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    <body><![CDATA[I find it fascinating that Mormon culture seems to spew out such dark artists. Neal Labute, for example, plumbs the psychological depths (the locker room conversation from Your Friends and Neighbors is harrowing). Evenson has of late become a specialist in stripped down, literary (albeit minimalist,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48236637">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What’s the weirdest book you ever read?  Something like UBIK by Philip K. Dick.  How about Daniel Pinkwater’s LIZARD MUSIC or THE SNARKOUT BOYS AND THE AVACADO OF DEATH or YOUNG ADULT NOVEL?  Maybe it was Charles Portis’ MASTERS OF ATLANTIS?  Neal Barrett, Jr.’s THE HEREAFTER GANG?   Well, w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51101918">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Creepy. Dark. Twisted. Insane. Those are some words I would use to describe Brian Evenson’s macabre detective novel. There are other words I would use, but unfortunately such terms are not appropriate for a review. Don’t misunderstand me, though; I mean these terms in the most complimentary of w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71785410">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book about crime...about a cult following of amputees who classify themselves as a one, a six, an eight…depending on how many amputations they have. More notoriety given to large amputations such as legs and arms. I bought the book based on a reader review. And I thought that I should br...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55617723">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second book of Brian Evenson's that I've read, and the first one that was a novel. I like his short fiction better, where his breathtaking ability to create an atmosphere of bleak insanity isn't hampered by having to put a plot along with it.  Not that the plot of this book is bad, it's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74012679">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book came recommended to me by an editor who liked my work. Flattering myself that if he liked my work, surely his taste must be good, I took his suggestion seriously and read Last Days.<br/><br/>I'm glad I did. In the intervening weeks I've seen several rave reviews for Last Days and I agree...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53474510">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is probably the most readable thing I've read by Brian Evenson, which is good and bad. Good because I may be able to recommend it to friends without a warning (such as &quot;I read 'Two Brothers' and almost puked&quot;), bad because so far it doesn't have the intensity of Evenson's best short s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48970894">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Evenson is amazing.  Every sentence he writes is great.  The book, like his others, goes way too far and soon becomes a nasty car accident that you cannot look away from. I was repulsed and I laughed uneasily and I spent a week or so in a rather disturbed state of mind.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Truthfully, it isn't so much that I LIKED this book, as that I thought it was really well done, and would work well for those who like this sort of thing.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The best Evenson work since The Wavering Knife. LAST DAYS is perhaps more accessible than his other work, which makes it all the more reason for those unacquainted to jump on board now.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as brilliant as his shorts, but still deliciously grotesque.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I see this one more as a hoot than some bloody end of days novel. Evenson is funny in the way of Cormac (Sutree, The Crossing esp.) The dialogue is hilarious. A man who can't be killed, like the Judge or Chirugh, but he doesn't have a self-centered disposition. Thrilling as well, the scenes in the h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55370501">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty dark, but weirdly funny, at least in the beginning. Crime noir set in a self-mutilation cult.<br/><br/>The dialogue in the first chapter or two feel a bit like a morbid &quot;Who's On First?&quot; routine.]]></body>
    
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