The Whole

by John Reed (Goodreads author!)
The Whole  
published 2005 by MTV
binding Paperback
isbn 0743485017   (isbn13: 9780743485012)
url http://www.johnreed.tv
pages 224
characters Thing
setting United States
description In this hip supernatural tale, a blonde, surgicallcy-enhanced MTV VJ named Thing finds herself unemployed when ratings on her show fall. Thing loses h...more
date added
04-12-07



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Jason Pettus
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12/07/07

Read in December, 2007
(My full review of this book is too large for GoodReads' word-count limitations. Find the entire essay at the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:].)

For those who don't know, I actually reprint CCLaP's reviews over at the three literary social networks I belong to as well, GoodReads.com and LibraryThing.com and Shelfari.com (although admittedly at GoodReads I can publish only the first couple of paragraphs, because of their insanely low word-count limits). And I ha...more
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Laura
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07/10/07

Read in July, 2007
recommends it for: fans of satire, absurdism, Alice in Wonderland
You can check out reviews of this book online -- there's a good one at PopMatters -- so I'm limiting my comments to the book's use of language. Reed makes use of double entendre and malapropism to great effect here, and he slowly ramps up the level of absurdity to a point where meaninglessness might actually turn into meaning. It kind of melts your brain, this book, but that isn't a bad thing.
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John
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06/03/07

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Read in January, 2005
recommends it for: the fun, the furious, the crazed
I learned a number of things about writing stuff that's funny, like:

Put the funny part at the end of the sentence.
Keep the pace fast.

I also found that it was extremely difficult to give readings from the book, because you can't explain something that's out of context—kills the humor.
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Holos
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10/04/07

recommends it for: anyone who's seen the spiders
Total mind f. At first I hated the ending, and almost even threw the book, but now I like that it was so ... so whatever it was.
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