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Zadignose
Sep 26, 2017 added it
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This is an amazing book, hyperbolic, mad, outrageous, cynical, expressive, and audacious. Acker has portrayed an odd and often grotesque intersection of nightmare and fantasy in which the worst nightmare often is the realization of fantasy. At the same time she gives very real insight into the mind of a person whose character and vision have been shaped by a life of abuse and exploitation. She doesn't mind being crude and inelegant, and she happily presents a disjointed and often surreal narrati ...more
Rachel
Huh. Oh heeeyyyy picture of a penis on the second page.
Wendy
Mar 09, 2022 marked it as abandoned
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Go home, 1001 books list, and sleep it off, okay?
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