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Blood and Guts in High School (Penguin Modern Classics)

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If someone has a logical point to make it does not necessarily have to be laden with a metaphysical analogy to be compelling. Capitalism is not like a man raping his daughter.

You think it's enough? Nope. Unfortunately, Janey has cancer. When she realises that her beloved Slave Trader is going to leave her, she escapes to Tangier, the Moroccan haven for Beatniks, artists and junkies, where she meets Jean Genet. The strange couple sets off on a hallucinatory journey to Egypt in search of an ancient book that teaches how men can change their nature and become... well, something else. Doves, alligators, souls, who knows. Whatever it is, it's better than what we are now.Rarely has my eye brow spent so much time raised over one piece of prose. Eventually the right eye brow got tired of being sceptically raised and I had to give it a rest and raise the left one instead. I'm giving this book one star because I can't give it half a star and because if I gave it no stars then that would imply a state of unratedness which might lead people to erroneously conclude at first glance that I loved it so much I felt there were not enough stars available or that I was too lazy or forgetful to apply any stars at all.

I was going to start by saying something shady about film journalists and how boring they are. But then I read that you used to have a blog about film, right? Culture is our highest form of life. And it is literature more than any other art which enables us to grasp this higher life, for literature is the most abstract of the arts. It is the only art which is not sensual." Seriously, what's this supposed to be? I love a good anti-novel as much as the next pretentious hipster, but don't just slap together a bunch of stuff and then bore me to death with it. Whilst I appreciate the non too subtle message of female sexualisation, exploitation and degradation, the curve balls keep coming hard and fast, but always from left field. So, mono-dimensional diatribe, perhaps seeking to numb with repetitive mantra even though the palette of media truncates.Janey is the symbol of innocence in the modern world, and her story is an allegory depicting how it is stifled and exploited. It's also a heartrending, often poetic celebration of its potential: "We are all alike, we are all immaculately crazy".

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