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    <about><![CDATA[I am co-editor of the online experimental lit journal LIES/ISLE (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.liesisle.com">http://www.liesisle.com</a>), and dump my own art &amp; writing on my personal website, linked above.<br/><br/><br/>Books in the &quot;to read&quot; category of my list are books that I own but have not yet read.  I keep track of books I want to read but do not yet own using an <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://amazon.com">amazon.com</a> wishlist.  <br/><br/>Books in the &quot;currently-reading&quot; category are not necessarily books that I am currently reading; rather, they are books I currently have checked out from the library.]]></about>
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4413184.La_Medusa">La Medusa (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/790907.Vanessa_Place">Vanessa Place</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:42:44 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book is fucking massive, and took me almost two months to read (way, way more time than I've spent on a book in a very long time), but I think it was worth it.  The voices are all entirely separate and from an individual at the same time, which is kind of a mindfuck in it's own right.  It's cer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76903202">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/375858.Kramers_Ergot_Volume_3">Kramers Ergot Volume 3 (Kramer's Ergot)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9530.Various">Various</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:39:01 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[While it doesn't approach the greatness of the later volumes, there's certainly a lot of great stuff in here (even if it's in Black &amp; White instead of color).  The Ben Jones/Paperrad comic in here is honestly probably one of my favorite thing he's/they've ever done, worth it for that alone.  ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:37:10 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[whoa, I just read this tonight and while I didn't think it neared the greatest of later volumes, I didn't think it was worthy of a 2!]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7152818-the-screwball-asses">The Screwball Asses (Semiotext(e) / Intervention)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/631633.Guy_Hocquenghem">Guy Hocquenghem</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:36:12 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A short essay/series of essays by Hocquenghem about &quot;screwball homosexuals&quot;--basically non-revolutionary, homogenized, bourgeois homosexuals at times, &amp; revolutionary non-sexual beings at others.  This builds on ideas presented in <em>Homosexual Desire</em>, but kind of pushes things to an even mor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81749690">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223929.Thinking_Architecture_2nd_Expanded_Edition">Thinking Architecture: 2nd Expanded Edition (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/130983.Peter_Zumthor">Peter Zumthor</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:22:55 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is a short book that collects a number of lectures &amp; essays by Zumthor (who I can't recall having heard of before).  There is some very good stuff in here (My favorite excerpts are linked here: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://murdermystery.livejournal.com/450239.html" title="http://murdermystery.livejournal.com/450239.html">http://murdermystery.livejournal.com/450...</a>).  However, there's something clunky about either the tra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82539061">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5962048.Bldgblog_Book">Bldgblog Book (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2032859.Geoff_Manaugh">Geoff Manaugh</a>]]></action_text>
    <link>http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82013432</link>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:03:36 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6415701-the-complete-stories-of-j-g-ballard">The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2889561.J_G_Ballard">J.G. Ballard</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:02:48 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6514269-title-tk">Title TK (livre + DVD-ROM )</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1335074.Thierry_Kuntzel">Thierry Kuntzel</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:02:07 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/617818.Dreams_of_a_Young_Girl">Dreams of a Young Girl (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2443400.David_Hamilton">David  Hamilton</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:34:14 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Like with <em>Sisters</em>, reading Robbe-Grillet's prose divorced from <em>Topology of a Phantom City</em> &amp; contextualized within the context of David Hamilton's photographs (with the double intertextuality of a character in <em>Topology...</em> named DH [=David Hamilton:]), the whole thing creates a textual maze throughout...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81750003">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6568668-cinema-sewer-volume-2">Cinema Sewer Volume 2: The Adults Only Guide to History's Sickest and Sexiest Movies! (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/238663.Robin_Bougie">Robin Bougie</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:30:46 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The thing I like best about Cinema Sewer is that it somehow makes me manage to forget any sort of analytic obsession I have with film and, however briefly, exist in the pleasure zone of initially discovering exploitation and euro-horror, bad action movies and plotted hardcore porn.  Bougie's writing...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81864914">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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