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| 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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| 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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| Andre Gide’s keenly observed study of prattling-genius, soul-deficient, 1920s French schoolboys and the older fruits who patronize them, The Counterfeiters is an authentic depiction of true evil masquerading as callow pretenders. The kids are not all ...more | |
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| This second slim volume of Renee Gladman's wholly imaginary series set in a fully fabulous environment stops abruptly where I start to wonder if the author's professional friends form the basis for the chatting, precious crew of The Ravickians. ...more | |
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| James Baldwin's coming-of-age spiel is an intense experience of intertwined backstories, overlapping secret histories and a climactic and lasting melding with the savior our lord Jesus Christ that makes a boy just want to straighten up off the dusty ...more | |
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| Julian Barnes must know somebody on the Booker Prize committee. That's my sense at the ending of The Sense of an Ending. ...more | |
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| As an excavation and buttressing of his fictional universe's historical grounding, Mick Herron's Spook Street turns the Slough House world upside down. One horse ends this leg as a person entirely different from he who began the sprint. ...more | |
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| A pair of MI5 boss ladies dueling for supremacy in Mick Herron's Real Tigers emerge as two of the most vile villains in intelligence literature history. One, Lady Di, can be experienced as a treacherous Hillary Clinton. The other, Dame Ingrid, attack ...more | |
“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.”
― Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine
― Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine
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Aug 03, 2011 02:48PM
Envy. Boy, I can relate.
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