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Blood and Guts in High School: A Novel (Acker, Kathy)
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Excellent book. While my perfect rating (not that it matters) may drop over time, this was a jarringly satisfying read, one where the slipstream sexual complexity of all the smattered nonsense makes the cliches within (esp. at the end) all the more simple, profound, and resonant. It's something of an immature work perhaps, but I sort of think of it a... »
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Empire of the Senseless: A Novel (Acker, Kathy)
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I tried for years to stick up for Acker, but her concepts are always infinitely more interesting than her execution. The truth is she had no natural feel for language -- there's no music to her prose, none at all, and all of the novels sound better when just the titles are read. But the idea of her as the female punk "underground" "subversive" and "tra... »
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Great Expectations: A Novel (Acker, Kathy)
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In this novel Acker aims her critique at the gnarly intersection of capitalism, violence, sexual dysfunction, and male dominance. In order to live out this critique, Acker jettisons most of the (male-dominated) traditions of narrative as she writes, systematically disrupting the stability of characters and setting, and rejecting the claim to authorial... »
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Don Quixote: A Novel (Acker, Kathy)
Kathy Acker is a truly unique writer. She blends classics, politics, surrealism, autobiographical elements, raw emotion, graphic, "pornographic" scenes, h... »
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In Memoriam to Identity (Acker, Kathy)
Okay, perhaps I'm just not as "punk" as I used to be (or consider myself), but this was instantly the worst book I've read -- well, skimmed through -- in ... »
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