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Oh my god this book is so totally weird and wonderful. Reading this is kind of like watching an insane person dance. There's all these bizarre jerks and twists and feints that are completely implausible until they happen, and you open your mouth to protest but Miranda just says shh shh shh, it's goin Leggi tutto

Typically when I don’t like a buzz book I delight in mocking word choices and flimsy chapters or the thin line separating the novel’s plot and the author’s bio. The book becomes a contender for worst-of-the-year and I quietly, okay not-so quietly, dare someone, anyone to write something worse. When Leggi tutto

“Real comes and goes and isn’t very interesting.” Sometimes I just need a book to take me completely out of my own world and to someplace else altogether. This time I don’t mean the armchair travel sort of story. I need something that doesn’t make me have to sit and reflect on my own life. I want a n Leggi tutto

WOW! I have never turned on a book so quickly in my entire life. When I started it I was in LOVE with its unique, odd hilariousness. But then shit got REAL weird. Fantasy sex stuff that wasn't interesting or funny at all. Just as I'd be about to give up, July would go back to her normal funniness ab Leggi tutto

The first BAD book by Miranda July...not sure as it is the first and last I'll read by her. Bizarre is a good way to describe it. The main character Cheryl - mid 40's - faces anxiety with disturbing sexual fantasies. She suffers from OCD and is mentally unstable. She is unlikable and the story is ju Leggi tutto

Miranda July, you wonderfully weird creature. This book is probably one of the craziest things I've ever read, but it works, absolutely and completely. She crafts sentences that make you think the world was missing something until they were written. She finds genuine humor in the sadness, and poigna Leggi tutto

" I've been meaning to buy that one myself ," " Yeah I saw Lena Dunham gave it a good review so I had to pick it up! " -The interaction between the lady behind the counter in Waterstone's and I when I bought this book. The First Bad Man is a novel that has been hyped for months. Literally every single of t Leggi tutto

If you take a chisel and gently chip off the elaborate encrustation of florid psychology that at times sends this novel moonwalking towards the field of dreams that is bizarro fiction but really only up to its multihued verges and peeking across, then what I think you get is the plot of the 1966 Swi Leggi tutto