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July 06
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A Night in the Lonesome October (Paperback)
by Roger Zelazny
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CC said:
"I've read this before, briefly and hurriedly. On a reread it comes rushing back: utterly charming, intricately- yet well-plotted, funny and ominous. A Vaudeville tribute to Universal Monsters, HP Lovecraft and October itself.
This book has made my ...more
I've read this before, briefly and hurriedly. On a reread it comes rushing back: utterly charming, intricately- yet well-plotted, funny and ominous. A Vaudeville tribute to Universal Monsters, HP Lovecraft and October itself.
This book has made my summer....less
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June 26
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In Search of the Warrior Spirit (Paperback)
by Richard Strozzi Heckler
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read in June, 2008
CC said:
"Excellent - rereading it now after finishing it once already.
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May 21
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The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History (Paperback)
by Angela Carter
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CC said:
"Brief, razor-edged, pithy and brutal: Angela Carter dismantles entrenched sexuality and its self-consciously constructed counterparts using de Sade as a perfectly ground lens. Her critiques of Sade are familiar (this was first published in 1978) but ...more
Brief, razor-edged, pithy and brutal: Angela Carter dismantles entrenched sexuality and its self-consciously constructed counterparts using de Sade as a perfectly ground lens. Her critiques of Sade are familiar (this was first published in 1978) but her uses of them are radical and inspiring.
Her authorial voice reminds me of Camille Paglia, though the two women have wildly different conclusions from their material. ...less
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April 27
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Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Thomas Pynchon
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May 21
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Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior (Paperback)
by Marimba Ani
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read in May, 2008
CC said:
"READ THIS BOOK NOW.
It's hard to find; I lucked out with an interlibrary loan program connected to a few universities. It is absolutely worth reading, though, to be fair, written academically and demanding a thorough familiarity with Western history...more
READ THIS BOOK NOW.
It's hard to find; I lucked out with an interlibrary loan program connected to a few universities. It is absolutely worth reading, though, to be fair, written academically and demanding a thorough familiarity with Western history and philosophies.
It also would have scared the crap out of me, being a white man raised in the European mindset and tradition, as of two years ago. It is not racist or reactionary but it does mercilessly reveal the workings of European "thought and behavior" per non-Europeans. If you are willing to read this, do so. Stat.
(And if you can find a used copy for under $200, buy it.)...less
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March 11
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Lost Girls (Hardcover Comic)
by Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie
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CC said:
"I wanted to like this. I didn't.
It's porn, deliberately so according to Alan Moore, and drops references galore and excessive to the artful pornographies of years gone by: mostly the Art Nouveau/Symbolist/Decadent movements. But porn has changed si...more
I wanted to like this. I didn't.
It's porn, deliberately so according to Alan Moore, and drops references galore and excessive to the artful pornographies of years gone by: mostly the Art Nouveau/Symbolist/Decadent movements. But porn has changed since then, for the worse, and where the illict desires previously deserved their own attention, our sexualized world now takes that desire for granted. What would people want to do, after all, besides suck and fuck one another?
(To a more disturbing end, unfortunately implied in this story, what would *women* want to do besides suck and fuck? Can you solve all your psycho-sexual troubles by having rosy orgies? And as someone else pointed out, where are the Lost Boys?)
That presumption kills the turnon, though, and you can only see so many panels of very similar breasts and cocks and dildoes before it all becomes monotone. Like our media-at-large, the magic is killed by the constant, flattened excess.
Funny, because the Lost Girls here are magical beings: Alice, Dorothy, Wendy. And they lose that magic by becoming totally sexualized. There could have been a glorious fusion of their magical worlds and their sexual lives, but here the former is condensed into the latter and loses out.
Is it *bad*? Not really. Might be worth reading. Melinda Gebbie's art is luscious. Moore still does write the best sex in the business, too...but elsewhere....less
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Intercourse (Paperback)
by Andrea Dworkin
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February 14
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Kum Nye: Tibetan Yoga: a Complete Guide to Health & Wellbeing: 115 Exercises and Massages (Paperback)
by Tarthang Tulku
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CC said:
"I can't rate this, because it's an instructional manual. But the various Kum Nye classes I've been taking have used it as a guide, and they have been immensely transformative...
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Journey To Ixtlan (Paperback)
by Carlos Castaneda
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