false 15 149 148 true 5887916 read 1 true 706731 currently-reading 0 true 706730 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78235173 karen's review of Our Ecstatic Days: A Novel
by Steve Erickson

They are two of my absolute favorites. I like Ecstatic the most...But, yes, you MUST start with SEA.

Karen, you know how much i love The Zoo Where You're Fed To God. So, here's Ventura's review. You may have read this one already.

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/... ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77387781 karen's review of Some Other Place. The Right Place.
by Donald Harington

i started with WITH and then plunged into SOME OTHER PLACE...and then onto the first Stay More book, Lightening Bug...

Then I met you, Karen, and I think you said something that got me to pick up Architecture.

Some Other Place, The Right Place and WITH are probably the two that hit me the hardest and where I start most people. But lately, I've been feeling/seeing the brilliance of Lightening Bug.

]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73060931 Generosity: An Enhancement (Hardcover) by Richard Powers
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just beautiful...

i wish the last fifty pages hadn't ever ended. this book ties into all the others very beautifully and with definite surprises. it also promises us three more books......................such a deeply enjoyable story. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37011758 to: The Easy Chain (Paperback) by Evan Dara
- well it's really something way beyond what anybody expe-

-it was and, yes, it did but don't let anybody tell you that this one has the glare suggested by...what? by last chances, or, no. It's the pages that are blank I'm talking about.

-But the book is more than that. This one somehow manages to glow from within, whereas the last scrapbook he wrote don't touch it at all like that. No, no. I'm only comparing to suggest what should be obvious. Dara

-Dara pops, rolls and rams this mo' fo' right down your throat and, b#@%#, it's not only the fact that he reveals a dude you only see through oth- you only/cause he makes Lincoln, the main dude, only be the projection of a disparate party of voices. So, see, as you read on and on beyond the notching and ratchelling that Dara is setting up via the "p[lot}", it almost does, yea, take on a light from within itself.

-but nobody understands that source of that light, even those who let Caspier whip them up into an epistemological fit of pleasure. Because this book hates the upper-class pleasures of Tom Wolfe and Andy Beathimulant. This book eat their breakfast and sans the Socratic epitaphs waiting for the sunday paper, baby. This book explodes right in the middle of its own excellence, kiddo. This book evokes only the cash, reversing the charges to change you won't ever give to the guy with his hand wispily and wastefully extended. Because this/yeabut/ no this book/ yea BUT/ NO BECAUSE THIS BOOK/

- YEA , but you're leaving out what. oh can't you, can't you see can't you know that this is over and beyond what you ever wanted. you wanted this to be an empty void or a space to praise and angry
and
a space a space to praise
without the shucks or locks or poses
a space a trace to praise
without the shills or shouts our roses
a space to praise a space
without the shocks or shouts or poses


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a failed attempt to not mock but unlock and it's gross what just happened here

DAra's not failed the water in a city that want to give it to the $. Da 'a wants a pool in which expectations replace the desire to get tanner. 'ara is expecting us to lock down and let it get lit from the :]]]]]within. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58147099 to: Imperfect Thirst (Paperback) by Galway Kinnell
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