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Title: Nuanced, balanced.
Review: Baker's prose and topics of discussion are incredibly nuanced here, and by the end of the book he's uncovered a whole new type of humor based on soft, delicate minutiae. He has a gift for the sort of highly personal aesthetic observations I would normally associate with a new friend or a lover's uniquely individual tastes, but here these things are communicated in a short and sweet book. Baker loves to observe things with a microscope, that's his style, but here he balances his desire for a radical literary form by channeling it through a very comfortable, somewhat bittersweat, and incredibly observant voice. I still hear the voice two years after reading this work, very subtle and very powerful.
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