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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 The Besieged City 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
Clarice Lispector layers her slight complex novel, hardly 200 pages, The Besieged City with enough levels of wily and wiry speculative language and transitory personality observations to populate a Robbe-Grillet cluster narrative. People slide into t ...more
Aug 19, 2026 02:05PM · like · see review
Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing White Trash by John King	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
It’s impossible to overstate the distaste unleashed in my delicate sensibilities by John King’s brutal, cloying, class-warring White Trash. The locale is hard-man Britain. Immaculate, over-burdened and selfless modern maidens service and apologize fo ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing War & War (Apocalypse Quartet, #3) by László Krasznahorkai	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
This slight, for him, novel by prolix Hungarian provocateur László Krasznahorkai reverts to his stylistic overkill of cascading paragraphs and shifting narrations and interchanging reality sectors, a mélange that is so ripe for mockery that Krasznaho ...more
Jul 30, 2026 06:19PM · 2 likes · like · see review
Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Stand Still Like the Hummingbird by Henry Miller	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
There was a time when I was afraid to be caught reading a book by Henry Miller. I grew up in a strict, Catholic Puritanical milieu. I didn’t want to be derided as a jerkoff. If only a copy of Stand Still Like the Hummingbird had fluttered into my sha ...more
Jul 23, 2026 02:02PM · 1 like · like · see review
Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Zeroville by Steve Erickson	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
Steve Erickson is one of those writers whose parade of flawless paragraphs and pitch-perfect verbal exchanges places improbable but predestined characters in circumstances that are otherworldly and also seeming predestined, meanwhile keeping all evid ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing My Antonia (Willa Cather Prairie Trilogy #3) by Willa Cather	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
Willa Cather was a bold one for artifice. My Ántonia is a book purportedly written by a woman author who has agreed with a male lawyer compatriot to write down everything meaningful she remembers of a female acquaintance of them both. A few months la ...more
Jul 11, 2026 10:15PM · 1 like · like · see review
Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Hiroshima by John Hersey	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
On August 31, 1946, John Hersey’s Hiroshima was famously published in its entirety in the New Yorker magazine, hardly one year after the shocking cruel dawn of atomic warfare. This edition of Hersey’s iconic journalistic scoop has a much later copyri ...more
Jul 07, 2026 05:42PM · like · see review
Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East by László Krasznahorkai	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
This new release from the Hungarian Nobel lord of the book-long sentence was composed a couple of decades back and features primary building blocks of short assertions and convoluted musings that alternate between simplicity and baffling complexity. ...more
Jul 04, 2026 02:53PM · 2 likes · like · see review
Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing The Metamorphoses of Ovid by Ovid	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 poet Ovid was the showrunner of his day. The recurring characters and intertwining narratives of his Metamorphoses collection highlight the magical vengeance of the gods of his time as they rape and punish mere mortals through roughly 600+ pages ...more
Jul 02, 2026 10:13PM · 3 likes · like · see review
Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon	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 purpose, aim, intent, overwhelming victory of Thomas Pynchon’s 1,085-page Against the Day is to give the author ample opportunity to show off. The sexy passages are twisted, pervy, harsh and hardcore open wounds of gravely smirking sentiment. Cha ...more
Jun 24, 2026 09:56PM · 1 like · like · see review

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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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