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	Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine 3.60 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: 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) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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 Frost 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
Thomas Bernhard has left no trail of softness or warmth. The writer was a hard man with strict views. Frost is a novel of unrelenting voices of bitterness, despair, stupidity, and disregard for fellow humans and animals. Also, undeniable, inarguable ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Bacacay by Witold Gombrowicz	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 Polish wunderkind, Witold Gombrowicz, slithered onto the European literary scene in the early 1930s and left behind a series of eternal oddball novels that might take a while to read through. The full-length books reportedly pay off in uncountab ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing The Sluts by Dennis Cooper	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
Dennis Coopers phantasmagoria of gory-ass gay atrocities always takes me back to the high-school milieu of the San Gabriel Valley. Those kids were so certain of their superior desirability and physical worth. The Sluts just need some chicks ground in ...more
Aug 26, 2025 08:50PM · 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 The Sluts by Dennis Cooper. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — The Sluts by Dennis Cooper <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Herscht 07769 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
The first thing I noticed about Laszlo Kraznahorkai’s Herscht 07769 is the text comprises four-hundred pages of a single solid sentence which I presumed correctly would be delivered at high volume and concern itself with outsider characters. Operatin ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Self-Conciousness by John Updike	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
Dull deep thought to be excavated from New Yorker alum looking back at his family tree and a life of minor ailments culminating in an open letter to his pair of half-black grandsons. John Updike goes full, ponderous Self-Consciousness and is not shy ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing The Counterfeiters 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
Andre Gide’s keenly observed study of prattling-genius, soul-deficient, 1920s French schoolboys and the older fruits who patronize them, The Counterfeiters is an authentic depiction of true evil masquerading as callow pretenders. The kids are not all ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing The Ravickians by Renee Gladman (November 01,2011) by Renee Gladman	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 second slim volume of Renee Gladman's wholly imaginary series set in a fully fabulous environment stops abruptly where I start to wonder if the author's professional friends form the basis for the chatting, precious crew of The Ravickians. ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin	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
James Baldwin's coming-of-age spiel is an intense experience of intertwined backstories, overlapping secret histories and a climactic and lasting melding with the savior our lord Jesus Christ that makes a boy just want to straighten up off the dusty ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes	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
Julian Barnes must know somebody on the Booker Prize committee. That's my sense at the ending of The Sense of an Ending. ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Spook Street (Slough House, #4) 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
As an excavation and buttressing of his fictional universe's historical grounding, Mick Herron's Spook Street turns the Slough House world upside down. One horse ends this leg as a person entirely different from he who began the sprint. ...more
Jul 22, 2025 12:59PM · 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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