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Jason’s 2022 Year in Books
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American Wasteland: Bleak Tales of the Future on the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11
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Chicago After Dark: A City All-Star Student Anthology
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The CCLaP 100: Volume 1
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CCLaP's The Year In Books 2015
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Blah Blah Blah Heroin: Dennis Cooper's 'George Miles Cycle' and the Transgressive Tragedy of Generation X
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Year of Peace: A Daily Devotional
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A sneak preview of my new "handwritten blog" experiment.
Substack's been bugging me to do a paid newsletter, and I also just acquired a Kindle Scribe, their first-ever e-ink writing device; so I thought I'd try to combine both and do a blog but entirely handwritten, distributed as a PDF. Your feedback wanted! #writing #journal #blog #substack #newsletter #creativity #literary #literature #experiment #test #kindle #scribe #eink #device #handwriting #hand
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Jason Pettus
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Mel Bradley's review
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The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future:
"I am a big fan and follower of Chris Guillebeau, so my expectations for this book were a bit... high. It was a very quick read, but don't expect any big revelations or insider secrets here. This is a great glimpse into what is possible with a small i"
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Tami's review
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The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future:
"I really wanted to love this book. For being an inspirational title, I think it did already. It's gotten me to scheme about my grand plan to set myself free someday from working for others and start devising a business plan. However, I don't actually"
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| 2023 reads, #28. Digested as a synopsis through the summarizing service Blinkist. I was worried at first with Blinkist that I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a good book and a bad book, but thankfully it's actually much easier than I ...more | |
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| 2023 reads, #27. Digested as a synopsis through the summarizing service Blinkist. This is a pretty interesting if not insanely basic guide to how to go from having an idea in your head to actually being a money-making entrepreneur, and why this is ac ...more | |
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The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5:
"I am recycling this book. While I agree with the general thesis regarding entrepreneurship put forth by the author - if you could call it at that - I find the work unoriginal and repetitive. The book is full of stereotypes and quotes from other write"
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| 2023 reads, #27. Digested as a synopsis through the summarizing service Blinkist. This is a pretty interesting if not insanely basic guide to how to go from having an idea in your head to actually being a money-making entrepreneur, and why this is ac ...more | |
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| 2023 reads, #26. Digested as a synopsis through the summarizing service Blinkist. This is going to be kind of a worthless book for most people, which concentrates almost exclusively on how bad those poor little corporate CEOs have it, and all the ter ...more | |
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Kimberly Laurel (Trusty Bookmark Editorial Services)'s review
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers:
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If one of your executives becomes a big jerk dog, you have to send her to the pound Woof. (Pun intended.) This was nothing like I expected, and not in a particularly good way. The subtitle “Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers” led m" Read more of this review » |
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| 2023 reads, #26. Digested as a synopsis through the summarizing service Blinkist. This is going to be kind of a worthless book for most people, which concentrates almost exclusively on how bad those poor little corporate CEOs have it, and all the ter ...more | |
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The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride
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| 2023 reads, #25. Digested as a synopsis through the summarizing service Blinkist. This was more of a general-interest book than I would expect for one specifically mentioning that it's advice for entrepreneurs only, and most of the tips here seem to ...more | |
“it never really worked; so the moment the generation after them, the more earnest and naive Millennials, started having discretionary income for the first time, Corporate America instantly switched over to pleasing them, because the vacuous boy bands and insipid reality shows that are now a permanent part of our culture worked a lot better on them than they did the cynical, skeptical, fun-hating Generation X.)”
― Blah Blah Blah Heroin: Dennis Cooper's 'George Miles Cycle' and the Transgressive Tragedy of Generation X
― Blah Blah Blah Heroin: Dennis Cooper's 'George Miles Cycle' and the Transgressive Tragedy of Generation X
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Hello Jason:) Just wanted to stop by and let you know about my Mirrored Staircase graphic novella Trilogy campaign that I've just launched!Have a wonderful Christmas:)
http://fundanything.com/en/campaigns/...
Nice to meet you, Jason:)Feel free to stop by my daily blog here on GR whenever you're in the mood:)
Have a great night!
Frances wrote: "HAPPY BIRTHDAY?"Thank you! 44 today!
I'm so excited about your soon-to-be-funded joint Kickstarter project!! http://kck.st/TaVNH5. Since your books are not named individually in the pitch, I wanted to plug those offered under certain "backer" awards. CCLaP books: Repetition Patterns, Too Young to Fall Asleep, 99 Problems, Life After Sleep, Salt Creek Anthology, Amsterdamned if You Do, American Wasteland, Have You Seen Me, Get Up Tim, solo/down, Famous Drownings in Literary History, and Jugs & Capes. http://www.cclapcenter.com/hypermodern/
I wanted also to remind peeps to back the project! Always looking forward! Cheers!
Am really enjoying your book. Good style. And great collection. Thanks for adding!
Great job on the CCLaP 100 reviews, I hope you're still going strong!
Wonderful! I look forward to reading the review.
mp wrote: "Are you about to write a review for Midnight's Children? I hope it will be super-positive one. It is one of my favorites."Yes I am! And yes it is!
Are you about to write a review for Midnight's Children? I hope it will be super-positive one. It is one of my favorites.
Jacobmartin wrote: "Thanks for the Like Jason, I have been reading your reviews continuously for a while now.I've also been trying to watch movies you recommend as well as books, I could recommend you some like Trai..."
This is great, Jacob. I'll definitely be adding these films to my Netflix queue.
Thanks for the Like Jason, I have been reading your reviews continuously for a while now.I've also been trying to watch movies you recommend as well as books, I could recommend you some like Train Man by Hitori Nakano and, if you're brave enough, the movie version of Ryu Murakami's Audition directed by Takashi Miike. Egads, I've been unsettled for days by that big damn movie.
Have you seen the movie, UP IN THE AIR, yet? with george clooney?? You'll see lots of scenes from St. Louis because it was filmed there,and I really liked it.
Thanks for the add. I love your site CCLaP. :-)
Nick wrote: "Jason,I love your comments and what you're doing with CCLaP. I wish you the best of luck. Enjoy your BookSwim membership (and please be honest with your thoughts)
Nick Ruffilo
BookSwim.com"
Thanks, Nick! For those who don't know what he's talking about, I recently received a free two-month trial membership to Nick's company, in return for writing about my experience afterwards both here and at the CCLaP website. For those who don't know, BookSwim is essentially "Netflix for books" -- for a monthly fee they will mail X amount of titles to you, which you can then keep for as long as you want, getting new titles sent each time you mail the old ones back. I'll be posting my review of my own experience there at the beginning of December.
Jason,I love your comments and what you're doing with CCLaP. I wish you the best of luck. Enjoy your BookSwim membership (and please be honest with your thoughts)
Nick Ruffilo
BookSwim.com
Karin wrote: "Where can I find your books about your travel in Germany? Anywhere where I can get them as ebooks? I've been wanting to read them but can't seem to find them."Ah, Karin, good to hear from you! Well, the online headquarters are still up, at http://www.jasonpettus.com/kool/ and http://www.jasonpettus.com/scheisse/ , where text and photos of each trip can be found. I still haven't put out standalone electronic copies for the public yet, since that was one of the benefits of the people who paid money in advance; although after I -finally- get out the paper copy they're all owed as well, then I will finally release the PDFs for free download online.
Why, I am so pleased that you are of the same opinion of Burroughs, as me. I have read all of Burroughs work and ashamedly, I actually think I liked the others at the time that I read them (my brain must have been on vacation).On one hand, I want to re-read them and reevaluate, as I'm certain that I must have been delusional the first time around; but I also really don't want to waste my time. Why re-read Burroughs, when I can read something good instead?
It's a dilemma.
Jason PettusYou were the last person I expected to run across reading the same books as me, and having Goodreads randomly link me to your review of ... whatever it was - was really startling.
Hope life is treating you kind!
Amy Kennebec
Thanks for sharing " The name Of the Rose". I will have to add it to my collection. Have a good one
I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me today. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened to create so many messages. Some weird glitch.Argh...this is terrible...
Again, I'm very sorry.
-Jeremy
Tuck wrote: "Tuck wrote: "you all are on this list
http://electricliterature.com/blog/20..."
curbside too"