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		<![CDATA[Soft added 'Jesus Land: A Memoir']]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 00:06:33 -0700</pubDate>
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	<span id="reviewTextContainer20120633" style="">&quot;<span id="freeTextContainerreview20120633" class="reviewText">I took this book to the laundry mat, which is where I do most of my reading on Sundays.  I finished it later that evening.<br/><br/>I loved this book for its honesty and realistic accounts of what a paramedic goes through in Harlem.  Their job is so very v<a href="#" onclick="Element.show('freeTextreview20120633'); Element.hide('freeTextContainerreview20120633'); return false;">...more</a></span>
<span id="freeTextreview20120633" style="display:none" class="reviewText">I took this book to the laundry mat, which is where I do most of my reading on Sundays.  I finished it later that evening.<br/><br/>I loved this book for its honesty and realistic accounts of what a paramedic goes through in Harlem.  Their job is so very very important, yet in this book he is never thanked or appreciated by the community.  Its hard job to see death and horror on a daily basis, and eventually he sees himself changing.  <br/><br/>I dont want to add spoilers to this.  I do recommend it as its a good read!<a href="#" onclick="Element.hide('freeTextreview20120633'); Element.show('freeTextContainerreview20120633'); return false;">...less</a></span>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 08:12:08 -0700</pubDate>
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	<span id="reviewTextContainer17161886" style="">&quot;<span id="freeTextContainerreview17161886" class="reviewText">i heard lydia millet read the first chapter of this book in a soho cafe, and when she stopped i wanted to crawl to her and wrap myself around her leg and beg her to read the next one. i don't enjoy touching strangers, or most people i know, and gener<a href="#" onclick="Element.show('freeTextreview17161886'); Element.hide('freeTextContainerreview17161886'); return false;">...more</a></span>
<span id="freeTextreview17161886" style="display:none" class="reviewText">i heard lydia millet read the first chapter of this book in a soho cafe, and when she stopped i wanted to crawl to her and wrap myself around her leg and beg her to read the next one. i don't enjoy touching strangers, or most people i know, and generally have no urge to do so. that's how fierce lydia is. <a href="#" onclick="Element.hide('freeTextreview17161886'); Element.show('freeTextContainerreview17161886'); return false;">...less</a></span>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 08:10:38 -0700</pubDate>
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	<span id="reviewTextContainer14538142" style="">&quot;<span id="freeTextContainerreview14538142" class="reviewText"><b>By Marc Weingarten</b><br/><br/>If Lydia Millet played by the normal rules of social satire, she might have been as large as T.C. Boyle by now. But whereas most satirists are looking for laughs much of the time, regardless of how sharp their knives migh<a href="#" onclick="Element.show('freeTextreview14538142'); Element.hide('freeTextContainerreview14538142'); return false;">...more</a></span>
<span id="freeTextreview14538142" style="display:none" class="reviewText"><b>By Marc Weingarten</b><br/><br/>If Lydia Millet played by the normal rules of social satire, she might have been as large as T.C. Boyle by now. But whereas most satirists are looking for laughs much of the time, regardless of how sharp their knives might be, Millet is more the whimsical polemicist. Her novels are fanciful and surreal; rather than gently nudging everyday life into the realm of fluffy absurdity, she's trying to knock reality upside the head, thus revealing our venal and craven natures to ourselves.<br/><br/>Consider her last book, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart (2005), in which the fathers of nuclear fusion — Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Szilard and Enrico Fermi — rise from the dead and are dragooned by the book's bored librarian protagonist into seeing the damage they've wrought with their nuclear dreams. What follows is a bizarre missionary campaign of sorts for global comity that becomes a lively smack-down between reason and faith, science and God. It's a novel of ideas presented in the appealing guise of a warped picaresque.<br/><br/>Millet's empathetic and angry new book, How the Dead Dream, takes up many of the themes from Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, exposing as it does the moral rot of America's go-go capitalism. The book's protagonist, T., is a man given to poetic rapture over the restorative properties of enormous wealth. This is no Gordon Gecko wannabe, a venal bounty hunter looking for the big score. Rather, T.'s relationship to money verges on the religiously devout; he feels a deep kinship to his filthy lucre. &quot;As there was only one intelligence residing in a self, as trees grew upward toward the sun... In the lurch and flux, in all the variation and the same, it was only money that could set a person free.&quot; <br/><br/><a target="_blank" href="http://www.laweekly.com/art+books/books/green-dreams-lydia-millets-how-the-dead-dream/18188/&quot; target=&quot;_blank">Read the rest of the L.A. Weekly review here</a>.<a href="#" onclick="Element.hide('freeTextreview14538142'); Element.show('freeTextContainerreview14538142'); return false;">...less</a></span>
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	<span id="reviewTextContainer18859296" style="">&quot;<span id="freeTextContainerreview18859296" class="reviewText">Felicia Sullivan gave me the kick in the butt to finish reading this book and I really can't thank her enough. It did remind me of a dreamscape--the way so many stunningly odd and disparate realities were all elements of T's continuous life path. The<a href="#" onclick="Element.show('freeTextreview18859296'); Element.hide('freeTextContainerreview18859296'); return false;">...more</a></span>
<span id="freeTextreview18859296" style="display:none" class="reviewText">Felicia Sullivan gave me the kick in the butt to finish reading this book and I really can't thank her enough. It did remind me of a dreamscape--the way so many stunningly odd and disparate realities were all elements of T's continuous life path. The last 30 pages were really remarkable, but you can't get there without having taken the full ride. I think the book is an incredible achievement and I know I'll come back to it again and again.<a href="#" onclick="Element.hide('freeTextreview18859296'); Element.show('freeTextContainerreview18859296'); return false;">...less</a></span>
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		<![CDATA[Soft added 'Distance Makes the Heart Grow Sick: Eighty Five Postcards']]>
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