Skinema
by Chris Nieratko
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Read in September, 2007
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This book is a whole lot of awesome! It's very funny and very fucked up, and I mean that in the nicest way possible. Chris Nieratko is an Asshole At Large for Vice Magazine and this book is a collection of his columns, which are ostensibly reviews of porno movies but they rarely are. More often, either Nieratko riffs on the title of the movie-to-be-reviewed and it reminds of him of some depraved situation he himself was once a part of, or he just completely disregards the fact that he's s...more
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Read in December, 2007
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Assholes and the people who secretly admire them.
So [Author:Chris Nieratko] writes reviews of porno movies by instead sharing stories of how big an asshole he is. And then around page 200 the sordid stories of debauchery turn into the stories leading up to his marriage and becomes strangely sweet stories of him being a dick. I gotta recommend this book. Good stories from the perspective of someone who is not only unafraid of being a jerk, but entirely unapologetic.
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Read in January, 2007
I totally had a nightmare about the author while I was reading this book. Like, he was just a total dick to me for no apparent reason. He seems like the kind of self-styled anti-hipster badass who'd totally call me a "fag" for watching movies that have subtitles, but that being said, some of his drunken, drugged up stories are pretty fucking funny. But that's what I'd expect from Vice magazine, wouldn't you?
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Hilarious, but not for the easily offended - especially those who would be squeamish at the constant mention of anal, lesbian and sex toy fantasies. I wonder how much is exaggerated for effect, but in the end don't really care because his crass tales left me laughing aloud many a time.
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The structure of this book is great. He reviews XXX movies for hustler and for every movie he writes less of a review on the movie and more memories it triggers in his own life. A lot of them tie into his family life... strangley enough. Very crude but, extremely funny.
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Abysmal, self-absorbed, awful 'humor' book from the hipster jackasses at Vice, and sadly typical of their entire just-kidding-but-not-really approach to writing, with its faux-ironic racism and sexism. Awful.
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Read in January, 2007
Chris is quite possibly one of the most clever assfaces well, ever- read this book or perish- and no you can not borrow mine.."it's like the Ktel slow jams rekkid in the 70's.. "no my brotha, you must buy your own"
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drew, sandy, john
The best! I laughed so god damned hard. I've never read anything more funny. Sure, he's a crude, slighty virile and slutty...but when is that NOT funny? It's always funny. Go read this.
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Read in August, 2007
Easily one of the funniest books I've read in years. Not for the easily offended I suppose, but at least someone is still writing funny stuff that is worthy of that warning.
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when i read this, i couldn't put it down. but now i think of it, i didn't really like it. he's a big dick in "real life", and we bought him an expensive ass shot!
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no story in this big book of stories comes remotely close to topping the story nieratko tells in this two-minute clip: http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id...
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Ok, alright, I desperately adore Vice magazine. I will read anything they are connected with in any way, probably forever.
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A lifestlye artist like myself. Only I have a sneaking suspicion that some of the tales in here are not entirely true.
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Read in June, 2008
Living with the rest of the softies out here on the West Coast, it was good to get a little Jersey!
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scandalous, ridiculous, unbelievable. The worst book ive ever read that I couldnt put down.
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Read in August, 2007
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So far, it's lived up to the praise. Pills, porno and p***y.
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