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    <body><![CDATA[Reviewed by LaLeesha Haynes for TeensReadToo.com<br/><br/>LUX THE POET, by British author Martin Millar, offers a fun, eccentric story of a poet in search of eternal fame and fortune.<br/><br/>As Lux searches a Brixton riot for Pearl - the lesbian love of his life - he meets the resistance of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65585976">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read two of Martin Millar's books before this one and fell immediately in love with his wit and dark humor.  <em>The Good Fairies of New York</em> was immediately put on my All-Time Favorites list.  He is indeed so awesome that from now on he can do absolutely no wrong.<br/><br/><em>Lux the Poet</em> was all I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69526093">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as good as my two current <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9320.Martin_Millar" title="Martin Millar">Martin Millar</a> faves, <em><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24942452">Lonely Werewolf Girl</a></em> and <em><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25054874">The Good Fairies of New York</a></em>, but it bears Millar's mark—a chaotic, nonlinear, meandering, fantastical storyline; self-absorbed characters who bounce off each other, fall in love with each other, fuck each other, try to ki...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51729817">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So. Apparently this is a repackage of the 1989 version, but the first USA edition. Martin Millar wrote LONELY WOLF GIRL, which I have heard is pretty good so I was intrigued. LUX THE POET, however, is like an LSD trip. But weirder. <br/><br/>The &quot;plot&quot; takes place in the 1985 Brixton Rac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53862584">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read cover to cover on a 5 hour flight from New York.  Immensely entertaining, and the last 5 pages made me cry in public.<br/><br/>Essentially the same book as Good Fairies of New York, but that doesn't really count against it.   A swirling phantasmagoria of 80s Brixton, Lux wanders through a race ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52408248">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nowhere near as tremendously wonderful as the other Martin Millar books that I've been reading, but it had a few moments of beauty. The title character is cheerfully and obliviously pathetic, but entertaining and charming in his own narcissistic way. I much preferred 'The Good Fairies of New York' t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60815355">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My guess is that Millar wrote one story from different point of views and then mixed them together at the same time for the novel.  It is constantly switching from person to person as the story goes.  You really have to pay attention or you might get lost.  <br/><br/>However, this is a good story....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56868340">more...</a>]]></body>
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