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# Mezzanine Paperback – July 13, 2010

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## Customer Reviews

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    Spoiler Alert: Nothing Happens
  

*by P***D on Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2012*

And while we are at it:Bloom will complete his peripatetic roaming around DublinTristram will be born.And here our unnamed, (Sir Edmond Hillary perhaps?) will complete his lunch and make it to the top of the escalator.And while we are ruining "it" for everybody, Andre's Restaurant table, will at some point be cleared for some other party.To help you regain your breath, I will digress into a few niggling technical issues. I am a total fan of my Kindle. This book rather forces me to speak of its shortcomings. This review should include some specific example of Baker's use of vocabulary. Because Kindles are awkward to page through when relocating passages, this is not going to happen. Yes, you can go through a clunky process of underlining and storing, but the fact is that navigation on a kindle is well - clunky.Usually I do need page numbers and the strange little percent system is sufficient. In this book it would be helpful to have page numbers.  As if to force this issue, my electronic copy had a tendency to not page properly, such that on more than one occasion I went from some page in the text to some random foot note.  - For the record, some fumbling about and I think I always got back to my proper place.Back to the book:Do not come here if you are looking for:plot,character development,spiritual reawakening, orBaker's more famous (infamous) highly literate porn.Not here, not what this is about.This is about a minute, frequently pointless, occasionally droll and always literate musings about nothing, about everything and filling the time the narrator spends away from his office during lunch..Some people will hate that this book was written, never mind published. Hate fill reader, you are likely a normal person and an admired member of your community.The rest of us got to read a fascinating, frustrating, strange, incredibly detailed account of a fastidious, nerdy, average, entirely too complicated, strange non-story about one man's interior life - across part of one particular day.Speaking of footnotes awkward Kindle navigation aside, don't skip them. I had planned to point out that the book contains nothing but foot note 1- feet notes 1<?>; however I think there are precisely two footnotes two.  So much of the book is precise, that I cannot think this is by accident.  But I digress - this book tends to make you think in digressions.Oh, right the footnotes. Read them. They are more of the same useless, well written trivia of the text and part of what you paid to be on this literary ride.If you have read the reviews, and believe you are not in need of any action, I recommend that you read this book. And read it in short burst. Perhaps during your lunch break.

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    In Search Of Lost Marbles!
  

*by B***T on Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2000*

The narrator of this novel is nuts.... but don't let that stop you from reading this wonderful book! Just be aware it might take you a little while to get comfortable with the quirky way the protatgonist has of thinking  about things. After the first ten pages I was laughing out loud but after  thirty pages I almost put it down because I didn't know if I could keep  handling 2 page footnotes on, say, the physics of what makes shoelaces  break! But I stayed with the book and I was glad I did. It is a pleasure to  keep up with the narrator as his mind meanders through the minutiae of  everyday life. He has a childlike curiosity about the world. Everything  fascinates him! He is a lucky man because he enjoys understanding the  little things in life and life presents a neverending supply of little  things to think about. This is a guy who will never be bored! I also get  the feeling that this is the way the mind of a really good scientist works,  analytical but childlike as well. Want to know if you will like this book?  Here is one sentence, expressing the narrator's admiration for the way the  old-style packages of Jiffy Pop popcorn were engineered: "Jiffy Pop  was the finest example of the whole aluminous genre: a package inspired by  the fry pan whose handle is also the hook it hangs from in the store, with  a maelstrom of swirled foil on the top that, subjected to the subversion of  the exploding kernels, first by the direct collisions of discrete corns and  then in a general indirect uplift of the total volume of potentiated  cellulose, gradually unfurls its dome, turning slowly as it despirals  itself, providing in its gradual expansion a graspable, slow-motion version  of what each erumpent particle of corn is undergoing invisibly and  instantaneously beneath it." Whoooh! I can see where this book would  be the type of thing you either love or hate, so if the above sentence made  you squirm, stay away. But if a smile emerged while you read it I think you  will enjoy "The Mezzanine" as much as I did.

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    An ode to the active mind
  

*by S***Y on Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2013*

Penn Jillette recommended this book, and I'm glad he did.  The Mezzanine is an ode to the active mind.  The book essentially has no plot--the sum total of the action involves buying a new pair of shoelaces during a lunch break--and I suspect many people wouldn't like this book.  But for me it was interesting to read what the main character (really just the author, I suspect) thinks about the little details in his life.  Many of his thoughts demonstrate a healthy curiosity about the world and the little technological advances made in our advanced society--things like plastic vs. paper straws, the mechanics of escalators and the proper way to fill a napkin dispenser.Baker also has a wonderful way of writing about seemingly mundane subjects that makes them come alive, such as his description of popcorn popping:  "I felt somewhat like an exploding popcorn myself:  a dried bicuspid of American grain dropped into a lucid gold liquid pressed from less fortunate brother kernels, subjected to heat, and suddenly allowed to flourish outward in an instantaneous detonation of weightless reversal; an asteroid of Styrofoam, much larger but seemingly of less mass than before, composed of exfoliations that in bursting beyond their outer carapace were nonetheless guided into paisleys and baobabs and related white Fibonaccia by its disappearing, back-arching browned petals (which later found their way into the space between molars and gums), shapes which seemed quite Brazilian and intemperate for so North American a seed, and which seemed, despite the abrupt assumption of their final state, the convulsive, launching "pop," slowly arrived at, like risen dough or cave mushrooms."

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