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	Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine 3.59 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 2006 — 8 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
	Punk Elegies 3.84 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2015 — 3 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
	Now That I Am Gone: A Memoir Beyond Recall 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	The Scary Parts by Allan MacDonell (Goodreads Author), Richard Modiano (Editor), Joe Donnelly (Foreword) 4.75 avg rating — 4 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
	North-West Transportation: Navigation, and Railway Company, Its Objects 0.00 avg rating — 0 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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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Local Anaesthetic by Günter Grass	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
Gunter Grass is the master to the verge of masturbator of the slow reveal in his glacial exposure of a post-WW II secondary teacher’s formative past and historical awareness in relationship to a current student who yearns to set his long-haired wiene ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata	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 Rainbow makes the most of Japan’s standing topics for literary greatness. Multiple suicides, instigating and losing a world war, blossoming fruit trees, hazardous communication between genders and generations, a warrior past and a pacified presen ...more
May 06, 2026 02:13PM · 3 likes · like · see review · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing The Last Days of Louisiana Red by Ishmael Reed	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
Dialogue, expository passages, I never know what Ishmael Reed is talking about. In The Last Days of Louisiana Red, from 1974, no character or locale appears under the titular designation. The Red is some sort of hoodoo curse lain upon the straight wo ...more
Apr 28, 2026 10:13PM · 1 like · like · see review
Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (2009-12-31) by Bernard Malamud	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
A novel about a fixer to my mind emerges from complications and extrications of some magic public-relations maestro who wields the general world’s perceptions with the savage grace of a professional dissembler. In Bernard Malamud’s book, The Fixer is ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac	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
By the time he arrived at his Lonesome Traveler stage, Jack Kerouac had shot his earthshattering wad and could relax, after one chapter of neologism-laden hyper prose, into an expert writer with considered opinions and advance-guard deep beliefs who ...more
Apr 18, 2026 09:40PM · 1 like · like · see review
Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch	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
I only bought A Severed Head because I was in a vintage bookstore in Tokyo and mistook Iris Murdoch for Muriel Spark. I thought maybe a chopped-off head will be a primary character. The book has no shortage of casual infidelity and sporting perversio ...more
Apr 14, 2026 09:15PM · 1 like · like · see review · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector	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
I’ve been informed by a random uncommunicated fragment that An Apprenticeship in the Book of Pleasures is unlike any other Clarice Lispector book. The novel is a love story, intricate and unabashed and fully. A total of two characters (and a fleeting ...more
Apr 09, 2026 07:39PM · 2 likes · like · see review · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society by Herbert Marcuse	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
Published in the 1960s, Herbert Marcuse’s “bitter cry of social protest” sold more than 300,000 copies. After grabbing a reprint of this era-defying and epoch-defining book from a local little free library and starting the “critique of modern industr ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing The Immoralist - Gide (Andre Gide Collection) by André Gide	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 self-involved, selfish, self-centered object of the narrator’s fascination in Andre´ Gide’s The Immoralist is Michel, a big gesture loving new husband of 24 years sparing not personal fortune nor individual health to propping up his lovely, delic ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima	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
I went to Japan immediately after reading Yukio Mishima’s Spring Snow determined to locate further volumes of this four-novel series, Mishima’s last literary output before slicing out his colon, and came home with Life for Sale. The primary character ...more
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“To peruse Larry Flynt's flagship is to encounter laughable facets of necrophilia, dildo-strapped nuns, ambulatory turds, walking anuses, the perceived discrepancy in penis size between black and white males, vaginas large enough to envelop an entire man, physical intimacies with anthropomorphic pets, lesbian love rituals, the ills and quirks of male homosexuality, the corrosive effect of vaginal discharge upon automobile upholstery, the danger that freshly licked African-american lips will accidentally adhere to some glasslike surface, bar sluts, gang-bangs, wastebasket fetuses, flatulence anal and vaginal, the handicapped, Ku Klux Klansmen, lynching, anal sex, prison romance, naked females whose faces are covered by paper bags, sex crimes of the rich and famous, sex in full-body traction, retards as playthings, practical jokes committed by Saint Peter, suicide, consanguinity, animal husbandry in the connubial sense, erectile dysfunction, voyeurs, panty-sniffewrs, menstruation, STDs and philosopher houseflies delivering piquant sophistries while nibbling on corn-studded nuggets of shit.”
― Allan MacDonell, Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine

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