Geek Love : A Novel

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Summary: One of The Best Books of the Century
Review: I picked up a copy of "Geek Love" in Paris and kept it close at hand while I bummed around Egypt, the Greek Islands and Italy for a few months. To say that I read this book is not sufficient--I savored it, letting the grotesqueries of every paragraph slide into my psyche like so many venom-packed vipers. Dunn has concocted a startling stew of psychosis, twisted values, sexual urgency and destruction, every line spiced with some of the most incisive writing and imaginative character development I have ever seen. This book is a direct slap-in-the-face for all humanity and after reading "Geek Love" you will understand why most of us deserve such a slap. Stunning! This book kicked my rear the same way "A Confederacy of Dunces" did. I laughed until cried until I laughed until I almost barfed. The scene where the Binewski children scamper down from the farmer's apple tree has to be one of the most hilarious in the annals of recent literature. A knockout writer, A knockout piece of fiction, and a sickenly-sweet Judas kiss on the butt of humanity! Wow!

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Summary: Read it!!!
Review: This is the best book I ever read. Genius. Pure genius. Don't let the horror aspect throw you off; there are layers of meaning found in the horror. After all: who says it's horror? Norms.

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Summary: The one book I wish I wrote.
Review: Wonderful!! Absolutely brilliant. I've wondered for years if there was any way to put into writing my feeling concerning "Norms" and the attitudes they inflict on those who don't fit into their reality. This book is well written, repulsive, addictive, and holds the one message I've always wanted to share with the world. I'm different, I'm proud of it, and I wouldn't change it for the world. This author demonstrates the gifts gained by difference--and the horror that sometimes ensues. Bravo! Marvelous! Please read this book --don't be like the reader that put it down after 25 pages. You can learn something from what you deem repulsive. Party on.

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Summary: Absolutely the MOST ORIGINAL book I've ever read!
Review: Can you believe this was actually on my high school reading list for honors english? But it's really a great book, extremely well-written. I've recommended it to a lot of my friends, but I think they're unwilling to read it for fear of admitting to their own freakish natures beneath their innocent visage. It's an amazing book, emotionally touching to the core. Unlike most of the books I've read, I believe Geek Love to be a must-read. For a person to get in touch with that weird side of their personality, embrace it, and understand it, I mean, WOW. It's an indescribable feeling.

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Summary: My #1 Recommended Book
Review: I recommend this book to all of my cool friends. And the ones who have had the guts to read it recommend it to their friends. Geek Love is a very unique story, and I saw it as one about what "wierd" really is. The story's narrator worries that she is ONLY an albino dwarf with a hump, and thus feels useless among her more "freakish" siblings. Sure, it's graphic, but not gratuitously gross. I was also impressed by the way Dunn showed how disconnected the family was from the "real world" by purposely not identifying the time period in which the novel is set.

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Summary: A great read...
Review: Wow. This book was all of the above and more. I didn't focus on the fact that they were all freaks, but more on their lives. The book mad me weep in several spots. I thought it was extreamly well written and have recomended it to all my friends. Everyone should read this book, more than once. When you read it, try not to focus on the phisical rather than the emotionall.

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Summary: Disgusting. Gross
Review: No. I didn't even get past page 25. It sicked me out that much -- and this from a person who this doesn't often happen to, in any situation. My experience with this book was over three years ago, and those 25 pages haunt me still. Too gross for me.

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Summary: Weird and freaky -- yet strangely compelling...
Review: Yuck. This book gave me the creeps, but it was so cool. A completely gross story, but, hey, it was original. The book is well-written and the story is well-told. Read it so that you can explain it to people at parties.

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Summary: outrageous, yet about things we can all relate to
Review: I was told to read this by a friend who was in the Peace Corps at the time. I was pregnant with my first child and read most of this on a plane.I loved the book but seldom know who to recommend it to--and have a hard time finding another book as unusual to top it.

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Summary: This is an excellent book of oddities and human life.
Review: truly grea