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	Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine 3.59 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Punk Elegies: True Tales of Death Trip Kids, Wrongful Sex, and Trial by Angel Dust 3.86 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Now That I Am Gone: A Memoir Beyond Recall 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scary Parts by Allan MacDonell (Goodreads Author), Richard Modiano (Editor), Joe Donnelly (Foreword) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	North-West Transportation: Navigation, and Railway Company, Its Objects 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Hard Rain Falling is beat, beater, beatest writer Don Carpenter’s version of one of those Outsider books with a difference being that every primary voice is a greaser, socs have no agency, and the tribal alignment is not worth mentioning. By the time ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing The New York Stories of Henry James by Henry James	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The voluminous vocabulary and impeccable word choice of Henry James is any good literature professor’s recurring course load. The New York Stories’ characters and clinches–from a skeevy wife hunter prowling Washington Square to an apologetic defraude ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Mainlines, Blood Feasts and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader by Lester Bangs (2003-09-18) by Lester Bangs	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Edited by John Morthland, a rock critic or let’s say a cultural historian of Laster Bangs’s time and ilk, Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste collects a mess of Bangs’s refined rumblings and rabid raunch and leaves the polish and the slops for the ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Alphaville 1988: Crime, Punishment and the Battle for New York City's Lower East Side by Michael Codella	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
“New York, 1988: Welcome to Heroin City” is blazoned across the cover of this nonfiction expose and historical background paper on dope in the big town written with vigor and a sense of undisputed superiority by a former cop entrusted to battle drugs ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Joe Country (Slough House, #6) by Mick Herron	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Smart-aleck raconteur of modern-day British espionage Mick Herron wastes no pampering on his recurring substandard spy characters. In Joe Country, Herron moves deeper into his Slow Horses series of acclaimed and televised novels of heroic MI5 fuckups ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Frost by Thomas Bernhard	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Thomas Bernhard has left no trail of softness or warmth. The writer was a hard man with strict views. Frost is a novel of unrelenting voices of bitterness, despair, stupidity, and disregard for fellow humans and animals. Also, undeniable, inarguable ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Bacacay by Witold Gombrowicz	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This Polish wunderkind, Witold Gombrowicz, slithered onto the European literary scene in the early 1930s and left behind a series of eternal oddball novels that might take a while to read through. The full-length books reportedly pay off in uncountab ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing The Sluts by Dennis Cooper	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Dennis Coopers phantasmagoria of gory-ass gay atrocities always takes me back to the high-school milieu of the San Gabriel Valley. Those kids were so certain of their superior desirability and physical worth. The Sluts just need some chicks ground in ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The first thing I noticed about Laszlo Kraznahorkai’s Herscht 07769 is the text comprises four-hundred pages of a single solid sentence which I presumed correctly would be delivered at high volume and concern itself with outsider characters. Operatin ...more
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Allan MacDonell rated a book it was amazing Self-Conciousness by John Updike	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Dull deep thought to be excavated from New Yorker alum looking back at his family tree and a life of minor ailments culminating in an open letter to his pair of half-black grandsons. John Updike goes full, ponderous Self-Consciousness and is not shy ...more
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“To peruse Larry Flynt's flagship is to encounter laughable facets of necrophilia, dildo-strapped nuns, ambulatory turds, walking anuses, the perceived discrepancy in penis size between black and white males, vaginas large enough to envelop an entire man, physical intimacies with anthropomorphic pets, lesbian love rituals, the ills and quirks of male homosexuality, the corrosive effect of vaginal discharge upon automobile upholstery, the danger that freshly licked African-american lips will accidentally adhere to some glasslike surface, bar sluts, gang-bangs, wastebasket fetuses, flatulence anal and vaginal, the handicapped, Ku Klux Klansmen, lynching, anal sex, prison romance, naked females whose faces are covered by paper bags, sex crimes of the rich and famous, sex in full-body traction, retards as playthings, practical jokes committed by Saint Peter, suicide, consanguinity, animal husbandry in the connubial sense, erectile dysfunction, voyeurs, panty-sniffewrs, menstruation, STDs and philosopher houseflies delivering piquant sophistries while nibbling on corn-studded nuggets of shit.”
― Allan MacDonell, Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine

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