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Spike519
  • Rated 1 stars

I read this at an impressionable age. I think I was 18 so it was somewhere around 1979. I found the paperback at my local Caldor, a store not unlike today's Target. Though I didn't have the vocabulary to describe the book then, I was aware of what I now recognize as the author's...

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  • Jon
      • Rated 3 stars

    I wanted so much to like this book. I did not finish reading it. Too many characters and names. It's like studying for a porn exam, where I need to know who was doing who. Sigh.

    Jon wrote this review Monday, June 22, 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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    Spike519
      • Rated 1 stars

    I read this at an impressionable age. I think I was 18 so it was somewhere around 1979. I found the paperback at my local Caldor, a store not unlike today's Target. Though I didn't have the vocabulary to describe the book then, I was aware of what I now recognize as the author's self-loathing, which he then projected outward. How else to explain a character getting high and then killed by a Studio 54-like retracting pole on a disco floor?

    Spike519 wrote this review Tuesday, October 21, 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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