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    <body><![CDATA[This big thing has been on my shelf for so long I have often mistaken it for an article of furniture. I'm giving it 100 pages and so far it don't look good. Might end up on my &quot;too avant for my garde&quot; shelf.<br/><br/>Later : yes, it did. I notice that even the publisher's blurb on the dj...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7924804">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 15 07:20:33 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 15 07:50:59 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Honestly this book is totally fucking weird. On likability, I'd probably only give it three stars, but seriously, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Vollmann" title=" Vollmann"> Vollmann</a> gets another star for sheer balls-out madness. It kind of this story where bugs are taking over the world? And our hero is kind of turning into a bug? With time spent in sewers...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4579639">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Easier to read than one might think, with hundreds of shorter semi-related chapters. The plot is almost disastrously weird - the powers of electricity versus an army of insects - but with even a cursory biographical knowledge of Vollmann's life the parallels are pretty easy to discover. In this way ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65411461">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jul 25 16:18:23 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Even more necessary now than when it was first published, this hate fuck of capitalist fascism which in no way exculpates the author is the wellspring in whose waters Vollman washed the feet of his idols and found inspiration for everything he wrote up to, but not including, his second, and even gre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3526273">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39985611">
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    <body><![CDATA[I started this book as I was working on the last chapters of a novel I'd been writing for a couple of years. Bad idea. Although it was nothing like what I'd written, this was the book I wanted to write. There was no reason for me to continue, Vollmann had done it for me.<br/><br/>This book is beyo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39985611">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="344216">
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    <body><![CDATA[A plodding wasteland stretching for metaphoric depth at every turn.<br/><br/>I'd like to have the time I spent on this book back, but unfortunately that's not possible.]]></body>
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    <review id="46215195">
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Feb 13 01:06:11 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Feb 28 18:25:56 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A surreal and insane hallucination of a book. A battle between the blue orbs and the insects. Sort of. Digressive and obsessed with detail. Exceptionally weird at the start, but once into it, a story emerges, and remains compelling if not entirely comprehensible throughout. A detailed table of conte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46215195">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61722143">
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    <body><![CDATA[Early Vollmann, a sophomore effort but rousing good fun, packed with vigorous pretension, invention, and what look like cocktail-napkin doodles by Vollmann himself. The title page of my copy is autographed &quot;To Whitworth, Dan from Vollmann, William&quot; and emblazoned with hand-drawn bugs by th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61722143">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39755193">
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  <date_updated>Tue Dec 09 22:14:26 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fabulous uber weirdo fiction about the revolutionaries some of whom are ants, a mysterious electricity god/creature, and mysterious humans... one of the most bizarre things I've ever read. Very fun, kind of have to throw your brain at it rather than read a &quot;normal&quot; way. Dunno, maybe my per...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39755193">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13674238">
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Once you take this book as a cartoon (as indicated in the subtitle &quot;A Cartoon&quot;), it has a lot going for it.  Lots of crackling language, the fractured narrative device (I, the author vs. I, Big George), the parallels and allusions to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and the arbitrary Ste...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13674238">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40365440">
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  <date_added>Thu Dec 18 02:14:08 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I got about half-way through this in 1995, then started over and finished it in early 1998. I was confused most of the time, but I enjoyed the prose.  Someday I'll see if I can understand any more of it.  (Amazon thinks there's a <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/068911852X">board book adaptation</a> of it, so maybe I should try that.)<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40365440">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7630888">
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    <body><![CDATA[he's a very tough writer for me to understand. but when the stuff i have read by him is understandable -- whores for gloria, as opposed to the rainbow stories -- i really like it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book requires a certain state of mind from me to really enjoy. My Burroughs-addled, existentially-angst ridden, wacked part of my brain liked parts (those imperious bugs!) and enjoyed the satire. Other times I needed narrative structure and sentences that can be read aloud without embarrassment...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24458018">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I notice a lot of the reviews highlight that this book is not easy to read.  I will just say that its easier than, say Gravity's Rainbow and much much much easier than Ulysses, which is pretty much where I'm banging my head against the ceiling.  So if you like Pynchon, then you're good. <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57017708">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overlong, but cartoonish in a good way. One of those just let it wash over you books.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[it's a novel. no, it's a cartoon. wait! it's both... and much more.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Vollman, but haven't gotten around to this book.  I need to]]></body>
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