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    <body><![CDATA[It's hard to rate this book, because on many levels it is brilliant. Just brilliant. Yet, lets just say, there is not much narrative tension and that is an understatement of the century. <br/><br/> The writer is hilarious. And the character, a complete nerd who cannot stop thinking about the most ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11138098">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really loved this book.  I've not read many novels since high school, and thus don't have a lot to compare it to, but I think it might now be my favorite book.<br/><br/>To give away the plot:  Man rides up escalator, thinks about stuff.  That's it -- no other characters, no &quot;rising action,&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4970501">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[(written 1/2001)<br/><br/>The intricacies of human life and culture here in America - beautiful in its completeness.  Overanalyzing and reporting objectively so you can't help but look at your own life the same way.<br/><br/>The periodicity of conversations, periodicity of thoughts in a year... ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7032318">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book with it propped up in the air, easeled in one hand, while I ate an eggs overeasy. This combination pleased me. Suddenly, the moment drew when my fork punctured that kingly golden membrane, leaving four machine-precise pin pricks from which began to pour rivulets of viscous bird embr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78747987">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[thoroughly surprising. I didn't expect much from such a gimmicky premise (a novel taking place over the course of one short escalator ride, nothing especially dramatic occurs), but every complaint I had was rebutted by an &quot;and yet&quot; in my head.<br/><br/>I hate fiction with footnotes. and ye...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68285661">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my favorite of Nicholson Baker's goofy, brilliant little novels. In its hundred-something pages describing a nondescript character's slow-motion recollections of the material world of his past - the hundreds of archaic mechanisms that've been phased out, the details we take for granted - one...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1266830">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book about the little things in life – the truly, truly small and seemingly insignificant things that we think about every day. Essentially the story of one man’s lunch hour (he works on the mezzanine floor of a large building) and the intellectual history behind his thoughts of this h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77734728">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an extraordinary novel, Baker's first!  Among other subjects, its thoughtful, lovable protagonist considers shoelaces, escalators, ugly coffee mugs, Marcus Aurelius, corporate bathroom design, vinyl records spinning on turntables and plastic straws.  There are breathtaking paragraphs describ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72718278">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book taught me how to raise the seat of a toilet in barrooms and office buildings etc with my foot. And the climax (SPOILER WARNING): a jar of Hellmann's mayo rotating on the price-scanner thing at the supermarket checkout -- get it? Hell. Man.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I desperately want to like this book. So far, I have picked it up on 7 or 8 occasions only to put it down a few minutes later. I absolutely love the other two novels I've read by Baker (The Fermata, Vox), but this one is footnote after footnote of the most mundane nature. While I understand this is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50435831">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is the Seinfeld of books: wildly amusing and entertaining, but essentially about nothing. Amazing insight meets the most boring activities known to man: stapling, tying shoes, even urinating. Don't expect anything life-changing; expect eye-opening moments and constantly saying to yourself ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57587624">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was &quot;good&quot; in the sense that it was well-written and imaginative and filled with &quot;holy smokes&quot; insights about probably-until-then-unremarked-upon aspects of modern life. But (for me) it grew annoying very quickly. Since Goodreads is based on &quot;liking&quot; a book, and I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65241866">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Baker's first book?  Really?  Huh.  Well, it was very good for a first novel (a short one).  I had read Box of Matches a few months back and enjoyed it.  The Mezzanine is similar in that Baker re-evaluates the physical world around us with a precision that is border-line annoying.  A few top...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56755104">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel is above all <em>precise</em>. We are deservedly jealous of its precision. Reading <em>The Mezzanine</em> is akin to thumbing through one's lifelong accumulation of jotted half-thoughts and post-it-note missives. Ah, I've thought that thought! But it isn't true. Baker succeeds in finishing those thoughts d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46426209">more...</a>]]></body>
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