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Ben Lerner

3.89 of 5 Votes: 5
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Books by Ben Lerner
10:04 (2014)
language
English
3.91 of 5 Votes: 5
review 1: Pretentious hipster lit. Couldn't shake the feeling from the get-go that here was an author, fresh out of Iowa or some other esteemed writers program, trying desperately to prove himself capable of producing something artful. It's such a shame since I loved Atocha Station, identi...
Leaving the Atocha Station (2011)
language
English
3.78 of 5 Votes: 3
review 1: It's been a long time since I've been so absorbed by a book. Enough to read it on my way to work, to look forward to any sort of break and the end of the day when I could return to it, to feel sorry when it ended. Equal parts funny, sincere, down to earth and up in the clouds, lu...
Mean Free Path (2010)
language
English
4.19 of 5 Votes: 4
review 1: Mean Free Path is quite experimental, in the way it uses language to reconstruct and destruct ideas. The recombination of text is playful and opens up the poem for reinterpretations. The fragmentation is quite jarring. Lerner invites his readers to rearrange his own poems like bu...
22.04 (2014)
language
English
3.87 of 5 Votes: 2
review 1: This was a strange little book. It is told from the point of view of the author of the text. So it is as if the main character/narrator is actually writing the book that the reader is experiencing. It is a clever, though not totally original, technique and, overall, the author...
Saliendo de la estación de Atocha (2013)
language
English
3.78 of 5 Votes: 2
review 1: I found the stream-of-consciousness a bit grating, but also interesting and engaging enough to pull me through to the end. For the first half - maybe even three-quarters - of the book, I just didn't care much. I never felt like I got to know the narrator, because he was so busy p...
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