Books by Blake Butler
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review 1: A truly unique book, unlike anything I've ever read. And whatever the feel-good book of the year was for 2009, this was the last book on the other end of the bookshelf. A profound and harrowing diary consisting of one unnamed narrator's descriptions of life before and after an un...
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review 1: this is like a friend recounting a very lucid dream or hallucination, complete with the nested asides that tend to dominate the story rather than distract from it. plot-wise I'm not terribly sure what's going on at any given moment: there is a girl, and she is moving through the ...
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review 1: "THE SOUND OUR DOGS UNDERSTOOD ABOUT US, SEEING. SLEEPING IN THOSE ROOMS; THE WORDS WRITTEN ON THEIR RIBS." I'm not sure why or whether I was expecting something different. Sure, the backflapcopy says "nonfiction," says "memoir"; I found this book (a practical joke?) in Health an...
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review 1: I don't really know what to write about this book except that it was a lot of fun to read. The content of the book was remarkable but also the context. I guess it's 'speculative fiction' or a 'new order'. I've read that the book is a reinvention of the novel. Maybe not, but i...
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review 1: Scorch Atlas finds itself holding contradictory positions in my mind. On one hand, it is fairly brilliant: the surreal devastation of the world told by proxy; a random smattering of literary puzzle pieces that form a mind-numbingly grotesque gestalt. On the other hand, the postmo...
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review 1: This book was a feat. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Even though I read it through to the end, I know there are so many things to go back and reread. Warren Ellis called it something like "Poetry of the insane". I'm not big in comparing authors to other authors unless all I ca...