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  <default_description>Here Monsters are hidden ...  A lyrical anti-quest through a conscious maze without center, borders, or escape--a dark pilgrim's progress through a landscape of vicious Angels, plague houses, crocodile-prophets, tragic chess-sets, and the mind of an unraveling woman, driven on by the mocking guide who seeks to destroy as much as save.  Enter the world of the Labyrinth, where Doors do not wait to be opened, but hunt you in the night. This is Zarathustra in Wonderland, a puzzle which defies solution, a twisted path through language and madness...  But where will you hide?</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Catherynne M. Valente]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely adored Catherynne M. Valente's In the Night Garden, so picking up The Labyrinth was a no-brained. However, it proved out to be a very different creature.<br/><br/>The flowery, metafora heavy writing style is there, but the story itself is more of an exercise of a literacy student. Sym...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63262728">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very interesting book. Really, it was. It's told in the first person and is about a woman who's trapped in a Labyrinth. She's being chased by doors and we follow along as she searches for the mythical center. But it's the writing and the way the story is structured that makes this book so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41605126">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to admit, I didn't finish reading this book, but I am done nonetheless. The book flap called it an anti-Quest tale, which is more or less right: a confounding of conventions of plot, purpose and narrative. The problem is that the conventions of plot, purpose and narrative often render a work ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23460133">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Labyrinth is like a lace-work of words. It's definitely surreal, and there are explosions of paragraphs that describe nothing so much as madness. It a story of a quest that isn't, a journey to a center that's not there. It's slightly insane and cyclical, but it's beautifully wrought. The plot is cer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24904608">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read and loved both volumes of &quot;The Orphans Tales.&quot; so naturally I want to read more!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Labyrinth by Catherynne M. Valente (2004)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite some well-turned phrases, half of the book was incoherent internal monologue. It had the effect of obscuring the story for pages at a time. This was disappointing after being wowed by Palimpsest.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful, wandering and strange.  A lovely book for a lover to read to you when you're suffering from fever, but even upon rereading with a sober mind, it's twisty and unique.  Several different stories, lashed together as dreams are and ultimately coming to the same place, like starlight.]]></body>
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