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    <body><![CDATA[You'll either love it or hate it. It will prove a satisfying journey for those who recognize and appreciate the piercing beauty of dischordance when achieved with plan and purpose. This collection contains two of the most unsettling and lovely pieces of short fiction I've ever read. If you like the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43301440">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is collection of short stories, of which I really loved the first one.  I can't remember anything about the other stories, probably because they were difficult to follow and comprehend.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Adventures in the Skin Trade by Dylan Thomas (1969)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great title and opening line: &quot;... only one person was awake in the street, and he was the quietest.&quot; No coincidence that the main character's called Samuel Bennett as it reads very like a Samuel Beckett. Just a fragment of a novel, he never finished it. The kind of book that academics fin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6485737">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Only made it half way through then gave up.  Claims to be a book of short stories.  It's actually long poetry parading itself as a collection of narratives... which I dislike intensely.  Read 8 or 9 &quot;stories&quot; and had no idea what was going on in any of them.  No character development.  No ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7273521">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This absurd little unfinished novella inspired me long ago in many ways, and helped me as a writer think about writing in a different light.]]></body>
    
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