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Original Title:	The Instructions
ISBN:	1934781827 (ISBN13: 9781934781821)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award (2011)

The Instructions

Adam Levin

Hardcover | Pages: 1030 pages

Rating: 4.06 | 2363 Users | 418 Reviews

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Title	:	The Instructions
Author	:	Adam Levin
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1030 pages
Published	:	November 1st 2010 by McSweeney's
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. Jewish. Novels. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. American

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Beginning with a chance encounter with the beautiful Eliza June Watermark and ending, four days and 900 pages later, with the Events of November 17, this is the story of Gurion Maccabee, age ten: a lover, a fighter, a scholar, and a truly spectacular talker. Expelled from three Jewish day-schools for acts of violence and messianic tendencies, Gurion ends up in the Cage, a special lockdown program for the most hopeless cases of Aptakisic Junior High. Separated from his scholarly followers, Gurion becomes a leader of a very different sort, with righteous aims building to a revolution of troubling intensity.

The Instructions is an absolutely singular work of fiction by an important new talent. Combining the crackling voice of Philip Roth with the encyclopedic mind of David Foster Wallace, Adam Levin has shaped a world driven equally by moral fervor and slapstick comedy—a novel that is muscular and exuberant, troubling and empathetic, monumental, breakneck, romantic, and unforgettable.

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(pictured above: Che Guevara, analogue of Gurion Maccabee, antihero of The Instructions)Gurion ben-Judah Maccabee is an incredibly verbose and intellectually gifted ten-year old potential messiah. He aspires to write capital-S Scripture on par with the Torah he so dearly loves. This large book is his Scripture, the Book of Gurion, his Instructions.This is a metafictional delight. In the fashion of Lolita, The Instructions begins with the disclaimer that in reading this book, the reader is taking

Let me be succinct (a quality which totally escapes Adam Levin): this is not a great book. Those reviewers who are writing "I'm 2 chapters in and it's amazing!" should heed warning - it dazzles in the beginning and fades out like a muffled fart. I damn my own literary hubris for blindly believing that The Instructions would ultimately reveal itself as the messiah of contemporary fiction. Instead, I am embarrassed to admit that I have spent nearly two months pushing through this constipated,

I flew to Chicago. I actually flew to Chicago a couple days ago on the 27th of October for a single night, just to hear Adam Levin read from the last-- though, admittedly, incredibly recent-- book I truly loved (TLBI[t]L), TheRumpus.nets own Book Club pick, The Instructions (supplanting Rick Moodys The Four Fingers of Death, of which I still feel somewhat compelled and obliged to write something at a later time, at the 11th hour as my pick for TLBI[t]L).At the time of Levins Chicago reading, I

If this book is 1030 pages, which it very much is, then it should be worth the journey, but if it isnt then its because the main character is wholly unlikable, but if Gurion is unlikable then his actions should make sense, but if they do make sense the novel would be worth the time, but if they dont make sense then it isnt. If Levin had any sense of self-editing his prose wouldnt be ponderous for pages on end as Gurion goes down endless spirals into his own head, which are meant to be taken as

I know this much is true.Or I think this. Suspect this. Realize this.I know that this is the childhood of Infinite Jest before it was exposed to its titular component. I know that nothing is sacred, least of all childhood, which suffers on its sanctified pedestal. I know ideology and theology and coprology and the razors they stretch tight around the skin. I know how the blades slip into the throat in childhood, and how the ability to spit them at another screams itself out in adulthood. I know

I can't review this book objectively. Not only am I a subjective writer to the core, but The Instructions also hits too close to home for me. It's about a boy, Gurion ben Judah Maccabee. He's in a special program at his current school, Aptakisic Jr. High. He's extremely violent and, along with all the other kids (ranging in age, mostly, from 10-13), is fantastically intelligent. Aptakisic is one of several real-life schools mentioned in the book which I or friends of mine attended. Levin, from

Before anyone starts cooking up the tar and feathers, let me just begin by saying I was probably doomed from the beginning knowing I was stepping into McSweeney-land here. I'm not going to spend time in my review defending my stance on that, other than I have preconceived notions about a lot of things that have relations with McSweeney-land - most apt to this review would be the word "clever". I would say since the early aughts there has been this whole "I'm-cleverer-than-you" movement in