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Title: My Cousin My Gastroenterologist by Dove Audio, Mark Leyner ISBN: 1-55800-302-9 Publisher: Dove Audio/new Star+media Pub. Date: November, 1990 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (28 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Mark Leyner: It's Love or Hate. I Love, Love, Love.
Comment: As you can see from the assortment of past reviews, people either love Mark Leyner or hate him (I wanted to use "get him" or "don't get him" but then this becomes snooty, and I'm trying to avoid snooty). He's different, what can I tell you? If you're a traditionalist who demands plot, theme and some semblence character development, you'll do better to move on past. However, if you fancy something a bit different, where the words and imagery take precedence over literature style-points, you've got to give Leyner a shot. I've found him to be especially popular with those who enjoy contemporary poetry, if that's more helpful. "My Cousin" was the first Leyner book I ever read and my mouth hung agape the whole way through- I never realized that anyone could get away with writing like that and be so great at it! Anyway, keep in mind, he's not for everyone, but if he's for you, you won't be sorry.
Rating: 5
Summary: Sometimes it's not the plot....
Comment: In the hyperkinetic style of writing, one Leyner has been doing for well over a decade now you have to take what happens as a fever dream or the author inviting you into his acid flashback world.
Mark Leyner has a gift for prose and uses it along with cultural icons to create smart, if sometimes near-incoherent fiction. I remember reading this to a class of computer music students after class and they were laughing so hard they were near tears.
Perhaps it is a love/hate thing but there is no denying Leyner can conjure up some witty situations and absurdist comedy. It isn't that Leyner is a bad writer, rather it is readers expectations that make "My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist" polarizing. Leyner's metaphors are great fun, he does not spend much time with scenic description unless it has significant import to the story. The dialog is crisp and, well weird, but in a droll way. His choices of charaters and their stories are funny and merit re-reading.
If you can check the book out try the first page or two. If you find it funny or engrossing you probably won't be let down. If it makes no sense you might as well put the book down as it's not going to get any easier to deal with.
To the right minded reader this book is a treasure.
Rating: 5
Summary: Why no love?
Comment: In a world of hate and war, we must take a look back on this book. "My Cousin" was the first book by Leyner I read.
And, I still read it. This tome of delightful, poetic anarchy is not for everyone; But, if you can be distracted by the rantings of a stick figure in a Jhonen Vasquez comic, then this should definetly be a treat for you.
I recommend "Enter The Squirrel".
I say "Ole`!" to this author. (That's a good thing.) And, I recommend this book to everyone I meet, pass by, or steal from.
My rating?
Two fists up.
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Title: The Tetherballs of Bougainville: A Novel by Mark Leyner ISBN: 067976349X Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Et Tu, Babe by Mark Leyner ISBN: 0679745068 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog by Mark Leyner ISBN: 0679745211 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: I Smell Esther Williams: And Other Stories by Mark Leyner ISBN: 0679750452 Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Aye, and Gomorrah: Stories by Samuel R. Delany ISBN: 0375706712 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 08 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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