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Masquerade by Kit Williams
5.0
When I was a kid, people around the world were driving themselves mad trying to crack the code hidden in the words and pictures in this book, in order to find the buried treasure. Totally changed my life.
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
5.0
At last! A book that puts rubber gloves, Dr. Nut sodas, jelly donuts, Big Chief tablets, and Boethius squarely on the side of good (that of theology and geometry), while soundly berating Debbie Reynolds, Mark Twain, "Turkey in the Straw," bowling, and Scenicruisers— which are all obviously an abortion of good taste.
I don't exactly know where the exercise board fits in.
I don't exactly know where the exercise board fits in.
The Shamanic Way of the Bee: Ancient Wisdom and Healing Practices of the Bee Masters by Simon Buxton
3.0
Despite my initial misgivings (the Tori Amos cover blurb, the fruity magickal language), I enjoyed reading this story of a modern man's initiation into an ancient tradition. Scenes range from odd to fantastic, provoking my skeptical side. But it did make me wish a little that I were British, and reared on the purest source of fairy tales.
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter
5.0
The tension between reason and passion in this book makes me feel like I'm being pelted by champagne snowballs while sitting in a hot tub of Mexican cocoa. Carter is a wicked, wanton wordsmith; a cerebral chanteuse of the silent opera that is a novel.
It is bitterly difficult to find a decent copy of this book (in the US, at least). The fuzzy, fading print of the edition pictured may thwart all but the most devoted readers. But if you're of the party that considers the brain the most potent love organ, if constant mutations of setting and style intrigue you, if vivid, obscenely fetishistic vocabulary whets your whistle, do what you can to net this glittering beauty.
It is bitterly difficult to find a decent copy of this book (in the US, at least). The fuzzy, fading print of the edition pictured may thwart all but the most devoted readers. But if you're of the party that considers the brain the most potent love organ, if constant mutations of setting and style intrigue you, if vivid, obscenely fetishistic vocabulary whets your whistle, do what you can to net this glittering beauty.
Ken and Thelma: The Story of A Confederacy of Dunces by Joel L. Fletcher
3.0
I appreciate this honest, yet discreet, memoir. The author boldly confronts all of the most controversial topics related to Confederacy — Toole's suicide, his questionable sexuality, his infamously overbearing mother, the editor that encouraged and then rejected the novel, the missing revisions, the apparent curse against making a film version, the badly botched biography — with a voice full of humor and compassion. It is obvious that his affection for Toole was sincere, and his motives for publishing this book were to gently set the record straight.