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Jeff R gave 4 of 5 stars to:
A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley
A Fan's Notes
by Frederick Exley
read in February, 2012
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Now that's a miserable author/narrator - for sheer world-weary bitterness this is right up there with Céline.

And I didn't know it when I started the book but a nice hunk of it involved the assorted butcheries of mid-century psychiatric institutions...more
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"We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time."T. S. Eliot
Jeff R gave 2 of 5 stars to:
The Prehistory of Sex by Timothy Taylor
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Consistently uninteresting. I don't know what the hell happened here. I had high hopes for this book.

I didn't like its font. Maybe that was part of the problem.
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"Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull."H.L. Mencken
Jeff R gave 3 of 5 stars to:
An Empire of Their Own by Neal Gabler
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A substantial hunk of this book involved the whole HUAC/witch-hunt/Commie story, which I wasn't really expecting (I would categorize that as after the "invention" of Hollywood).

I would have liked more specifics about specific movies and directors, ...more
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"We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them."Evelyn Waugh
Jeff R gave 4 of 5 stars to:
Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard
Super-Cannes
by J.G. Ballard
read in November, 2011
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I must be reading too much lightly-structured, experimental stuff lately - as I was a ways into the book I was a bit uncomfortable with how conventional it felt - plot humming along, suspicious people making ominous statements, amateur gumshoe scramb...more
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Jeff R gave 4 of 5 stars to:
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Hunger
by Knut Hamsun
read in November, 2011
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A good balance between bitterness and humor, and more sex than I was expecting for a novel written in 1890 - those Norwegians were way ahead, I guess.

The ending is not very interesting or satisfying but this book, much like life, is about the jour...more
More of Jeff's books…
Horace
“They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea. ”
Horace

Louis-Ferdinand Céline
“there are certain advantages in being cursed by all and sundry ... especially, it dispenses you with having to be nice to anybody ... there's nothing more emollient, stultifying, emasculating than wanting to be liked ... "not nice!" ... that does it, you're free! ...”
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North

Djuna Barnes
“I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished”
Djuna Barnes

Stephen Hawking
“People who boast about their IQ are losers”
Stephen Hawking

H.L. Mencken
“On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.”
H.L. Mencken


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