Perennials - Digitalis purpurea
Foxglove is a biennial which will self seed in the summer, and thus functions like a perennial. All parts of Foxglove are poisonous, containing a heart stimulant, Digitalis, extracted commercially to use in medicines. Digitalis purpurea seed sown ... [... more]
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Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys (Self, Will)
 Amazon.com Review: Will Self's tabloid-friendly reputation as a connoisseur of proscribed substances should not obscure the fact that he can write many of his contemporaries under the table. His latest collection, Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys, [... more]
$12.00
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The Quantity Theory of Insanity
Will Self grew up in London, where he lives with his wife and two children. What if there is only a limited amount of sanity in the world and the real reason people go mad is because somebody has to? What if a mysterious tribe in the Amazon ... [... more]
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How the Dead Live
Amazon.com Review: In April 1988, 65-year-old Lily Bloom quickly succumbs to cancer in the Royal Ear Hospital. ("Where do they keep the Royal Ear, I wonder? I think of it as very large--as big as a dinner tray--and very red, angrily red.") But [... more]
$24.00
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My Idea of Fun: A Novel
Will Self is great. Period.: I will be honest: My Idea of Fun is an excellent book albeit confusing. The story of Ian Wharton, a taciturn eidetic, sometimes blurs the fine line of reality and the subconscious. Will Self fuses together elements of [... more]
$14.00
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How the Dead Live
Amazon.com Review: In April 1988, 65-year-old Lily Bloom quickly succumbs to cancer in the Royal Ear Hospital. ("Where do they keep the Royal Ear, I wonder? I think of it as very large--as big as a dinner tray--and very red, angrily red.") But [... more]
$13.00
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Cock and Bull
It was remaindered for good reason: In this book, Will Self explores gender. Unfortunately, he doesn't really commit. In the first book, a bored suburban woman develops a penis. She doesn't develop a true, honest to God, do-I-dress-left-or-right one, [... more]
$13.00
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Conjunctions: 48, Faces of Desire (No. 48)
Author: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Author: Mary Caponegro Author: Carole Maso Author: Brian Evenson Author: Robert Olen Butler Author: Mary Gaitskill Author: Donald Revell Author: H.G. Carrillo Author: Joyce Carol Oates Author: Will Self Binding: Paperback [... more]
$15.00
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The Sweet Smell of Psychosis: A Novella (Self, Will)
Amazon.com Review: The Sweet Smell of Psychosis (very loosely based on Alexander Mackendrick's searing '50s movie Sweet Smell of Success) is the kind of mordant fable that Will Self could toss off in his sleep. But although it doesn't stretch Self's [... more]
$11.00
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Great Apes (Self, Will)
Just a waste of time: Great Apes was a waste of time to read. The author was obviously trying to comment on modern society through a "Planet Of The Apes" type gimmick, but the payoff isn't worth the effort. The author really doesn't have much [... more]
$13.00
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Grey Area (Self, Will)
Amazon.com Review: The latest collection of short stories by Will Self explores a world so saturated with sensory stimulation its inhabitants are immune to it. In the minds of his characters, vastly complicated interior worlds and conspiracies are formed [... more]
$14.00
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Dorian
Many people just don't like this sort of stuff...: ...but I'd rather be one of the few who finds pleasure in Self's perversity than one of the many who see only perveristy in such pleasures (as those of the wanton that is Self's Henry Wotton). Perhaps [... more]
$12.00
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