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by: Vincent W. Sakowski
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780971357228
ISBN: 0971357226
Label: Eraserhead Press
Manufacturer: Eraserhead Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 156
Publication Date: December 01, 2001
Publisher: Eraserhead Press
Sales Rank: 193763
Studio: Eraserhead Press
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Product Description:
Take Alice in Wonderland, Dark City, and Pilgrim's Progress. Put them in a blender with a lot of dry ice. Mix and serve in a dirty, broken glass. And that's just the first chapter of Some Things Are Better Left Unplugged. This postmodern fable examines the need for myth, metaphor and identity. The story satirizes many of our everyday obsessions, including the pursuit of wealth and materialism; the thirst for empty spectacles and violence; and the need for obtaining social status. This absurd tale will delight you in the tradition of Camus' The Stranger and Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Like Books Without Plots & Dull Characters Without Names?
Awful. Save your money. Honestly THE WORST book I've ever had the misfortune to trust amazon-ians to talk me into reading! I couldn't tell you what that books about and I just finished it. There was no plot to the story; no purpose behind any activity the "characters" went thru; even the bizarre happenings were left unexplained and contained no metaphors. Basically it's just ramblings with the same people popping up again and again. I was hoping for surrealism with a good story behind it. If that's ... Read More
Rating: - Scra(m/b)bled Future
Sakowski has a ton of talent and can write well. If this is Bizarro (and the back cover says it is), then those who aspire to write such (as well as some who already have) should read and re-read this book. Except for a few editing issues, he shows knowledge of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure. This allows the reader to stay focused on the story.
The Amazon description does a good job of setting up the story. This is not a book with a lot of character depth. You know ... Read More
Rating: - Much better than Grape City
Haha this is in response to Razorgirl on our little thread about Grape City. Ultimately, Grape City was flat and left me unaffected. Conversely, Some Things Better Left Unplugged was fantastic. From the flawlessly eerie introduction all the way through our main character's journey, STBLU delivers an absurd yet meaningful story.
Rich details and a masterful use of language are evidence of Sakowski's superior writing. Talking at all about events in the story would be a waste because to ... Read More
Rating:  - An excellent satire about our society's nee for spectacles and useless consumer goods
I loved it. One of the weirdest novels I've ever read. Sakowski picks apart everything we are taught to believe and reveals the silliness of it all. Through a surreal lenses he catalogues everything that is entailed in being human. He goes against the modern novel format and creates an evocative anti-novel. I'm going to seek out everything he wrote.
Rating: - This book surprised me
After discovering Eraserhead Press through reading a book by Carlton Mellick III that a friend leant to me I decided to check out what else they have published and bought this book. In the description, this book says that it is post-modern but I wasn't exactly sure what that meant in relation to literature so I looked it up on wikipedia. One of the definitions described postmodernism as:
"A culturally pluralistic and profoundly interconnected global society lacking any single dominant center ... Read More
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