Frank's World

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Summary: new reviews
Review: "...it is a remarkable piece of writing, a 227-page-rant...an amazing pile of words and images and arguments and hot, unbridled hatred. --Jim Knipfel, NY Press

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Review: "Content aside, the thing that seperates words of transgressive fiction from ordinary books is their appearance...even the typeface inside (F.W.) is a consideration, it's italic. Rene Chun, The New York Times

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Summary: Praise for FRANK'S WORLD
Review: "Loud, rude, funny, horrifying-- and a great novel...a narrative tour de force, Pynchon-esque but with a harder edge."
--Booklist

"A loud gate-crasher at the experimental-fiction pool party."
--Kirkus Reviews

"The novel succeeds in presenting an explosively experimental form. It blows apart the current trend of 'writer's workshop' fiction."
--Boston Phoenix Literary Section

"Blending cyberpunk imagery, a picturesque plot and hallucinatory prose, FRANK'S WORLD [will] appeal to fans of the gritty, marginal work of Samuel Delany and Charles Bukowski."
--Publishers Weekly

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Summary: move over Kafka...
Review: a howling, screaming rant that capytures everything over-the-top about our over-informed, under-educated, stir-fired world...a giant, rolling ball of blurred images and surreal hyper-realities that will crush anything in its way, including any belief systems or footholds you may have thought you had...stands proudly between Burroughs, Joyce, Kafka, and Pynchon...except it will make you howl with laughter...a 240-page outside jazz riff...the great american novel about the great american underbelly?

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Summary: move over Kafka...
Review: I greatly enjoyed this book, so much that I had to read it several times. The language, imagery, and wacked-out narrative voice kept me going non-stop. My favorite part is the two-three pages he dedicates to building a huge run of various Barbie doll characters. I show it to all my friends. I've lent this book to several people and they've all been pleased with it--least they tell me that.

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Summary: hilarious, just downright hilarious
Review: I greatly enjoyed this book, so much that I had to read it several times. The language, imagery, and wacked-out narrative voice kept me going non-stop. My favorite part is the two-three pages he dedicates to building a huge run of various Barbie doll characters. I show it to all my friends. I've lent this book to several people and they've all been pleased with it--least they tell me that.

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Summary: WHOA!
Review: The most important book that's been vomited into our collective consiousness, perhaps ever! Compare him to Burroughs,compare him to Bukowski,compare him to Pynchon,but you're still miles away from the ballpark Mangels seems to be playing in.Try reading it out loud to a friend...or maybe someone you don't particularly like,even. This is every speed rap, caffeine-charged nightmare rant that can heard in any coffee house,in any American city,written in a cohesive, beautifully venomous form.If you respect your intellect... read this...then give it to someone you know who could use a good,swift kick.Go George! What's next,man? Is there anything left!

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Summary: WHOA!
Review: The most important book that's been vomited into our collective consiousness, perhaps ever! Compare him to Burroughs,compare him to Bukowski,compare him to Pynchon,but you're still miles away from the ballpark Mangels seems to be playing in.Try reading it out loud to a friend...or maybe someone you don't particularly like,even. This is every speed rap, caffeine-charged nightmare rant that can heard in any coffee house,in any American city,written in a cohesive, beautifully venomous form.If you respect your intellect... read this...then give it to someone you know who could use a good,swift kick.Go George! What's next,man? Is there anything left!

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Summary: Hell Lizards and the Mystic Mr. Ed
Review: This book is just increadible. This author takes everything cynic in the world and packs it into 230 pages. You WILL laugh out loud reading this book, trust me. If you're a fan of _Eraserhead_ and other such oddness, read this book.