false <![CDATA[Poor Things]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170811128m/72355.jpg 72355 8 The full title of this work, <b>Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D. Scottish Public Health Officer</b>, reflect a bit of wacky genius at work here. Someone named Alasdair Gray has found a memoir supposedly of a 19th-century public health officer in Glasgow. The truth of the memoir is suspect, nevertheless Gray manages to change it and then lose it. And that's just the backdrop. Inside the memoir is the story of McCandless, an acquaintance named Godwyn Bysshe Baxter who takes a suicide victim, gives her the brain of her unborn child to create a promiscuous and brutal girlfriend. The book, which won the 1992 Guardian Fiction Prize, takes off from there. 2404337 4 11 1992 Poor Things total:189|5:70|4:79|3:30|2:10|1:0| 189 776 273 21 4 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 14:09:17 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 14:16:31 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 14:48:25 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 11:40:13 -0800 2009
Indisputably funnier and arguably more philosophically profound than David Mitchell's "Ghostwritten" (to randomly juxtapose the two most re...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 13 01:37:32 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 01:37:32 -0700 2009
It was very well thought out, very well written and ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Dec 22 00:28:31 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 00:29:19 -0800 2008
Weird book. In a good way ... I guess.
I was kinda creeped out afterwards and didn't know what to think.]]> 5 0 false false Sat Mar 07 11:29:57 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 27 09:13:45 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Thu Oct 25 15:37:03 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 15:43:34 -0700 2007
This book sets the Frankenstein story on its head as it deals with a female who becomes the "creation" rather than the male model of the original story.

This novel not only conc...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Aug 23 11:25:33 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 24 12:25:48 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Wed Mar 21 01:19:49 -0700 2007 Wed Mar 21 01:23:07 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Apr 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 03:35:13 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 05:50:35 -0700 2009 Bella, the woman with two pasts, is the centre of attention to both readers and the other characters and it's worthwhile to find for yourself why.]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 15:31:11 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 21:25:02 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Mon Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 13 10:19:53 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 13 10:24:04 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 15 10:17:14 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 19:35:00 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Sat Mar 08 13:46:16 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 08 13:46:16 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat Sep 08 13:59:12 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 08 13:59:12 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Jun 25 13:12:07 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 25 13:13:06 -0700 2007 Poor Things is a miracle. Holy fucking shit.]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Tue Sep 04 13:45:33 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 13:45:33 -0700 2007 4 0 true false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Fri Jul 06 17:50:20 -0700 2007 Sun Mar 22 17:17:00 -0700 2009
You got to read it to believe it.]]> 2 0 false false Fri Oct 24 09:37:14 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 24 09:38:14 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Fri Aug 24 20:32:55 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 24 20:33:28 -0700 2007 I was expecting something interesting.]]> 5 0 false false Sat Sep 15 20:25:30 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 15 20:26:12 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=72355