MuttersomeTaxicab

• Rated 5 stars

“I remember reading this one in high school and being blown away. Perhaps I've moved on to people with better prose, but Dick's ideas and stories have always kept me coming back to them.

Plus, I have undying love for the book that made "kipple" a fixture in my vocabulary.”

MuttersomeTaxicab wrote this review Wednesday, March 7 2007. ( reply | permalink )

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• Rated 5 stars

“At once engaged in playing with the postmodern aesthetic as much as taking the piss out of anyone looking for "meaning" in a text, Little Casino tries hard to make you hate it. And it succeeds the first time through. You curse Gilbert Sorrentino as a pretentious asshole, engorged on his own idea of talent and at the same time trying to take the piss out of his own writing because (you think) he is afraid he can't hold his own.

The second time through, somehow, even though he's spat in your face the entire time, called you an idiot, made you FEEL like an idiot... Something happens, and you start to enjoy yourself in the msot perverse way imaginable.

And then, you start wanting more.”

MuttersomeTaxicab wrote this review Wednesday, March 7 2007. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 5 stars

“The broadview edition of this text is amazing, with a lot of useful corollary information. The storyline itself has held up very, very well over the years. Shelley did an incredible job animating the characters and pacing the the plot.

My opinion is somewhat skewed, of course. I've written at least two essays on this text and both have been pretty thinly-veiled love letters to Frankenstein (the text, not the character.)”

MuttersomeTaxicab wrote this review Wednesday, March 7 2007. ( reply | permalink )