My Landlady the Lobotomist
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My Landlady the Lobotomist
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4.15 of 5 stars
The brains of past tenants line the shelves of my boarding house, soaking in a mysterious elixir. I'm pretty sure something has infected my gray ma... read full description

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Apr 21, 2009
Garrett rated it: 5 of 5 stars
Where the hell are my words? There's something truly great to say about this book. Something that nails it down like a Roman soldier would an impertinent messiah. Those words lurk in the head of a wise orangutan shaman in Borneo or something like it. Layers of headspace peel back or rush ahead with new revelations constantly in My Landlady the Lobobotomist, a story about heartbreak, the artistic process and the nature of one man's hell. And Godzilla. And his love for She-sus, the female messiah. More...
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Apr 02, 2011
Erik rated it: 3 of 5 stars
This short novel describes love in terms of three modalities. The first and most normative is a middle-aged college professor in love with a much younger woman. The second is an insect impossibly in love with a fish. The third is Godzilla, the Shadow of the other two, versus She-sus. As the author is a middle-aged college professor, that would seem to be the pivot of the whole. Presumably, however, he does not live in a boarding house run by an amateur lobotomist.

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Aug 27, 2010
Kane rated it: 5 of 5 stars
Landlady Mrs. Lardenswill has a diabolical knack for collecting the frontal lobes of former boarders in jars on display, and this is where we the readers come in. There is a somewhat Brahmanistic hierarchy of habitues under the stern and matronly landlady whose arcanely diabolical predilection for lobotomizing tenants who irk her on issues such as chronic back rent and bad table manners. The cruel and Procrustean selection of a landlady metaphorically mirrors the "headlessness" of the More...
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Nov 10, 2010
Anita rated it: 4 of 5 stars
I’ll be completely honest here. There were moments I had no idea what was happening in this book and when that occurs, I generally blame the book. But this time I think it was me, literalist that I am, seeking stable ground in a book where the only real knowledge I could have was that love will probably die. So I should have hated this book but I didn’t. This is not a case of the dim embracing the difficult in an attempt not to show their dimness (or at least I hope it isn’t) but rather an admis More...
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