Like burrowing your fingertips into an orange rind!
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If I had to pick a book that Fastrup's Beloved of My 27 Senses most resembles, I would say, without a doubt, Michael Ondaatje's&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/The-English-Patient/dp/0679745203/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">The English Patient</a>. Both are set largely in Africa. Both involve love triangles. Both are told in snippets that gradually reveal the histories of the books' main characters. Both contain powerful mysteries. Both have profoundly non-linear narratives. And both explore their characters in surprising depth.

That said, however, Fastrup has written a book that is very much its own thing. Fastrup's style is unique--more reminiscent of&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Helene-Cixous/dp/0415049296/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Helene Cixous</a>&nbsp;than Ondaatje. Reading her book is like burrowing your fingertips into the rind of an orange. The physicality of the experience is almost overwhelming. Fastrup uses Kurt Schwitter's Dadaist, non-sensical 1919 German love poem&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/An-Anne-Blume-To-Anna-Blossom/dp/B000U2DL8G/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">"An Anne Blume [To Anna Blossom]"</a>&nbsp;as a recurrent theme. Schwitter's poem of boundless, unconstrained, verging-on-crazy, sensual love is a perfect fit for this Danish novel.

A young Danish man named Tore goes to Egypt, trying to find his parents who have disappeared. Turns out his parents (an archeologist and a doctor) had spent a great deal of time in the Libyan dessert when they were younger. Now Tore is trying to piece together snippets he remembers hearing with things his parents had written in diaries and notebooks to figure out where they are.

Fastrup describes the desert as if it were the body of a lover, dwelling on topographical details with an erotic languor. Gradually through the book she sifts through the sands of the desert and of time, moving past formations of low outcroppings, through reddish-yellow clouds of dust with the crushing weight of the oppressive heat to the milky white salt crust on that forms a skin over the desert surface. As an archeologist digs through the layers of the Earth, this book digs through the layers of what makes a person who they are. Fastrup gets under your skin, creating a mystery that is sensual and exciting, occasionally repulsive, but always intriguing, a wild sensory experience, pungent, fulsome. A little like burrowing your fingertips into the rind of an orange. I highly recommend it. It's quite a reading experience.
4955534
I just got these and wheeeew they smell AWFUL! I don't know where they came up with "citrus scent" because it's more like burnt macaroni fart. After I bought them on sale for $11+ I went to Ace hardware to get some electrical tape to fix already nibbled cords and found the same product for $5.99... well, it's not the same since it's black or white and hard plastic instead of clear tube, but it serves the same purpose, won't get bitten through, and doesn't smell like grossness. I have kept one roll (of four) to try but I will return the rest. I feel woozy.
485405
These earplugs are the pits. No matter how tightly you roll the cylinder or how quickly you stick it in your ear, as soon as you pull your finger away, it oozes out of your ear again. Ridiculous! Provides little to no reduction in noise level. Exceedingly disappointed!
4576979
I was hoping this would taste similar to the "Citrus Blend", basically an orangey flavor.  No.  it's yellow and more like a lemon-orange blend.  Blech.  I'm considering just dumping the whole box, it's that bad.
1980076
Yeah.. See that black thumb grippy bit there on the left edge of this little wonder? Well, that thing is glued on not with any kind of commercial bonding adhehsive, but with something.. else.

How do I know? Because that grippy black bit is rubber and squishy and behind it, turns out, is a layer of a thick, wet tar that barely adheres to the mouse. It took me months to realize that the gummy black resinous gunk on my thumb was actually seeping out from the base of this black rubber pad and it's just an oily tar. It's kind of revolting.

I've had it way too long to send back, and I'd be too embarrassed to sell it on ebay so I'm just gonna' Purell my hands again and come whine about it here.

Thanks
807765
I tried this with great expectations only to almost gag when the first forkfull of angel hair spaghetti and this dried tomato sauce hit my mouth.  It was truly discusting!  I threw out all the remaining packages because I wasn't going to ruin any more noodles with this crap.  Goodness, just thinking about how it tasted makes me feel like heaving!  I can't even explain why it was so terrible but, to me, it was.  The other reviewer liked it but...it's up to you to try it and decide for yourself.  Good Luck!!
2646313
Oh my God, if I can just get past the TASTE. That is the absolute worst thing about it. No matter what I blend it with, it smells like citrus vomit. It works.. if you can stand drinking it everyday. But that is just my opinion. Grows nails fast! So that is a plus.
2969122
Sometimes companies put out a product with good intentions.
I'm sure this was the case here but sadly...the companies taste testers must have consisted of squirrels and other assorted furry creatures that will eat just about anything.
I can't imagine any human consuming this with a smile on their face.
Our troops may be able to use them in place of waterboarding during war but other than that? No....just no.
If you love pumpkin pie as I do then you'll love these......um.....oh no you won't.
A revolting insult, not just to one's taste buds but to the Universe as a whole.
Sweet, salty, more horrifying than an army of hockey masked serial killers.
Steer clear; chewing on thumb tacks would be more pleasant.
Recommended?
NO. AVOID!!!
2509161
Horrible!  Awful!  Yucky!  Nasty!  This is what you get when fresh fruit is tortured to death, dried in a hot oven (not the sun), then marched over by 1000 soldiers in muddy army boots.  These Kind Pressed Bars were so disgusting that I asked for, and got, a refund.  (Thank you, Amazon!)  Kind has some truly great nut and dark chocolate flavors, but the Pressed Kind Bars are not among their best, they are not even among acceptable flavors.  Yuck!
4085900
This game was so fun to play with my 3, 3, and 5 year old sons as well as with my husband, but oh my goodness - those "bad" flavors are even worse than you can imagine! We all played with the trash can right in front of us incase we got a bad one. The taste of dog food and vomit lingers long after you've spit it out. I think we're all so traumatized 6 months later that we won't try jelly bellies without a flavor chart ever again!
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I wanted to love this pencil. I really did. I purchased this pencil solely for the purpose of drawing straight lines. I have a fetish of sorts for straight lines. But with each line I set down, I could not manage a perfect straight line with this pencil, and believe me that I gave it the ole jr college try! Irrespective of how much alcohol I consumed to steady my aging, arthritic hand, my shaking persisted and my line continued to drift off of its intended course. Perhaps I just could not get over the fact that each line I set down was costing me in the neighborhood of 8 dollars? I don't know. But if I see Jesus in the afterlife, I plan to ask him. Whatever the reason, in the end, the pressure was just too much. I began to go mad. My days and nights had become consumed with my feeble attempts to scrawl the perfect line. My once placid dreams were replaced with nightmarish, giggling newborn infants that crawled around my prone body, drawing prefect rectangles. I couldn't move my body, but my eyes could move, and they pleaded with the babies, "Please stop. Please stop showing off!" But it never helped. No matter how loudly my eyes screamed at them to drop their finely crafted pencils, they only cooed at me, and then continued to trek their way around my catatonic body. Then, once they completed their perfect rectangle, they would laugh at me, toothlessly, as they consumed their pencil whole! Oh, the madness! So, sadly, to keep whatever sanity that remained, I returned this Devil's instrument for a pack of pencils purchased from the local Dollar Store. And while my lines still remain imperfect, the babies that once plagued my dreams have crawled off and left my neighbor's wife again in their wake. Life is again good. I hope that this review helps you in your decision-making process.
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I found the best pickles ever they are by Jimmy Johns, however because the Jimmy Johns founder Jimmy Liautaud is a Rhino and Elephant murderer I felt the need to #boycottJimmyJohns and never support his business again.
I have been on the hunt for a pickle as good, and have yet to find it, BUT this brand McClures has got to be one of the most disturbing of all so far, it taste like cucumbers "no not pickled" just soft cucumbers in vinegar and the wretched taste it left in my mouth even thinking about it right now makes me want to puke.
Save your money this stuff is gross.
1696861
Most disgusting tasting stuff in the entire world, I  tried so hard to take this but I couldn't get it down. Yuck!
2840697
"Life of Pi" starts pleasantly, though is confusing.  It has the potential of being something quite thought provoking.  But, the thing quickly degrades into a hellish experience that will leave scarred memories, images that may well remain with the viewer for some time to come.

The mindless, idiotic fool that is the central character fumbles his way onto a life boat while intentionally wandering around on the deck of a ship that is struggling to stay afloat in typhoon conditions.  There are zoo animals confined on this ship, which are depicted as drowning below deck while the ship is slowly doing down.  People and animals suffer miserably, and you get to see it!

While everyone in your living room is begging you to please stop this miserable agony of a "movie"; you hold on hoping this garbage will improve eventually.  Then you get to see a hyena attack, and mutilate a zebra while the coward is standing in the lifeboat with a ten foot oar in his hands, just looking at the butchery with flies buzzing in & out of his cavernous pie-hole!

I slammed the stop button on the remote, and found myself desperately wishing I could grab that oar and do to the fool what he should have done to the hyena!

If you have children, or adults with sensitive demeanors in your family, be sure to avoid this ravishing torture at all costs!!
3387894
Blech! Monkeys with more time than common sense designed this! The rendering is ugly as sin, the logic feels like Alice in Wonderland. Try and build a set of stacked stairs. Go ahead, I dare you!
475715
This product has an appalling taste.  It has the texture of cardboard  and is otherwise bland and vile.
I think if there is no added sugar,  the freeze dried form of this fruit is not so appealing.  It's as though all the flavor of the papaya was removed during the drying process.

Your first feeling when you put it in your mouth is an overwhelming desire to spit it out.  It's as dry as a potato chip,  but gathers some moisture in your mouth, whereupon the taste hits you,  dirty sock.  Yes it's like stuffing a sock in your mouth.

As an experiment I dropped several chips into my dogs bowl.  She wagged her tail eagerly at first, presuming she was getting a treat.  One sniff however disabused her of that notion and she turned away disgusted.  Yup it's that bad,  my dog wouldn't eat it!

You get all this for $16?  No thanks.
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If you're looking for a keyboard that doesn't quite line up with where your fingers expect the keys to be, like if you don't mind typing an apostrophe when you really mean to hit return, or if you don't mind a few keys sticking or better yet popping out entirely even though the keyboard is brand new, or if you don't mind your keyboard switching into alpha-numeric mode where typing anything in the jkl zone 1ust sw8tches rand9055y I HATE THIS KEYBOARD!!  Seriously.  I won't even try to return, sell, or give this one away.  When my new Logitech Solar arrives tomorrow (why didn't I just fork up the $49 in the first place, WHY??) I will simply throw the GMYLE Ultra as far into the air as possible, laugh as it crashes back to the earth, then perform an Office Space-esque mutilation of any of its remaining pieces.  You think I jest, but I do not.  You, too, will hate this keyboard, and anyone else saying anything different on here is either paid to do so or some kind of crazed lunatic.  Honestly, I can't say enough about how awful this product rea55y is.  Eff!!