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Ok, heres the thing. If this book was real, and the main characters Belano and Lima were real, I may not be cool enough to hang out with them. So for me, reading this novel was so much fun, like hanging out with the in crowd, the rebels I never was and certainly am guaranteeing I won't be by sticking my nose in this long novel. This is about poets and the edgy and the literati that Belano and Lima ran in, yet from time to time I suspected that Belano and Lima never read. Which accentuated the au
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Dnf. Would probably have dropped it even without the gratuitous r*pe scene. I hear there are other narrators after the 17 year old misogynistic and homophobic aspiring poet I'm supposed to take a shine to. Sorry guys. (Not sorry.)
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Sep 20, 2007
Jessica
marked it as to-read
Jul 17, 2008
Marcia
marked it as to-read
