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    <body><![CDATA[Nick Cave’s <em>The Death of Bunny Monro</em> is a novel about a delusional sex addict/beauty products salesman and his reserved, thoughtful nine year old son in the fateful days after the suicide of their wife/mother.  The novel’s quick 278 pages include (without giving away too much, I hope):<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74249186">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[People who want to think about Avril's bearded taco.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Oct 04 23:18:09 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading this book I can not think of Avril Lavigne without automatically thinking about what her vagina would look like.  The &quot;Complicated&quot; singer's cooter will probably forever be a purple elephant to me, and I'll be 90 years old and &quot;Skater boy&quot; will come on the &quot;Goo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73193004">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76208527">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Of course i am going to like this.  The man is a genius who can possibly turn his hand to anything.  Upteen great albums, a previous book 20 years ago, a screenplay and soundtracks for several films.  Unbelievable.<br/><br/>This is a deceptively simple tale.  You can tell it was written at the tim...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76208527">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nick Cave. Songsmith, Poet, Artist, Screenwriter, Performer--of all his great talents and larger than life artistic abilities novelist seems to be the one area that he just doesn't shine quite so much. And I love Nick Cave. I wouldn't quite say &quot;worship&quot; as many do, but certainly &quot;ido...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72774360">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hypnotically Sleazy! Dark but not really twisted, just dark in a mundane way and yet brilliant in the minutia of a life gone down hill. I can't decide if I really liked it or not. I'm glad that I read it, but I'm still uncertain of what it left me with. <br/><br/>You get drawn into Bunny's world, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60792664">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75820337">
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A raunchified Don Giovanni, *The Death of Bunny Munro* is yet another—perhaps darker and nastier but equally as comical—retelling of the Faust myth.  While the text is a bit thin and descends to pulp at times, Cave best displays his lyricism when setting the scene and tone—he renders Brighton ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75820337">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book that the sexually insecure, rape victims, and the quasi-academic Anglophiles will hate.  I am so inspired by Nick Cave's courage to explore predatory male sexuality (perhaps one of the more hushed topics by the politically correct).  The human libido is often a vicious, evil one and h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73463981">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a ride!  It really does go from being insane, obscene, and hilarious to tragic with a hint of redemption. Despite  being telegraphed by the title of the book, the first line, and the title of part three (&quot;deadman&quot;),  the ending really threw me for a loop.<br/><br/>There are scenes o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71902329">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nick Cave's second novel &quot;The Death of Bunny Munro&quot; is really something.  One, it's a tight piece of work that is extremely moving about a middle-aged widow who is a traveling door-to-door cosmetic salesman who has a passion for...pussy.  Not really women, but just the old in-and-out and t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58695577">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74139393">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wasn't really sure what to expect with Nick Cave's second novel.  As a fan of his music, and someone who enjoyed his first novel back when I was a student (probably the best point in life to read that book, but that is a different review), there was no way I wasn't going to read it.  However, I do...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74139393">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Original review at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.indenvertimes.com/book-review-the-death-of-bunny-munro/">INDenverTimes</a>. <br/><br/>There are few antiheros as loathsome as Bunny Munro, the protagonist of Nick Cave’s second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro. A monstrously pathetic (and unaccountable successful) cosmetic salesman, Bunny Munro seems to have spent his life careening from...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74154196">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75528813">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hmmm.  Mr. Cave has a knack for writing about the wretched among us.  The topics that I love in his music can be a hit or miss when he's writing prose.  I deeply loved his first novel, &quot;And the Ass Saw the Angel&quot; even though it was profoundly disturbing and a total bummerfest.  Cave's prot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75528813">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Irvine Welsh says, &quot;Put Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse and they might just come up with The Death of Bunny Munro.&quot;<br/><br/>Me, I thought it was a bit more reminiscent of Selby. Regardless, this is brilliant; a masterpiece as far as ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74476911">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a difference twenty years makes. Nick Cave’s first novel, <em>And the Ass Saw the Angel</em>, which was released in 1989, opens with:<br/><blockquote><br/>“Three greasy brother crows wheel, beak to heel, cutting a circle into the bruised and troubled sky, making fast, dark rings through the thicksome bloats o...</blockquote><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72110107">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nick Cave deals in dark. It’s his thing. It always has been, and I am guessing it always will be, but in the last twenty or so years, he has learned to wrestle his muse, and has gone from the guy who sometimes (supposedly) wrote the lyrics for his early band (The Birthday Party) in the blood-drenc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72511349">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bunny Munro, a horrible sex crazed youngish man is the main character of this pretty wild book.  Not enough that he is so into the sex, with or without whomever is around!  I thoroughly despised him from the start &amp; didn't really want to finish reading this...then you find out his wife has committed...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77921944">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Point form review: begins poorly, but the writing style/tone picks up and improves as it goes on. Telegraphs its plot-twists miles away in the literary equivalent of big flashing neon letters. Last several chapters unfold in a manner reminiscent of what I'd expect in a high-school writing project. A...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77539495">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[how can i describe this?  imagine a porno (rated r stuff, not hardcore), jack kerouac's on the road, and maybe something a little glengarry glenross.  shake it up and out comes 'death of bunny munro.'  <br/><br/>cave's distinctive storytelling, which usually includes elements of greed and lust, to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71056159">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know that Nick Cave is probably someone that I should be into, but I know next to nothing about him.  What I do know is that I did not enjoy this book.  It was cleverly written and the young boy character was quite fascinating, but it was overwhelmingly disturbing.  Maybe I've grown into a prude o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73851859">more...</a>]]></body>
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