false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178651283m/815859.jpg 815859 6 2289698 book 28 8 2007 How the Dead Dream total:170|5:39|4:58|3:50|2:16|1:7| 170 616 372 51 815859 1933368810 9781933368818 141 45 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178651283m/815859.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815859.How_the_Dead_Dream 4 3 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 11:43:01 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 11:45:28 -0800 2008 By Marc Weingarten

If Lydia Millet played by the normal rules of social satire, she might have been as large as T.C. Boyle by now. But whereas most satirists are looking for laughs much of the time, regardless of how sharp their knives might be, Millet is more the whimsical polemicist. He...more...]]> 815859 1933368810 9781933368818 141 45 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178651283m/815859.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815859.How_the_Dead_Dream 4 1 false Fri Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 21 16:30:44 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 06:49:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 815859 1933368810 9781933368818 141 45 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178651283m/815859.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815859.How_the_Dead_Dream 3 4 false Wed Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 06 09:41:27 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 26 13:46:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2283495 1593761848 9781593761844 15 4 3.62 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2283495.How_the_Dead_Dream_A_Novel 4 2 false Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 19:44:09 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 23:01:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2283495 1593761848 9781593761844 15 4 3.62 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2283495.How_the_Dead_Dream_A_Novel 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:55:37 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:55:37 -0800 2009 Lydia Millet, a social novelist with a master's degree in environmental policy, has carved a reputation for herself by exploring difficult topics in edgy, darkly humorous works of fiction. How the Dead Dream—part philosophical meditation, part fable, and part comic escapade—argues for the import...

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T., the protagonist of Millet’s sixth novel, becomes a real estate man — today’s ad man — having realized early in life that self-determination in the modern world is largely, if not entirely, based on money. As a child he orches...more...]]> 815859 1933368810 9781933368818 141 45 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178651283m/815859.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815859.How_the_Dead_Dream 4 0 false Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 04:59:30 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 06:24:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 815859 1933368810 9781933368818 141 45 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178651283m/815859.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815859.How_the_Dead_Dream 4 0 false Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 11:48:04 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 11:56:07 -0700 2009 1 The cover misled me on this one, made it seem dark, or about zombies, of which it is neither.

It's actually pretty illuminating, and took me places I wouldn't have expected- which a good book should do, but seem to less sometimes.

HTDO chronicles hoe feelings and natur...more...]]> 6806169 9780156035460 14 2 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1253034458m/6806169.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6806169-how-the-dead-dream 3 0 false Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 16:54:05 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 15:35:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6806169 9780156035460 14 2 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1253034458m/6806169.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6806169-how-the-dead-dream 3 0 false Sat Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 04:33:50 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 01 06:20:31 -0800 2009 How The Dead Dream hoping it would be a particular kind of story, which of course it wasn't; I mention that because bringing such expectations isn't fair to book or reader, and in this case it tempered my reaction in a probably unhelpful way. I read the novel in large part to see how anima...more...]]> 815859 1933368810 9781933368818 141 45 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178651283m/815859.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815859.How_the_Dead_Dream 5 1 false Sat Jun 21 15:58:51 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 08:09:44 -0700 2008 815859 1933368810 9781933368818 141 45 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178651283m/815859.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815859.How_the_Dead_Dream 4 0 false Mon Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 10:31:41 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 12 16:29:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 815859 1933368810 9781933368818 141 45 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178651283m/815859.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815859.How_the_Dead_Dream 4 0 false Sun Aug 17 10:51:16 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 10:52:30 -0700 2008
It starts off with a kid who's obsessed with money, initially just the look and feel of the cash, but his infatuation...more...]]> 815859 1933368810 9781933368818 141 45 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178651283m/815859.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815859.How_the_Dead_Dream 3 0 true Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 20 17:43:23 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 22 12:06:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 815859 1933368810 9781933368818 141 45 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178651283m/815859.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815859.How_the_Dead_Dream 2 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 00:22:08 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 00:24:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 815859 1933368810 9781933368818 141 45 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178651283m/815859.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815859.How_the_Dead_Dream 2 0 false Sun Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 19:36:36 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 05:02:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 815859 1933368810 9781933368818 141 45 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178651283m/815859.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815859.How_the_Dead_Dream 4 0 false Fri May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 08:29:19 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 10:41:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 815859 1933368810 9781933368818 141 45 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178651283m/815859.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815859.How_the_Dead_Dream 3 0 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 06 07:37:19 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 07:37:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 815859 1933368810 9781933368818 141 45 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178651283m/815859.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815859.How_the_Dead_Dream 3 0 false Sat Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 09:45:50 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 11:16:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 815859 1933368810 9781933368818 141 45 3.62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178651283m/815859.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815859.How_the_Dead_Dream 4 0 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 24 19:28:03 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 12 21:36:53 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=815859