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Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels
by Kathy Acker
I bought this book so I could read The Adult Life, but I also read the first two novels first. Individually, I'd probably give Black Tarantula and Nymphomaniac each one star & The Adult Life four, though I probably appreciate Adult Life much more having read the other two first. Adult Life has the closest thing to a stable narrative & consistent setting. People read Acker for the same reason they read Hubert Selby or William S. Burroughs, for language, not so much for story. Tarantula and Nyphomaniac are very early works and, while they are the most raw, they're also the most lacking in language, simultaneously nauseating and boring. But I would definitely recommend Adult Life to anyone who enjoyed Last Exit to Brooklyn or [b:Naked Lunch|7437|Naked Lunch The Restored Text|William S. Burroughs|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1219259455s/7437.jpg|4055].