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	Murph 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	VD Anthology Vol. III by Brian Kelly (Goodreads Author), Kay Gillard (Contributor), Jimi Odell (Contributor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Club VD Anthology: Vol. 1 by Brian Kelly (Goodreads Author), Calah Singleton, Lara Sutherland really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Minor Detail

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Brian Kelly is currently reading Minor Detail by Adania Shibli	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Brian Kelly rated a book it was amazing Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
So interesting to develop a materialist theory of psychotherapy. The key point being that Freud's ideas of the family are not 'nature' but rather another construct of a capitalist material reality. Also the stuff about desiring machines and the way l ...more
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Brian Kelly rated a book really liked it Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Enjoyable, not as good as The Spinning Heart. A sneering cincism creeped into some of the stories, possibly a side effect of the baton short story format where ir's hard to give the bad guys depth. ...more
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Brian Kelly rated a book it was amazing The Political Unconscious: Narrative as Socially Symbolic Act by Fredric Jameson	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Always just kicking ass our kid Jameson. Got me thinking hard about narrative and the subconcious.
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Brian Kelly rated a book it was amazing A Psychogeography of Margate (A Psychogeography #2) by Brian Kelly	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Dispatches form the TAZ of joy!
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Brian Kelly wants to read Psychogeography: Disentangling the Modern Conundrum of Psyche and Place by Will Self	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Brian Kelly rated a book really liked it A History of Irish Working-Class Writing by Michael Pierse	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The kind of book that calls for a response. Feels like it's setting the ground. ...more
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Brian Kelly rated a book it was amazing The Deadly Percheron by John Franklin Bardin	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Hilarious. As funny as Pynchon but more sardonic and less stoned. Can't believe it took till now for me to come across it. ...more
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