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Some Faces in the Crowd: Short Stories (Paperback) by Budd Schulberg bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Michelle's
review of Die a Little: A Novel:
"Fabulous. I devoured it in the last 2 days. Megan Abbott writes like a cross between Jim Thompson, James M. Cain and Doris Day. I think I'm going to log off now and drink a gin rickey and eat a cream puff. " | |||
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Rock Dreams (Paperback) by Nik Cohn bookshelves: art-gallery, kool-imports, rock-sleaze |
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recommended for: rock fans
read in August, 1998 
Andy said:
"When "Rock Dreams" first came out in caused a sensation with its photo-realistic fantasies of rock stars in mostly nightmarish settings. You'll see:
Johnny Cash on a chain gang Jim Morrison, Roy Orbison and Ray Davies rubbing elbows in a...more " |
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Beneath the Wheel (Paperback) by Hermann Hesse bookshelves: kool-imports |
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recommended for: mid-term finals freaks
read in July, 1997
Andy said:
"Underrated brilliance from Hesse about an insanely hard-working student who finally cracks like an egg and has to slow down and appreciate the world around him, even if it kills him. This kind of tale gets pretty trite very easily, but Hesse's German...more
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Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams (Paperback) by Nick Tosches bookshelves: hollywoodbabylon |
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recommended for: showbiz boobs
read in September, 1993
Andy said:
"Anyone thinking about writing a biography about Dean Martin, forget about it. "Dino" isn't hard to beat, it's downright impossible. The inexhaustible biography on Dino covers every facet of his career, from the Jerry Lewis sidekick days to ...more
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Rebel Heart: An American Rock 'n' Roll Journey (Paperback) by Bebe Buell, Victor Bockris bookshelves: rock-sleaze |
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recommended for: rock strumpets
read in February, 2000
Andy said:
"This is my 3rd book written by a Playboy Playmate, the first was "Star" by Pamela Anderson, the second was "Sleeping With Bad Boys" by Alice Whoever, and now this. All three books have the following in common:
a) They all prett...more " |
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Hellcats, Vixens, & Vicedolls: Women, Crime, and Kink of the Fifties (Paperback) by Various Authors bookshelves: pulp-fiction |
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recommended for: evil woomans
read in July, 2008
Andy said:
"The kind of book you should read in short spurts by the bowl. It's just a bunch of articles from True Detective Magazines, some of them displaying some dames as criminals, some as victims. It's all told in that dry "Dragnet"-type Fifties ex...more
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New comment on Imogen's review of
The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
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Andy
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Imogen's
review of The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library):
"Hannah asked me to write about this thing and why I liked it so much (because she totally hated it), but I can't really remember. I think 'cause if it was 1000 pages, I would get bored, but two hundred tightly-wound pages of self-referential paranoia...more " | |||
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New comment on Imogen's review of
Twilight (Twilight Series, Book 1)
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New comment on Christopher's review of
No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
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Andy's favorite quotes
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde
— Oscar Wilde
"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
tags:
censorship,
food
222 people liked it
"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."
— Dorothy Parker
— Dorothy Parker
"If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!"
— John Waters
— John Waters
"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company. "
— -Jean-Paul Sartre
— -Jean-Paul Sartre
Andy's writing
Butcher Boy (Business & Investing)
1 chapters
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updated 9 days ago, 08:10PM
description:
Blood, sweat, tears and meat, kosher meat...at $5.75 an hour, making ends meat (sic)
Doomsday Or Bust (Mystery & Thrillers)
1 chapters
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updated 06/15/2008 01:59PM
description:
If all the best men are gay or married this is what the rest of them live through.
Hemorrhage (Horror)
1 chapters
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updated 05/12/2008 08:02PM
description:
When you find your MIA brother in a crap motel in Las Vegas, it's no smaller a gamble than the Roulette Wheel.
Pico and Robertson (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters
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updated 04/13/2008 08:58AM
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Growing up in your teenage years in a decaying Jewish neighborhood that resembles a carnival freak show crossed with a clinic for the criminally insane.
Foreign Cinema and The Beverly Hills Police Dept. (Nonfiction)
1 chapters
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updated 03/11/2008 02:05PM
description:
Excerpt from my blog "Out Demons Out"
http://blackhairedboy.blogspot.com/
Andy's groups (recent posts)
Watching The Detectives
— 16 members
— last activity 1 day ago, 06:07AM
Discussion Group For Noir, Crime and Detective Fiction both classic and modern.
Hard Case Crime
— 80 members
— last activity 28 days ago, 08:24PM
"They do write 'em like they used to."
—Publishers Weekly on Fade to Blonde
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Andy this is so cool buping in to you and all. Seen Martha a bunch lately. If they only knew -like namewise and all -which they shouldn't! Look forward to reading your stuff.
-Eddie
No Way! thats the best story ever :) i wonder if that story is online? lol!
Andy this is so cool buping in to you and all. Seen Martha a bunch lately. If they only knew -like namewise and all -which they shouldn't! Look forward to reading your stuff.-Eddie
No Way! thats the best story ever :) i wonder if that story is online? lol!
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