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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;You got Pynchon in my sci fi!&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;You got sci fi in my Pynchon!&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;I hate Pynchon!&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;Go to hell! This is delicious!&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;I don't know, pretty bland and incoherent to me.&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;Well, do you want the r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8214861">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Discovering Steve Erickson's writing has been one of the great surprises of this year.  I first read &quot;Zeroville&quot; which is his most recent work and what may be positioning him for a larger audience...  Probably his most accessible.  This is his first...  strikingly similar in many ways.  Di...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39597051">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ryan wrote: &quot;There is a high level of purposeful vagueness throughout, as if this world contained only descriptions, never answers.&quot; Exactly.  It was very frustrating, as I flew through the first 100 pages, only to realize this book was going nowhere.  Which would be fine if it was at leas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12777591">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this in a remaindered hardcover ages ago when the equally strange and appealing <em>Rubicon Beach</em> came out. Found this one more accessible, but that was likely because I was not such a swift reader. Also recall that he repeats several lines verbatim between the two books, but to what end? Who knows...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40174197">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, that was just weird. I was going through my backlog of friend requests when I stumbled upon my new booknerd friend Michael's very awesome review of this book. So yes he is now my friend, and then I went to read more about the book itself. And the weird thing is how when you look at people's book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18816840">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was fine.  As others have said, lovely imagery, unrealistic characters.  <br/><br/>In addition to the imagery, I get a feeling that Erickson's obscurity might be what some of his evangelists like about him.  Luckily for the obscurity fans, then, their five star ratings will always be tem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34404364">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't really explain why I liked this book so much. Other reviewers have said that reading Erickson's work is like reading a dream which I suppose is a pretty accurate assessment. One of my favorite authors is Harukui Murakami and the experience of reading Erickson was very similar to that of read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34975339">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another weirdo brainbender from Erickson, naturally, set in Los Angeles, an excavation of identity and the film industry, and will drive you nuts with confused ecstacy.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Too much...itself. Like bad Sam Delaney, which is like bad...I don't know, say, writing.<br/><br/>Or maybe I'm wrong. I don't know.]]></body>
    
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