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  <title><![CDATA[The Roaches Have No King (High Risk)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;P&gt;&quot;Dark and erotic in addition to being clever and charming. It is laced with sexual scenes so graphic I hesitate to share them with you&quot;-&lt;I&gt;New York Times Book Review&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;When Ira Fishblatt's girlfriend, Ruth Grubstein, moves into his apartment, he has the kitchen renovated to make her feel at home. She is tickled pink, but hundreds of other houseguests aren't-the cockroaches who'd been living high on the hog before they were starved out. Weiss is a witty fabulist whose animals have profound things to say about the human condition.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;Daniel Evan Weiss's&lt;/B&gt; novels include &lt;I&gt;Hell On Wheels, Honk If You Love Aphrodite&lt;/I&gt; and &lt;I&gt;The Swine's Wedding&lt;/I&gt;. He lives in New York City.&lt;/P&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1990</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Daniel Evan Weiss]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Sep 09 13:10:09 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the more bizarre books I've read lately, and I'm not a stranger to bizarre books. I'm not exaggerating when I say that there were a few sections in this book that I had an actual, visceral reaction to. The story is about a colony of intelligent roaches who are trying to carve out a be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32458028">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Aug 23 05:41:14 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 23 05:43:17 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Le narrateur de ce livre s'appelle Nombres. <br/><br/>Il est né dans une bibliothèque de New York et appartient à l'espèce des dictyoptères, famille des blattellae germanicae, en français, les cafards. <br/><br/>Nombres et ses compagnons vivent heureux dans l'appartement d'Ira et de la Git...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68538003">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44557816">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 27 15:03:49 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Strange and interesting.  I liked the concept -- cockroaches as philosophers -- but I'm not sure how long this will stay with me.  This was first published in the UK as &quot;Unnatural Selection&quot; which I think is a better name.  There are certainly plenty of unnatural occurrences in this one.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44557816">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59513155">
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jun 13 09:20:32 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 13 09:21:01 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a brilliant book, sometimes hilarious, sometimes gross and always intelligent and clever. The basic plot is that cockroaches take over an apartment and try to manipulate the human inhabitants into making life better for them, the cockroaches. The fact that the story is narrated from the poin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59513155">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73087852">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Originally published in England as Unnatural Selection (a better title) the venerable card catalog lists this text as 1) Man-woman relationships; 2) Apartment Houses; 3) Cockroaches. Told entirely by the cockroach narrator, you'll learn a lot about the less obvious places to visit in an apartment an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73087852">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44038012">
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  <date_added>Fri Jan 23 05:38:33 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 23 05:40:03 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this because I was hoping it would be like Joe's Apartment would have been if Will Self had written it. <br/><br/>It's exactly like that and it turns out that isn't a good thing.]]></body>
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    <review id="43226021">
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  <date_added>Fri Jan 16 06:35:02 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yikes - I'm adding this to my to-read list because it was recommended last night and then I see Paul's review. Maybe I'll put it on some other shelf.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="62223380">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 08 10:42:55 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Have to admit - I still have no idea what this book is about...It was given to me by a friend...who usually has impecable taste, so I am more than willing to give it a go.]]></body>
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    <review id="3783128">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Entymologists]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book used because I needed a beach read on my vacation.  The concept intrigued me - the central character is a cockroach trying to reclaim his apartment from its human occupants.  It was pretty entertaining and light enough for the beach, but the depiction of black characters seemed a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3783128">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71608997">
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1995</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Sep 17 17:44:34 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A perverse, hysterically funny view of human life, from the perspective of a cockroach.  Out of print, alas.]]></body>
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    <review id="44712931">
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    <body><![CDATA[How do people think of these things?  A book written from a roaches perspective.]]></body>
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    <review id="3962840">
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    <name><![CDATA[Renee]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Aug 02 07:41:59 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 04 10:30:44 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>The Roaches Have No King</em>, by Daniel Evan Weiss, is a clever tale of cockroach “societal” dynamics, told from the perspective of the cockroach.  Mind you, this is not a book for everyone – the “Ew Factor” is very high, especially in passages concerning the interaction between human and cock...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3962840">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20243532">
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    <name><![CDATA[Colin]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Apr 15 15:00:33 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book quite a long time ago so my review might not be as fresh as some others.  Nonetheless, it has stuck with me in all the years since.  The authors choice of a roach for a main character is telling as he then proceeds to lay before the reader all the horrbile, ugly things that we think...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20243532">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41065419">
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely genius.]]></body>
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    <review id="33949666">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ubik]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Sep 26 22:45:15 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book at a thrift store a couple years ago, read the first couple chapters and just havent gotten around to reading the rest. I think I have to get past the grossness factor of the roaches and I'll be OK. It did not start out to be a bad book at all, and Im sure once I give it the chance...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33949666">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30800383">
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    <name><![CDATA[Steven]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Philisophical and completely sick in equal measures - the premise of this book is enough to keep you reading until the end (although it can be hard going at times).  The trip into the sewers ranks as one of the most stomach churning passages I've ever read.  Great stuff.]]></body>
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    <review id="27376237">
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    <body><![CDATA[Definitely not for everyone. Read it when it first came out, and really enjoyed it at the time. I do remember that there were parts where I literally had to close the book because it was too graphic. Do not read if you are the least bit squeamish.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A life-changing read, not in a good way.  A hlarious look at the world from the point of view of a cockroach.  NOT like Joe's Apartment.  Actually funny.  Well written.  Still totally disgusting.  And one of my all-time favorites.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kirkus Reviews described it as &quot;occasionally funny&quot;, which is about right: Very occasionally funny.  The roach aspect didn't bother me but the persistent lowest-common-denominator-of-humor aspect got old very, very, quickly.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While this book was enjoyable and really funny, it was not especially brilliant.  If you need to read a book about intelligent insects, go for <u>The Life of Insects</u>.  It's much more interesting.<br/>]]></body>
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