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	Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine 3.59 avg rating — 142 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: True Tales of Death Trip Kids, Wrongful Sex, and Trial by Angel Dust 3.86 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	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) 4.67 avg rating — 3 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 Book of Goose by Yiyun Li	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
Odd French hick girls cohere in a singular, outsiders meld as reported by reputable fiction professor Yijun Li. The Book of Goose’s primary dramatic action ends by age fifteen and is retold by the surviving wild child as a middle age ex-pat owning a ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka	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
Julie Otsuka is an acclaimed novelist I had never read. Halfway through her novel The Swimmers, I was stumped. What will a writer of such high renown do to enliven this tale of recreational swimmers whose subterranean lap pool develops inexplicable c ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Sex and Rage by Eve Babitz	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
As a young, self-congratulatory snob I read and dismissed all praise of Eve Babitz’s collection of nonfiction profiles, Slow Days; Fast Company, as misguided appreciation for a craft that was purely circumstantial and required no talent. Much later, ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan	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 saw a movie made of Claire Keegan’s book Small Things Like These prior to tackling this volume. The top gun from Peaky Blinders played the lead role in a dour, plodding production that I switched off before the picture ended. The novel throttles al ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Satantango 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
All of the characters in László Krasznahorkai’s rollicking, bumptious, sad and scary Satantango are faulted beyond redemption. None affords support or respect to any of the others aside from the universal faltering faith extended to a bitterly suave ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing My Mother / Madame Edwarda / The Dead Man by Georges Bataille	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
As an author, Georges Bataille is a tricky motherfucker. This fit, slim volume collects a clutch of the slimy writer’s shame-based themes and excessively erotic obsessions. My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man pay proud homage to incest, degradati ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter	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
Hard Rain Falling is beat, beater, beatest writer Don Carpenter’s version of one of those Outsider books with a difference being that every primary voice is a greaser, socs have no agency, and the tribal alignment is not worth mentioning. By the time ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing The New York Stories of Henry James by Henry James	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 voluminous vocabulary and impeccable word choice of Henry James is any good literature professor’s recurring course load. The New York Stories’ characters and clinches–from a skeevy wife hunter prowling Washington Square to an apologetic defraude ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Mainlines, Blood Feasts and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader by Lester Bangs (2003-09-18) by Lester Bangs	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
Edited by John Morthland, a rock critic or let’s say a cultural historian of Laster Bangs’s time and ilk, Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste collects a mess of Bangs’s refined rumblings and rabid raunch and leaves the polish and the slops for the ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Alphaville 1988: Crime, Punishment and the Battle for New York City's Lower East Side by Michael Codella	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
“New York, 1988: Welcome to Heroin City” is blazoned across the cover of this nonfiction expose and historical background paper on dope in the big town written with vigor and a sense of undisputed superiority by a former cop entrusted to battle drugs ...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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