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    <body><![CDATA[I got to meet Sal at a reading he gave at Skylight Books. He was touring the country with Eli Horowitz from McSweeney's (publisher). Sal is from El Monte and a bunch of his family and friends were at the reading. A lot of people were carrying heads of lettuce, which I didn't quite get. It was totall...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6493074">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Metafiction can be offputting; its reflective trickery can read as self-absorbed and altogether too precious.  But Plascencia somehow skirts this effect, developing  characters--literal and figurative &quot;people of paper&quot;--that a reader can become absorbed in while remaining aware and appreci...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2069421">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kind of a funny book here from the people at McSweeney's.  I should disclose I am not normally a McSweeney's fan.  I'm not sure if I just 'don't get it', I'm a few rungs down on the 'hip ladder' or what.  This book is kind of like if Joe Meno's 'The Boy Detective Fails' met up with Charlie Kaufman's...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46663579">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this.  It has a very non-linear style, with multiple narrators co-narrating the story simultaneously.  There's also the fact that the plot is completely insane.<br/>Characters flow in and out of reality, interacting with the narrator, with each other, and with historical figures on an equ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1363062">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[magical, sad and painfully well-played, this lovely meta-ish novel grips, smacks and coddles with all manner of dreamy metaphors and the unrelenting allegories of the plots and subplots. there's enough reality, even with these devices, to make the book, all about heartbreak, a total heartbreaker. i ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4488320">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book is absolutely amazing.  <br/>a little like following a gang of children as they collectively tell a tale of wonder while you're wondering how they've seen so much of life already.  maybe it's the innocence and hope, intermingled with indescribable &amp; utterly perplexing sadness. <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7325474">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Cool book!  You know how you like the playful post-modern meta-ness of authors like Dave Eggers (or maybe you don't), but sometimes it feels gimmicky and cheap?  Maybe it seems like that whole thing has been explored and we should all just move on?<br/><br/>Well, Salvador Plascencia convinced me t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62573131">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ fact that this made me endure hating the first 70 pages isn't to be taken lightly. Maybe I got used to the tone of the book, or maybe it actually changed, I can't really tell, but I seriously considered just giving it back to the library; boy would that have been a mistake. I also won't give it 5 s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45856129">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Moses has been telling me to read this book forever, but when I peeked through and saw it had a pention for crazy formatting, yet was  nearly three hundred pages long, such a commitment seemed...daunting.  Formats given to whimsy in a short story are one thing--I love a weird poem or some strange ac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39827148">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the most gimmicky book I have ever read.  If you are able to read without being annoyed by pretty out of hand post-modern bullshit, this might be a pretty good book.  It got on my nerves though.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been waiting to read this for a while.  The original McSweeney's hardcover edition is an amazing edition that I wanted to add to my bookshelf.  I didn't end up with a copy because that was during a job transition time when the book buying bucks were low.  I did receive a copy of the paperback a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36866642">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I could not make myself finish this book! It was just impossible for me to care about the story or the characters. After reading several reviews by other 'goodreaders', I realized that magical realism does kind of 'make me gag'.  At least this book did.  I've enjoyed some Marquez, but there was more...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45074229">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Salvador Plascencia paints a picture of the most painful but beautiful world i have ever experienced. His abilitly to play with the very structure of the book as well as the words on the page (or black blobs of ink on the page) take you to another place. I hold this book near and dear. Though he is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65573481">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's on order from Skylight.<br/><br/>I read this at the insistence of a friend, who after reading the first four pages, emphatically enlisted others of us to read it as well. It's an engaging story that plays with the structure and process of literature, incorporating visual elements to good effe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63100182">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Over the years, I have been told by more than one reliable source that this book is one of the best, most beautiful works ever written. And while, upon reading it myself, I must respectfully diagree with such a pronounced view, I can certainly understand why one would make such a claim. Salvador Pla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26104744">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[post-modern books, unhinged from the gravity of history and human experience, tend to meander in the ether willy-nilly. In the wake of their deconstruction it seems pointless for the other (me, you, the reader) to grab on to anything. the author's subjectivity reigns and one is usually left in a wor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13722512">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having heard/read a whole lot about this book -- not to mention being pretty shamelessly drawn into the beautiful hardback edition from the good people of McSweeneys -- my expectations were pretty high. And, as I kind of vacillate between the third and fourth stars up there, I'm kinda wondering how ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8291697">more...</a>]]></body>
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