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Jul 15, 2012
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This is one of the most creative books I have read in quite a while, and also really difficult to describe. One character is a man waging a war against Saturn (the planet), convinced that Saturn is the cause of his sadness. His daughter loves to eat limes and is learning from the Baby Nostradamus how to keep others from reading her mind. A saint is fleeing his canonization at the Vatican disguised as a Mexican wrestler. Mechanical tortoises, a woman made of paper, and a decomposing town also fig
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