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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 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 · 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
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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
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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
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing The Passion According to G.H. 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 is a heavily heralded writer born in Ukraine and brought to artistic fruition in northern Brazil. In The Passion According to G.H., this precise, observant, highly intuitive and communicative author paints a world view as it is intr ...more
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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
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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
Apr 25, 2026 06:24PM · 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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