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November 18
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Paul
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by Tom Wolfe
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read in November, 2007
Paul said:
"This book was a huge disappointment. It's hard to believe that a book that included so many interesting people, Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsbergh and Neal Cassady just to name a few, could be so tedious and uninteresting. Wolfe's descriptions are clunky a...more
This book was a huge disappointment. It's hard to believe that a book that included so many interesting people, Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsbergh and Neal Cassady just to name a few, could be so tedious and uninteresting. Wolfe's descriptions are clunky and monotonous. This is a guy who is about as square and straight as they come attempting to describe to his readers what it was like for Kesey and the merry pranksters to be high on acid and most of it reads like a hollow impersonation of Jack Kerouac. The poems at the beginning of some of the chapters are particularly nauseating. The book lacks substance as well. The further I got into it the more I began to feel that I was not getting the whole story but rather a romanticized version of what the hippie acid culture was really like. I'm not sure if Tom Wolfe set out to write an objective journalistic piece covering a time and a place in American history or to write an interesting and exciting non-fiction novel, but he failed on both ends....less
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November 06
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Paul
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Lullaby (Paperback)
by Chuck Palahniuk
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recommended for: absolutely no one
read in January, 2005
Paul said:
"This book is a giant pile of crap. Cliche after cliche is all that this book has to offer. Juvenile is the best way to describe this book.
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Paul
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Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems, 1974-1977 (Paperback)
by Charles Bukowski
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read in May, 2007
Paul said:
"Bukowski's poetry is great because it has everything that good poetry should have, but more importantly, none of the things it shouldn't have. He is my favorite poet because the subject matter is relevant to me. His poems are often deep and touchin...more
Bukowski's poetry is great because it has everything that good poetry should have, but more importantly, none of the things it shouldn't have. He is my favorite poet because the subject matter is relevant to me. His poems are often deep and touching, but he never wanted to be lofty or pretentious. This is my favorite collection of his poems so far....less
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Paul
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Ask the Dust (P.S.)
by John Fante
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recommended for: Bukowski fans
read in October, 2007
Paul said:
"I picked this one up because someone told me Fante was Bukowski's favorite writer. Bukowski states this fact himself in the introduction he wrote to this edition.
Arturo Bandini is and intensely human and dynamic protagonist. He's talented, naive,...more
I picked this one up because someone told me Fante was Bukowski's favorite writer. Bukowski states this fact himself in the introduction he wrote to this edition.
Arturo Bandini is and intensely human and dynamic protagonist. He's talented, naive, arrogant, scared, confused, brilliant, ignorant, cruel, and compassionate, often ranging from one extreme to another within the same paragraph....less
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