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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 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) 4.67 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 Black Boy by Richard Wright, Edward P. Jones by Richard Wright	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
In Black boy, the future Native Son Richard Wright steps out of his personal chronology to wrestle with his unexpurgated plagued real-life deformative years as a young black man-to-be, first in the dirt-poor American south graduating to the bleak chi ...more
Jan 13, 2026 06:02PM · 1 like · like · see review
Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Yes by Thomas Bernhard	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
If concrete Austrian nihilist Thomas Bernhard were to veer into romance literature, a fast, furious and unconsummated romance between a mixed-gender pair of aging malcontents, would the unrelenting plot conclude in at least one suicide? The answer ca ...more
Jan 08, 2026 02:05PM · 3 likes · like · see review
Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing London Rules (Slough House, #5) by Mick Herron	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 MI-5 slow brigade is as ununified and backstabbed as ever playing by London Rules. Mick Herron’s recurring heroes and guest villains’ motives and actions and reactions create smashing results beyond their plans and outside the pale. I might have ...more
Dec 27, 2025 06:53PM · 1 like · like · see review
Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy	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
For round two of Cormac McCarthy’s violent and tender travel series identified as The Border Trilogy, the harrowing, hallowed, horrifying scribe of the poetry of cruelty only comes off as a blowhard due to the preponderance of his crude characters po ...more
Dec 17, 2025 08:03PM · 3 likes · like · see review
Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith December (Textbook ONLY, Hardcover) by Peter Godfrey-Smith	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
Octopuses have blown me away for quite some time. I guess I understand Peter Godfrey-Smith’s obsessive interest in the animals. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness is a little ramshackle and a little detail-orient ...more
Dec 09, 2025 07:54PM · 1 like · like · see review
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
Nov 30, 2025 03:25PM · like · see review
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
Nov 25, 2025 10:09AM · 1 like · like · see review
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
Nov 22, 2025 05:59PM · 1 like · like · see review
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
Nov 20, 2025 12:20PM · like · see review
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
Nov 19, 2025 11:11AM · 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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