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by Frederick Exley, Nick Hornby
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travelin
travelin rated it 10 years ago
Exceptionally lucky find in a kind of English book Pluto. It already has some staggering insights, but I'm going to take a wild guess what Exley revealed to his psychiatrist, based on the scenes he watches in the latrine.This book was turning into a truly impressive high-wire act of style over subst...
AC
AC rated it 13 years ago
This is not a book about sports. If you don't know who Frederick Exley is -- and I didn't till I found it among Thomas' books (or was it a recommendation from him...? - well, either way...) -- then don't not read it because you think it's about sports. It has nothing to do with sports, except that t...
A Man With An Agenda
A Man With An Agenda rated it 15 years ago
Glibly, you may call 'A Fan's Notes' the man's 'Bell Jar'. They are both semi-autobiographical novels dealing with the author's periods of hospitalization and their struggles getting started in life. Both books are excellent.Exley is a completely disarming author. Where Plath always kept a certain d...
Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous
Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous rated it 16 years ago
Read a chunk of this for a class, but I really liked what I did read, and plan to read the whole thing eventually.
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