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Fugue XXIX
Forrest Aguirre
Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2005
Fugue XXIX is the first full-length collection of short stories available from World Fantasy Award winning editor and author Forrest Aguirre. These marvelous tales come to you from the fringe of speculative literary fiction where innovative minds keep busy dreaming up the future’s uncharted territories and mining forgotten treasures of the past. Whether exploring the stars or unearthing ancient ...
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Survivor: A Novel
Chuck Palahniuk
Anchor, 2000
Survivor: A Novel
+ Great
+ amazing imagination
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk *****
Survivor is the story of where it all went wrong. The point in our lives where we have all had choices to make. The choices that affect the rest of our lives. Survivor is the search for something far and something big, maybe something bigger than all of us, it ...
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The Fall of Never
Ronald, Damien Malfi
Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2006
loved it immensely
+ Modern gothic-style horror by talented new writer
+ A highly original modern gothic
+ Fall of Never Highly Recommended
+ Great book by a first time novelist
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Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
Chuck Palahniuk
Doubleday, 2007
An Amazing Book!
+ Great
+ Thanks
+ Go Chuck Go!
+ Like I told you, I didn't really meet Rant Casey until after he was dead
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Last Burn in Hell: Director's Cut
John, Edward Lawson
Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2006
"A Punch Line Aimed at Your Chin . . ."
+ Prison life, Mexico, Pop stardom, and WEIRDNESS...
+ Forget all you know or think you know
+ A fun read -- with extras!
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Choke
Chuck Palahniuk
Anchor, 2002
Funny, strange, disturbing, good
This is the first Palahniuk book I've read, and I look forward to reading more of his books.
Based upon the description of the book, this isn't one that I'd likely pick up to read...the redemption/recovery/whatever you call it of a sex addict just didn't seem that interesting. However, ...
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Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon (Crown Journeys)
Chuck Palahniuk
Crown, 2003
Great Glimpse into a Great City
+ A different type of travel guide
+ Drag Queens and Aborted Fetuses in Portland, OR
+ An interesting look at Portland
+ Oregonian loving this book
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Diary: A Novel
Chuck Palahniuk
Anchor, 2004
Brilliant and visceral
+ My favorite Chuck book
+ Deceptively philosophical
Palahniuk's brutally honest look at the suffering of his creative protagonist is haunting and grips you right away. If you've grown up in a small beach town, you understand the love-hate relationship between locals and tourists. If you're an artist, you'll understand it even more. Palahniuk uses ...
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An Invisible Sign of My Own
Aimee Bender
Doubleday, 2000
Life Changes When You Stop Hiding from Yourself
+ Offbeat masterpiece
+ Worthwhile read!
Ms. Bender has written a beautiful story about the fear of loss (among other things) and how that fear can stop one from living. I can identify with Mona Gray, and who can't (except for some of the previous reviewers)? Bender makes Mona's inner struggles accessible through strong story telling ...
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Vacation
Jeremy C. Shipp
Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2007
The Future of an Obscure American Dream
+ Vacation Penalty
+ A book everyone needs to read. Trust me...
+ Strange and fantastic!
+ war-torn forest and academia aren't all that dissimilar
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Love and Sacrifice: Touching Stories About Troubled Relationships
Zen Films Publishing, 2007
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1999
One of the best
+ Slaughterhouse-Five
+ Well-Deserving of it's "Classic" Status
+ So it goes.
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Lemur
Tom Bradley
Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2008
AT LAST . . . an ORIGINAL serial killer!
+ Social commentary wrapped in absurdity
+ Just Eat It
+ PURSUING KARMIC SADHANA WHILE PATTING A BUS BOY'S BUTTOCKS
+ Bizarro Satire in the form of a bad Anthony Hopkins impression
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Text: Ur
Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2007
Text:Ur - The New Book of Masks
+ For fans of the unusual
Forrest Aguirre, ed. Text:UR - The New Book of Masks. Hyattsville: Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2007. Hardcover. ISBN 1933293209.
Featuring such award winning writers as Brian Evenson, Lance Olsen, Rikki Ducornet, and Terese Svoboda, Forrest Aguirre's anthology Text:Ur - The New Book of Masks ...
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God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian
Kurt Vonnegut
Seven Stories Press, 2003
Round Trips
+ Vintage Vonnegut
+ Where's the rest of it?
+ Vonneguts favorite joke
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