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Title: Wait 'Till It Comes Out In Cliff's Notes
Review: I can't make up my mind whether this book was written in the tradition of Pynchon and Barth to be taught in college English classes rather than read, or whether it's a Martin Amis-style wink-and-a prayer pot boiler with pretensions. The idea of having the narrator be a thousands-of-years-old bowl who comments on the action by relating stories of previous owners is rich in narrative possibility, which Fischer eschews in favor of semi-clever word play. The near total reliance on scenes of sexual activity and drug use to advance the narrative is a major fault. A better writer might have been able to pull it off but Fischer never gets beyond the banality of hipness.
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