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published
2008
by Ellipsis Press
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paperback, 116 pages
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0963753614
(isbn13: 9780963756318)
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"Dark… with clipped sentences and pungent passages, [Waste] concerns a janitor whose use of office workers’ waste and personal objects is que...more
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Read in January, 2009
I have friend call amilcar… amilcar is more of a sick fuck than me, he enjoys watching news when there are big accidents so he can laugh at them… amilcar’s idea of a joke is go to Somalia set up a electric fence… get a big table fill with the most delicious food on the planet and put some fans so the smells gets everywhere… cuz he wants to laugh at the starving people getting electrocuted while trying to get to the food… while he eats… amilcar and I use to spend our nights trying t...more
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recommends it for:
the socially damaged
i enjoyed this book, but im wondering what greg must think of me to have recommended it. you know how when patrick mccabe is writing truly sick shit and you enjoy it but youre like, man - why am i laughing at this?? its like that. but told in this tight prose that still manages to leave so much implicit. i liked it but its definitely not for everyone.
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Read in December, 2008
A wonderfully sparse and creepy novel about a janitor. There is something quite disturbing about this book, and it's not just the um, stuff (that I won't give away) that is overtly disturbing. If you can get a hold of this I'd recommend reading, the book has a kind of 'self-published' feel to it with the quality of the print on the cover, but look beyond that and read what really should be a book that gets a lot of attention.
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Read in June, 2009
Um. Ulp. I'm pretty much speechless here.
Eugene Marten's very short novel is about Sloper, a janitor. While merrily performing his janitorial tasks one evening, Sloper runs across something unusual in the dumpster, and...well, you probably have some idea where this is going, and it's really every bit as "EWWWWWW" as you think it is.
Waste is one of those books where you finish reading and you're really not quite sure whether you've been had or whether you're in ...more
Eugene Marten's very short novel is about Sloper, a janitor. While merrily performing his janitorial tasks one evening, Sloper runs across something unusual in the dumpster, and...well, you probably have some idea where this is going, and it's really every bit as "EWWWWWW" as you think it is.
Waste is one of those books where you finish reading and you're really not quite sure whether you've been had or whether you're in ...more
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Read in March, 2009
Deeply disturbing but surprisingly well written. It fucks with our perception of what gets deemed "waste" in our society: stuff, people, entire lives...
The style is creepy and minimal and uncomfortably effective.
The style is creepy and minimal and uncomfortably effective.
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Read in June, 2009
I bought this book Tuesday evening on Amazon.com, it was delivered at work Thursday afternoon and I finished reading all 116 pages that night. Couldn't put it down.
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Read in September, 2008
I blogged about it here:
http://www.5cense.com/NYC_Revisisted.htm
http://www.5cense.com/NYC_Revisisted.htm
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Read in December, 2001
recommends it for:
the antisocial
Someone publish this book. Waste blows almost every published book I've ever read out of the water. I found a self-published copy in the creepy basement of a used bookstore on Coventry, Cleveland with no description and it was one of the most fucked books that felt like it was coming from my own head. This author published a book called 'In the Blind' after this which is not nearly as good but until this one sees the light of day, check it out.
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Read in August, 2008
"This is surely one of the darkest and most jarring books I’ve read. It is also pitch-perfect. Waste wastes nothing–not a syllable, a beat, a ragged breath." –Dawn Raffel
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06/18/09
Lobstergirl
marked it as to-read
recommended to Lobstergirl by:
http://abcofreading.blogspot.com/
