false 81539 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170998137m/81539.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170998137s/81539.jpg 81539 4 78736 1986 Myra Breckinridge/Myron (20th-Century Classics) total:223|5:52|4:78|3:67|2:19|1:7| 223 818 319 30 5657 3.79 8580 846 33783567 764075 81539 0141180285 9780141180281 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170998137m/81539.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170998137s/81539.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81539.Myra_Breckinridge_Myron 3.72 196 1986 1 2 false Fri Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 1989 Wed Sep 24 20:56:11 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 24 20:58:49 -0700 2008 001 Naked Lunch" and thinking "I can write like that!" Well, you can't Miss Gore. I'll stick to watching Raquel Welch tramp around in her foxy flag outfit.more...]]> 49526464 1432036 81539 0141180285 9780141180281 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170998137m/81539.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170998137s/81539.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81539.Myra_Breckinridge_Myron 3.67 223 1986 4 0 false Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 21:47:35 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 21:53:33 -0700 2009 "in the decade between 1935 and 1945, no irrelevant film was made in the United States", emphasis NOT mine), if only because so much of the razo...more...]]> 41027571 428680 81539 0141180285 9780141180281 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170998137m/81539.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170998137s/81539.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81539.Myra_Breckinridge_Myron 3.67 223 1986 5 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 14:10:04 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 14:25:48 -0800 2008 This is my 3rd time reading Myra and my 2nd time reading Myron, and they are as brilliant as i remember. Though I didn't laugh quite as hard this time, simply because jokes aren't as funny the 3rd time you hear them, I still would put Myra Breckinridge up there with A Confederacy of Dunces as ...more...]]> 70405398 1283828 81539 0141180285 9780141180281 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170998137m/81539.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170998137s/81539.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81539.Myra_Breckinridge_Myron 3.67 223 1986 4 0 false Mon Sep 07 17:19:42 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 18:12:36 -0700 2009
However, Vidal's 1968 title character cannot be classified with most of the one-dimensional psycho transgender characters so comm...more...]]> 7165417 446559 81539 0141180285 9780141180281 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170998137m/81539.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170998137s/81539.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81539.Myra_Breckinridge_Myron 3.67 223 1986 4 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Oct 02 15:31:33 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 02 15:33:30 -0700 2007
I recently finished reading Gore Vidal's Myra Breckenridge and the sequel, Myron. I don't really know what more to say about this book other than it was about a freakin' SCHIZOPHRENIC TRANSEXUAL! It was pretty funny, in it's own way, but is also kind of intimidating in...more...]]> 25606250 1260580 81539 0141180285 9780141180281 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170998137m/81539.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170998137s/81539.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81539.Myra_Breckinridge_Myron 3.67 223 1986 3 0 false Wed Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 17:11:13 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 10:35:42 -0700 2008
Myra Breckenridge is the predecessor to transgressive literature. One can see how much Palahniuk pulled from Vidal's delivery of the twist when he wrote Fight Club. Vidal succeeds with his tremendous feat of combining obscene ideas with...more...]]> 52264019 2199957 81539 0141180285 9780141180281 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170998137m/81539.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170998137s/81539.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81539.Myra_Breckinridge_Myron 3.67 223 1986 0 0 false Fri Apr 10 21:35:33 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 21:37:41 -0700 2009 44096245 1901931 81539 0141180285 9780141180281 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170998137m/81539.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170998137s/81539.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81539.Myra_Breckinridge_Myron 3.67 223 1986 4 0 false Fri Jan 23 14:21:21 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 14:23:34 -0800 2009 8351075 127027 81539 0141180285 9780141180281 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170998137m/81539.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170998137s/81539.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81539.Myra_Breckinridge_Myron 3.67 223 1986 4 0 false Sat May 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 28 11:05:47 -0700 2007 Sat May 03 09:58:53 -0700 2008
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