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  <title><![CDATA[Blood and Guts in High School: A Novel]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;Jamey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a whore. Otherwise there was nothing. One day she found a pencil stub and scrap of paper in a forgotten corner of the room. She began to write down her life, starting with &quot;Parents stink&quot; (Her father, who is also her boyfriend, has fallen in love with another woman and is about to leave her). With &quot;Blood and Guts in High School, &quot; Kathy Acker, whose work has been labeled everthing from post-punk porn to post-punk feminism, has created a brilliantly subversive narrative built from conversation, description, conjecture, and moments snatched from history and literature. &lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1978</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kathy Acker]]></name>
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    <name><![CDATA[Ren]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I ran into Acker via these kids I lived next door to when I was about 23. They ate a lot of E and Acid. I was listening a lot of Patti Smith and PJ Harvey at the time and they were like &quot;here, Kathy Acker&quot; and I read it and I really liked it. You can analyze Acker's work all you want. I'm ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15111252">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8053228">
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    <name><![CDATA[megan]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[you]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Oct 21 21:33:07 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 21 21:38:52 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mr Fuckface: You see, we own the language. Language must be used clearly and precisely to reveal our universe.<br/>Mr Blowjob: Those rebels are never clear. What they say doesn't make sense.<br/>Mr Fuckface: It even goes against all the religions to tamper with the sacred languages.<br/>Mr Blowjob: ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8053228">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="3078235">
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    <name><![CDATA[Scott]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Jul 14 14:14:58 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 14 14:16:37 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Seriously, what's this supposed to be? I love a good anti-novel as much as the next pretentious hipster, but don't just slap together a bunch of stuff and then bore me to death with it.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3078235]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="39813986">
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    <name><![CDATA[Stephanie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Mission Viejo, CA]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[people who like to read books solely for shock value]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Dec 10 15:32:32 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 11 23:02:49 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely the worst book I have ever read, and I've read a lot of books. This was horrid. The only reason I read it was because it's on the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list, and I am now obsessed with reading every book on the list. Up to this point, it hadn't really steered me wrong. T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39813986">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39813986]]></url>
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    <review id="9761330">
    <user id="407044">
    <name><![CDATA[Nomy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Francisco, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Nov 30 09:47:25 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 30 09:59:43 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[okay a disclaimer.  this book is weird and racist and has fucked up incest fantasies and a million things that might make your skin crawl.  it's also poetic and experimental in a way that was really inspiring for me as a nineteen year old trying to find my voice.  like, none of the rules about writi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9761330">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9761330]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="19301319">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kelli]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[people who hate everything and want to change nothing. ]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Wed Apr 02 11:28:30 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed May 07 17:28:45 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[ok, so, do you want my honest opinion?  well, i'm going to give it to you anyway. <br/><br/><br/>if you really, really like the following words repeated over and over and over until you can't think straight, then this book is for you:<br/>-cunt<br/>-fuck<br/><br/>so i thought there would be m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19301319">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19301319]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="57896811">
    <user id="412055">
    <name><![CDATA[Kerfe]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat May 30 18:17:59 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat May 30 18:36:16 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Is this pornographic?  The sex is here, but it doesn't seem real, even with graphic illustrations.  From incest to sex slavery, I'm sure it's supposed to be symbolic in some way.  Acker's character Janey is an amplification of the sense of oppression and misunderstanding adolescents feel, with polit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57896811">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57896811]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="71641696">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kasey]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Sep 18 02:38:32 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 18 02:43:29 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here's a polarizing one, huh?  I read some Acker in college - you know, back when my hair was purple, my stereo was screaming with angry grrrl singers, and the world was just. not. ready. for. my. brilliance!  I liked it then.  It felt subversive and important.  In fact, it felt a whole lot like all...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71641696">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71641696]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="47643788">
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    <name><![CDATA[Zelda]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 26 17:45:08 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm on the fence about this one.  I'm appreciative of all the space she opens up in terms of form/structure and not being bound by conventional expectations of narrative (plot/character); of the dialogue she's in with American Lit (Hawthorne) and the classics and contemporary lit. theory.  I'm uncle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47643788">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47643788]]></url>
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    <review id="34417582">
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    <name><![CDATA[Melanie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Swarthmore, PA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 02 22:06:49 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with my brain, or at least with my memory/reading comprehension/retention abilities.  This happens when I read multiple works by the same author in a short period of time; I go on a spree, devouring everything I can find by a particular writer, and at so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34417582">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34417582]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="32966880">
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    <name><![CDATA[Celestthebest]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Sep 15 19:41:49 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this, and two other books, abandoned in my campsite at the Sand Dunes in Colorado, otherwise I would never have intentionally picke a book like this to read...<br/><br/>This is a fictional autobiography about a girl named Janey Smith.  Janey's mom dies while she's a baby, leaving her with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32966880">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32966880]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="2550025">
    <user id="156533">
    <name><![CDATA[Rob]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Essex Junction, VT]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading context: during the 2000-2001 period I am frantically working my way through my SMP at SMCM, writing 5-10 pages per day (on a good day) of new material (most of which will be culled) and reading approx. 20 pages per day of novels (or essays by those novelists) plus 10-20 pages per day of ess...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2550025">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2550025]]></url>
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    <review id="64184955">
    <user id="2540264">
    <name><![CDATA[Trevor]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sun Jul 19 23:37:17 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 22 22:27:59 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really expected to like this book, but just couldn't get into it.  Like her mentor Burroughs, or his buddy Brion Gysin, the theory behind Acker's literature is compelling, but the product really isn't--at least not for long (I quit after 50 pages, twice).  I admire this stuff--it's punk as fuck, s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64184955">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64184955]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="19284534">
    <user id="25483">
    <name><![CDATA[Carolanne]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 02 07:54:17 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Apr 02 07:55:10 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 02 07:54:17 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't do it! I don't think I can finish this book. Its so wrong and sick and gross. the first like 15 pages are all about how she has sex with her dad. and there are pictures in it of penis ejaculating and vaginas and stuff. its seriously is fucked up. I can't believe I have to read this for SCHOO...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19284534">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19284534]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="40749226">
    <user id="698826">
    <name><![CDATA[Alan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United Kingdom]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Tue Dec 23 07:13:46 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[well I don't know, just a mishmash I thought but then I'm not in the demographic (although I was nearer when I read it - must have been, oh, forty then).]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40749226]]></url>
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    <review id="62931807">
    <user id="2508475">
    <name><![CDATA[Michael]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Florence, KY]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jul 10 11:27:26 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 10 11:28:20 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Had to read this in grad school.<br/><br/>I'm usually not a fan of book burning.<br/><br/>But, burn the &amp;^%$ign book as soon as you can!<br/><br/>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62931807]]></url>
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    <review id="61113023">
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    <name><![CDATA[The Arcane Master]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Albuquerque, NM]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[I 1st heard about Acker thru my friend Charlie Brohawn in the 1970s.  He was always a good source of info &amp; he was excited about Acker because he'd heard that she made plagiarism a literary philosophy.  When I finally got around to reading this bk many yrs later, I hated it.  To make matters worse, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11995617">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not for the faint of heart. Oh boy. I'm still reeling from that book. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The illustrations. . . . prepare yourself. . . . that's all I'm saying.]]></body>
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