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Title: You wouldn't want to share a carriage with this fellow
Review: I started this book because I love the quote about writing being but a different word for conversation. Yes, there are moments of great wit. However, they are lost within a mass of verbiage so dense that it makes your mortgage agreement look like a Little Golden Book. It's not the sublime non-linearity of Joyce's writing or Ornette Coleman's playing. It's the amplification of the self to an unbearable degree. Certainly a unique achievement, I guess. But so is Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music."
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