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    <updated_at>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:13:57 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:04:06 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Not really everything I had exepcted. That's not to say I didn't enjoy it. My main complaint is really in the characters. Willy G Christmas wasn't nearly as engaging a character as Mr Bones, which may be the point. However, the first half of the book tends to drag because of this (its almost all foc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/Not%20really%20everything%20I%20had%20exepcted.%20That's%20not%20to%20say%20I%20didn't%20enjoy%20it.%20My%20main%20complaint%20is%20really%20in%20the%20characters.%20Willy%20G%20Christmas%20wasn't%20nearly%20as%20engaging%20a%20character%20as%20Mr%20Bones,%20which%20may%20be%20the%20point.%20However,%20the%20first%20half%20of%20the%20book%20tends%20to%20drag%20because%20of%20this%20(its%20almost%20all%20focused%20on%20Christmas),%20and%20the%20book%20is%20split%20almost%20evenly%20between%20two%20distinct%20tones.%0D%0A%0D%0AI%20did,%20however,%20truly%20enjoy%20Auster's%20themes%20of%20language,%20which%20I%20thought%20worked%20especially%20well%20through%20his%20canine%20narrator.%20There's%20quite%20a%20bit%20of%20Jacques%20Lacan%20here%20--%20Mr.%20Bones'%20world%20is%20very%20much%20defined%20by%20his%20language,%20and%20his%20language%20is%20picked%20up%20secondhand%20from%20his%20experiences%20(making%20his%20life%20and%20his%20language%20a%201:1%20correlation).%20Consider,%20also,%20the%20implications%20that%20he%20is%20a%20dog%20and%20cannot%20speak%20back,%20and%20it%20seems%20clear%20that%20Auster%20is%20reinforcing%20Lacan's%20belief%20that%20language%20is%20beyond%20our%20conscious%20control%20--%20it%20comes%20from%20another%20consciousness%20(that%20maybe%20we%20all%20-%20human%20and%20canine%20-%20share).">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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