.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="3157146">
    <user id="187043">
    <name><![CDATA[Laura]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Sunnyside, NY]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 16 21:57:16 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unimpressive. Although the story is engrossing, Nersesian's prose style is forced--it seems to me as though he were trying too hard to produce a hybrid of Trainspotting and The Catcher in the Rye.<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="53796447">
    <user id="2252374">
    <name><![CDATA[Todd]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Denver, CO]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Apr 23 22:20:23 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 23 22:47:38 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you're sitting at home enjoying a nice glass of wine, sitting on your favorite lounge chair with this book on your lap...you're much better off than the tragic protagonist in Nersesians' &quot;the fuck-up&quot;. This was the first of 4 books I've read by this author and I'll keep coming back for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53796447">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53796447]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="41761242">
    <user id="1860323">
    <name><![CDATA[Michael]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Lake Jackson, TX]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jan 03 15:58:03 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 03 16:05:04 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a top of the line book I always had it sitting around but never read it. Finally one day I just decided to pick it up and give it a look and I finished it in like two days I hardly put it down.<br/><br/>Its about a dude thats literally a &quot;Fuck up&quot; no matter what he does he cant ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41761242">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41761242]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="47627680">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jail]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Oakland, CA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 26 14:58:01 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Mar 05 14:32:26 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a great combination of hilarious and pathetic life. The charactor's continuing downward slide is funny up to a point and then in the last third of the book becomes heartwrenching. Nevertheless I didn't totally enjoy the actual ending even though I liked the events that led up to it. Fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47627680">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47627680]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="66941342">
    <user id="126596">
    <name><![CDATA[Kevin]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Northfield, MN]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[so, sometimes, when i finish a book, i think to myself: &quot;man, that was the worst book i've ever read.&quot;  finishing the last page in &quot;the fuck up,&quot; was one of those moments.<br/><br/>at no point did i enjoy reading this book.  at no point did i care about the main character.  i f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66941342">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34452682">
    <user id="1338928">
    <name><![CDATA[Devon ]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Jersey City, NJ]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Fri Oct 03 12:33:07 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 03 12:40:46 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[not a bad book, especially if you live in new york. there is a sadness in this book, its reflected in the changing of new york in the 80s. the disapearance or altering of places that were once familiar and home like.<br/>there will be spoilers after this.<br/>the nameless character goes on sort of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34452682">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24392438">
    <user id="1027443">
    <name><![CDATA[Matt]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Seattle, WA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Fri Jun 13 04:28:20 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 13 04:28:32 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book because I couldn’t find “Valley of the Dolls”.  The name jumped out at me because I felt like I had been wearing my fuck-up boots lately and wanted to see how bad my situation really was.  If anyone could paint a more fucked up scene, it’d be an author.  This story is abou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24392438">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24392438]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="17641192">
    <user id="773230">
    <name><![CDATA[jack]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Francisco, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone age 17-37, anyone just out of college, fuck-ups]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Mar 12 19:50:54 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[so, when i started reading this book i thought, ha ha, this book is a little bit about my own follies and foibles. the fuck-up (the character never has a name) cheats on his girlfriend and gets kicked out of his house, he's fired for asking for a raise, he pursues a girl who uses him to feel better ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17641192">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[mediocre at best. back when i was all over the perks of being a wallflower, this book came out around the same time (republished by the same people who did perks). it was on my wishlist for a long time, then i took it off. but i saw it at a used book store this summer and bought it. waste of money. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48352077">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So well written it feels like an autobiography. Terribly depressing at the same time, you want to slap the main character and tell him just to get his shit together. But then you remember the title and feel dumb for getting so wrapped up in a book. But then you remember, hey, this is better for me t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41646930">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The placement and cover of this book caught my eye. How could I not pick it up to see what it was about? The back of the book promised me it was &quot;darkly hilarious .&quot; Perhaps it was my current state of mind, but I found little dark humor in the story although it is a wonderfully well writte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64699805">more...</a>]]></body>
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