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Allan’s 2025 Year in Books
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| Back when I was a grownup kid around the age of twenty-one, and an avid reader, I went on a Raymond Chandler streak. His vintage novels were like two for a buck and filled with a contingent of colorful wisecracking, grasping, tragic characters and th ...more | |
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| Christopher Isherwood’s behind-the-scenes autobiographical exposé of a serious writer taking a bemused look at his role in the superficial film industry, Prater Violet, appeared in 1945 and is set a decade earlier, just as Adolf Hitler takes the worl ...more | |
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| The tubby 59-year-old protagonist of John Hawkes’s Second Skin arose from a family that does its best to dismantle his emotional well-being and willingness to live on. Separate suicides of the Captain’s both parents and only daughter situate the hero ...more | |
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| The Three-Body Problem was a standout book from the little mooch library erected down the street, a singular title and jacket design even in the company of the other two volumes of Cixin Liu’s end of humanity trilogy and maybe three stand-alone tomes ...more | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
“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.”
― Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine
― Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine
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Aug 03, 2011 02:48PM
Envy. Boy, I can relate.
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