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  <title><![CDATA[Dermaphoria]]></title>
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  <default_description>Bailed out of jail and holed up in a low-rent motel, amnesiac Eric Ashworth's only memory is a woman's name: Desiree. With steadily increasing doses of a strange new hallucinogen, Eric finds that the drug allows him to reassemble his past in broken fragments. But as he begins to lose touch with the present, his distinction between truth and fantasy begins to crumble, creating a world where divisions between love and loss, violence and tenderness, and fact and fiction are less discernible than they ought to be.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2005</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Dermaphoria</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Craig Clevenger]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Nov 06 12:50:19 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[What's the lab test for MDMA after burn? Does one dip litmus paper into the periosteum lining the cranium to see if the brain has burned out? I don't know. I'm not versed in such things. I could never figure out the basics for pseudoephedrine based meth production. And I sure as hell wasn't a chemis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76939024">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Craig Clevenger is a brilliant writer, and I'm quite excited to read a great follow-up to &quot;The Contortionist's Handbook&quot;.  &quot;Dermaphoria&quot; just wasn't that &quot;great follow-up&quot;; a fellow reviewer remarked that this book was a classic example of &quot;the sophomore slump&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44052212">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 26 13:39:50 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Craig Clevenger is a brilliant writer, and I'm quite excited to read a great follow-up to &quot;The Contortionist's Handbook&quot;.  &quot;Dermaphoria&quot; just wasn't that &quot;great follow-up&quot;; a fellow reviewer remarked that this book was a classic example of &quot;the sophomore slump&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44049748">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56458307">
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  <read_at>Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon May 18 04:18:43 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu May 21 04:14:10 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[3.5 stars if I could. For those not familiar with Clevenger, his first book &quot;The Contortionist's Handbook&quot; became somewhat of an underground sleeper hit in 2003. I gave that 4 stars, so liked that a bit better than this one, as it made me think more, and had more of a psychological aspect ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56458307">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12363384">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jan 12 18:22:33 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 09 20:43:34 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Wow&quot;, he says, with the realization that this is more than a little understated as way to begin a review but... Wow!  With prose dense, intricate, and hallucinogenic as anything Burroughs wrote on a thoroughly lucid day, this book is most definitely not light reading for a summer day or y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12363384">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5238442">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Aug 28 12:39:42 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 28 12:40:32 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[(The much longer full review can be found at the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:].)<br/><br/>Okay, I confess: that of all the different types of underground artists out there, I have a particular affinity for the weird quiet ones on the edge of every scene, who freq...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5238442">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62317237">
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    <name><![CDATA[Fin]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 06 07:00:38 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 06 07:03:37 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I also wish there were half stars to award, I feel like 3 is not doing it justice. I didn't get properly into the book until about half way through, due to life not the story line. I am not sure if I had just started it properly from the begining would I feel different. I loved it by the end and wan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62317237">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41646657">
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    <name><![CDATA[Andrew]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 02 15:35:48 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 02 15:37:22 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book reads like some kind of drunken dream. I love it for it's sparseness and the utter loneliness the main character suffers. I don't remember many exact quotes, but when I think back on it, I don't see it as words - I see it in dark, shadowy images filled with anxious, sweaty, dusty interiors...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41646657">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40314171">
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  <date_added>Wed Dec 17 11:27:15 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one was quite incomprehensible, mostly due to Clevenger's style, which hinges upon surreal prose as well as heavy use of metaphor and simile. When compared to his first novel, &quot;The Contortionist's Handbook,&quot; this one suffers the horrible fate of falling into the Sophomore Slump catego...]]></body>
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    <review id="47610999">
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as good as contortionist handbook but sort of the same lost, confused, amnesiatic, possibly on drugs, main charactor. I felt at times the author was trying way too hard to create a beautiful line that it ended up sounding pretentious. Like chewing up light bulbs and firefly's to recreate the fee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47610999">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46863024">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful. Such beautiful writing. That's all I can say. ]]></body>
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    <review id="38349057">
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  <date_added>Fri Nov 21 18:08:19 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 21 18:08:51 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[like a chuck Palahniuk novel but not as good.]]></body>
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    <review id="3583487">
    <user id="192126">
    <name><![CDATA[Chris]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really wanted to like this book especially since I enjoyed <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= The Contortionist's Handbook" title=" The Contortionist's Handbook"> The Contortionist's Handbook</a>. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Craig Clevenger" title=" Craig Clevenger"> Craig Clevenger</a> has an interesting voice, but I feel like he didn't reach his potential with this one.  The story was too simplistic for the language he was using.  I found the entire read hard to navigate b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3583487">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7527492">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kurt]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[another great one from Clevenger:  the chain, the organization, from the point of view of another link (re: Contortionist's Handbook).  Rather, another protagonist getting by with intelligence and drugs, wrapped up in the chain, looking for the patterns (equations in CH, chemical compounds in this o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7527492">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17972806">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jessica]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Craig Clevenger can pen a mean drugs-n-romance novel. Whether or not he can do anything else, we may never know. But in the mean time, when I need a puzzle of a book with aching sequences of melancholy passion for that one girl that can drag a protagonist out of his obsessive drug cooking/abuse and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17972806">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28578822">
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I gave this book a 50-page chance, after which I skimmed through the rest. From the recommendations I was given, I was expecting some sort of literary masterpiece, a descriptive adventure perhaps. Instead, I found it to be a rather bland novel in which nothing much of interest occurs. I'm glad I did...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28578822">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Mark]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is very Burroughs-ian. I loved it. Like Paul Auster's Travels in the Scriptorium, this book also features a main character who wakes up in a mysterious room, not knowing who he is. Over the course of the book, he puts it all together. <br/>Craig did a <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.kqed.org/arts/writersblock/episode.jsp?id=13980">bang up reading</a> on my show. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14555380">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book may cause you to scratch your head at the beginning, but that is kind of the point.  It all comes out in the end, though, as you and the main character discover just exactly what happened to him and just what is so important about the name &quot;Desiree&quot;.  Another great read for anyon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6953999">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 30 06:45:32 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Oct 30 06:45:32 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The sentence level writing and descriptions are definitely the highlight of this book, especially the (many) sections about insects. I enjoyed the mysterious beginning though somewhere around the middle the paranoia of the narrator began to get a bit irritating but the book does build to something w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35556575">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 17 20:00:04 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 17 21:00:55 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Chemist designs a new wildly popular street drug that makes your skin feel really good or something, then he has to win back his girlfriend and not go to jail or get killed by his bosses and stuff.  &quot;Hallucinogenic&quot; writing that is not as good as his first novel, &quot;The Contortionist's ...]]></body>
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