Allan MacDonell
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A very highly recommended book by David Grann is a good bet for readers influenced by New York Times bestseller lists, such as studio snoops, and are looking to discover the follow-up to Killers of the Flower Moon. With The Wager, Grann has earned th ...more | |
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No Jeeves, no Bertie, no other Woosters, no Blandings, whoever they are, leaving plenty of room for transatlantic guys and dolls to stretch out and go over every move twice for enhanced comic effect. The marital status of Americans Jane and Packy is ...more | |
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New York City’s fictional crooks have been literary mainstays back to Damon Runyan if not further, crossed the color line with Chester Himes, maybe sooner, like as done by Iceberg Slim, for instance, and settled into an expertly chromatic criminality ...more | |
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The Alcoholics is one of those novels that hardboiled maestro Jim Thompson cranked out in a of couple of hours. Reading this tough-times depiction of a dollar-strapped doctor flimming every flam he can to rescue his beachfront spin-dry clinic from fo ...more | |
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Dead Man’s Walk is the first novel in Larry McMurtry’s four-part Lonesome Dove saga. The book reads like middling prestige TV. Characters are introduced thick and fast and dispatched with the same alacrity. Quality problems and savage solutions aboun ...more | |
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Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop can be fully categorized as a farcical comedy of errors. The farce is elaborate, fast and unrelenting, often funny enough and at turns obvious even to some of the novel’s Fleet Street characters. Maybe a decade later, Dorothy Par ...more | |
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James Kelman birls out 337 pages of rampant stream-of-consciousness in A Disaffection. The author and his spewing narrator appear to be equally in love with the language and the characters of the colonized Scots, the fat-fried food, the crushing foot ...more | |
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I’m partial Scots, and the wee stories (the author’s words) spun off by James Kelman’s conflicted protagonists in Keep Moving and No Questions are a vivid reminder that I might have been great and am not. | |
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At first glance through the opening chapters, none of the characters moping along in The Spider’s House is creepy enough to be a Paul Bowles protagonist. Even Poppy “Lee� Burroughs, an homage to William S., appears innocent to her wholesome core. All ...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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