Jason's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 05 May 2025 01:03:08 -0700 60 Jason's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Death in Venice and Other Tales]]> 53064 384 Thomas Mann 0141181737 Jason 4 3.92 Death in Venice and Other Tales
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]]> Faust 406373 Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract with Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seeks to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last forever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephistopheles and must serve him after death. In this first part of Goethe’s great work, the embittered thinker and Mephistopheles enter into their agreement, and soon Faust is living a rejuvenated life and winning the love of the beautiful Gretchen. But in this compelling tragedy of arrogance, unfulfilled desire, and self-delusion, Faust heads inexorably toward an infernal destruction.]]> 503 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 0385031149 Jason 3 3.90 1808 Faust
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]]> <![CDATA[One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]> 17125 The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn's stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy"--Harrison Salisbury

This unexpurgated 1991 translation by H. T. Willetts is the only authorized edition available, and fully captures the power and beauty of the original Russian.]]> 182 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Jason 0 to-read 3.98 1962 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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]]> The Annotated Lolita 7606
The Annotated Lolita is the definitive annotated text of the modern classic, written by one of the most punning and allusive writers in English since James Joyce. It assiduously glosses Lolita's extravagant wordplay and its frequent literary allusions, parodies, and cross references.
--back cover]]> 457 Vladimir Nabokov 0679727299 Jason 5 4.14 1955 The Annotated Lolita
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]]> History of Madness 770903 Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la Folie à l'âge Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time an abridged English edition was published in 1967 as Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault had shaken the intellectual world.

This translation is the first English edition of the complete French texts of the first and second edition, including all prefaces and appendices, some of them unavailable in the existing French edition.

History of Madness begins in the Middle Ages with vivid descriptions of the exclusion and confinement of lepers. Why, Foucault asks, when the leper houses were emptied at the end of the Middle Ages, were they turned into places of confinement for the mad? Why, within the space of several months in 1656, was one out of every hundred people in Paris confined?

Shifting brilliantly from Descartes and early Enlightenment thought to the founding of the Hopital General in Paris and the work of early psychiatrists Philippe Pinel and Samuel Tuke, Foucault focuses throughout, not only on scientific and medical analyses of madness, but also on the philosophical and cultural values attached to the mad. He also urges us to recognize the creative and liberating forces that madness represents, brilliantly drawing on examples from Goya, Nietzsche, Van Gogh and Artaud.

The History of Madness is an inspiring and classic work that challenges us to understand madness, reason and power and the forces that shape them. "]]> 736 Michel Foucault 0415277019 Jason 0 to-read 4.26 1961 History of Madness
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]]> <![CDATA[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Dubliners]]> 23296
In the semi-autobiographical Portrait, young Stephen Dedalus yearns to be an artist, but first must struggle against the forces of church, school, and society, which fetter his imagination and stifle his soul. The book’s inventive style is apparent from its opening pages, a record of an infant’s impressions of the world around him—and one of the first examples of the “stream of consciousness� technique.

Comprising fifteen stories, Dubliners presents a community of mesmerizing, humorous, and haunting characters—a group portrait. The interactions among them form one long meditation on the human condition, culminating with “The Dead,� one of Joyce’s most graceful compositions centering around a character’s epiphany. A carefully woven tapestry of Dublin life at the turn of the last century, Dubliners realizes Joyce’s ambition to give his countrymen “one good look at themselves.�

Kevin J. H. Dettmar is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is the author or editor of a half-dozen books on James Joyce, modernist literature, and rock music. He is currently finishing a term as President of the Modernist Studies Association.
--back cover]]> 464 James Joyce 159308031X Jason 5 3.94 1914 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Dubliners
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]]> <![CDATA[Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces]]> 691002 Krapp’s Last Tape evolves a shattering drama out of a monologue of a man who, at age sixty-nine, plays back the autobiographical tape he recorded on his thirty-ninth birthday.
The two radio plays were commissioned by the BBC; All That Fall “plumbs the same pessimistic depths [as Waiting for Godot] in what seems a no less despairing search for human dignity� (London Times), and Embers is equally unforgettable theater, born of the ramblings of an old man and his wife. Finally, in the two pantomimes, Beckett takes drama to the point of pure abstraction with his portrayals of, in Act Without Words I, frustrated desired, and in Act Without Words I, corresponding motions of living juxtaposed in the slow despair of one man and the senselessly busy motion of another.]]> 141 Samuel Beckett 0802151345 Jason 3 3.97 1958 Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces
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]]> <![CDATA[Clockwork Orange (ScreenPress Film Screenplays)]]> 8816
This unique illustrated screenplay features 800 still images from “A Clockwork Orange,� selected by Stanley Kubrick when the film was first released in 1971. As Kubrick comments in his introduction: “I have always wondered if there might be a more meaningful way to present a book about a film. To make, as it were, a complete graphic representation of the film, cut by cut, with the dialogue printed in the proper place in relation to the cuts, so that within the limits of still photos and words, an accurate (and I hope interesting) record of a film might be available� This book represents that attempt.�

Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel by Anthony Burgess.]]> 340 Stanley Kubrick 1901680479 Jason 0 to-read 4.24 1972 Clockwork Orange (ScreenPress Film Screenplays)
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]]> <![CDATA[Dick Contino's Blues and Other Stories]]> 444220
Meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose in Los Angeles...a killer who is closer to Contino than he suspects - a killer who wants in on the kidnap, for real...

Plus five previously unpublished short stories.]]> 170 James Ellroy 0099410117 Jason 2 3.61 1993 Dick Contino's Blues and Other Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century]]> 392563 The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century is a voyage into the labyrinth of modern music, which remains an obscure world for most people. While paintings of Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a hundred million dollars or more, and lines from T. S. Eliot are quoted on the yearbook pages of alienated teenagers across the land, twentieth-century classical music still sends ripples of unease through audiences. At the same time, its influence can be felt everywhere. Atonal chords crop up in jazz. Avant-garde sounds populate the soundtracks of Hollywood thrillers. Minimalism has had a huge effect on rock, pop, and dance music from the Velvet Underground onward.

The Rest Is Noise shows why twentieth-century composers felt compelled to create a famously bewildering variety of sounds, from the purest beauty to the purest noise. It tells of a remarkable array of maverick personalities who resisted the cult of the classical past, struggled against the indifference of a wide public, and defied the will of dictators. Whether they have charmed audiences with sweet sounds or battered them with dissonance, composers have always been exuberantly of the present, defying the stereotype of classical music as a dying art. The narrative goes from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties, from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies. We follow the rise of mass culture and mass politics, of dramatic new technologies, of hot and cold wars, of experiments, revolutions, riots, and friendships forged and broken. The end result is not so much a history of twentieth-century music as a history of the twentieth century through its music.]]> 640 Alex Ross 0374249393 Jason 4 currently-reading 4.08 2007 The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
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]]> <![CDATA[The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone]]> 1540 259 Sophocles 015602764X Jason 0 currently-reading 3.97 -450 The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
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]]> The Book of Dave 119114 496 Will Self 1596911239 Jason 4 3.61 2006 The Book of Dave
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]]> Snow Crash 830 Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous� you'll recognize it immediately.]]> 438 Neal Stephenson 0553380958 Jason 4 4.02 1992 Snow Crash
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]]> <![CDATA[Sun Storm (Rebecka Martinsson, #1)]]> 423523
Rebecka Martinsson is heading home to Kiruna, the town she’d left in disgrace years before. A Stockholm attorney, Rebecka has a good reason to return: her friend Sanna, whose brother has been horrifically murdered in the revivalist church his charisma helped create. Beautiful and fragile, Sanna needs someone like Rebecka to remove the shadow of guilt that is engulfing her, to forestall an ambitious prosecutor and a dogged policewoman. But to help her friend, and to find the real killer of a man she once adored and is now not sure she ever knew, Rebecka must relive the darkness she left behind in Kiruna, delve into a sordid conspiracy of deceit, and confront a killer whose motives are dark, wrenching, and impossible to guess. . . .

Praise for Sun Storm

“Richly atmospheric.� � Kirkus Reviews

“Larsson builds suspense gradually but inexorably, and she is equally good at creating mood. . . .This impressive debut heralds another striking voice from Scandinavia.� � Booklist  

“For those who eschew exotic travel in favor of the familiar hammock, there’s nothing better than a well-written and well-translated story from some place you’ll probably never visit. is that story and more!� � Rocky Mountain News  ]]> 310 Åsa Larsson 0385340788 Jason 3 3.70 2003 Sun Storm (Rebecka Martinsson, #1)
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]]> The Football Factory 1023212 262 John King 0224043021 Jason 4 3.24 1997 The Football Factory
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]]> <![CDATA[Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer]]> 2403852
The Clash was--and still is--one of the most important groups of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Indebted to rockabilly, reggae, Memphis soul, cowboy justice, and '60s protest, the overtly political band railed against war, racism, and a dead-end economy, and in the process imparted a conscience to punk. Their eponymous first record and London Calling still rank in Rolling Stone 's top-ten best albums of all time, and in 2003 they were officially inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Joe Strummer was the Clash's front man, a rock-and-roll hero seen by many as the personification of outlaw integrity and street cool. The political heart of the Clash, Strummer synthesized gritty toughness and poetic sensitivity in a manner that still resonates with listeners, and his untimely death in December 2002 shook the world, further solidifying his iconic status.

Salewicz was a friend to Strummer for close to three decades and has covered the Clash's career and the entire punk movement from its inception. He uses his vantage point to write Redemption Song, the definitive biography of Strummer, charting his enormous worldwide success, his bleak years in the wilderness after the Clash's bitter breakup, and his triumphant return to stardom at the end of his life.

Salewicz argues for Strummer's place in a long line of protest singers that includes Woody Guthrie, John Lennon, and Bob Marley, and examines by turns Strummer's and punk's ongoing cultural influence.]]> 640 Chris Salewicz 0865479828 Jason 5 4.12 2006 Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer
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]]> <![CDATA[Victoria Underfoot: Excavating a City's Secrets]]> 4134515 144 Nick Russell 1550174193 Jason 2 3.64 2008 Victoria Underfoot: Excavating a City's Secrets
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]]> Shuck 3733500 Shuck describes with great clarity and verve the last gasp of a gritty Manhattan.”—Bruce LaBruce, film director

Shuck is the intense, dazzling diary of a male hustler in New York who tries to manage his reputation as the city’s porn star du jour when he’s not dumpster diving, tweaking, or trying to get published. A remarkable peep show of a novel about what binds artists and prostitutes, and the collateral damage of what happens when they try to recover what they have lost.

Daniel Allen Cox is a former porn star. This is his first novel.]]> 176 Daniel Allen Cox 1551522462 Jason 3 3.90 2009 Shuck
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]]> The Master and Margarita 117833 The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.

An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech.

One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's splendid English version.]]> 372 Mikhail Bulgakov 0679760806 Jason 3 4.31 1967 The Master and Margarita
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]]> <![CDATA[Herzog on Herzog: Conversations with Paul Cronin]]> 40174 His international breakthrough came in 1973 with Aguirre, The Wrath of God , in which Klaus Kinski played a crazed Conquistador. For The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser , Herzog cast in the lead a man who had spent most of his life institutionalized, and two years later he hypnotized his entire cast to make Heart of Glass . He rushed to an explosive volcanic Caribbean island to film La Soufrière , paid homage to F. W. Murnau in a terrifying remake of Nosferatu , and in 1982 dragged a boat over a mountain in the Amazon jungle for Fitzcarraldo . More recently, Herzog has made extraordinary "documentary" films such as Little Dieter Needs to Fly . His place in cinema history is assured, and Paul Cronin's volume of dialogues provides a forum for Herzog's fascinating views on the things, ideas, and people that have preoccupied him for so many years.]]> 352 Paul Cronin 0571207081 Jason 5 4.45 2003 Herzog on Herzog: Conversations with Paul Cronin
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]]> <![CDATA[Hardcore Troubadour: The Life and Near Death of Steve Earle]]> 1444448 416 Lauren St. John 0007149425 Jason 2 3.81 2002 Hardcore Troubadour: The Life and Near Death of Steve Earle
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]]> Doghouse Roses: Stories 63887
Earle’s stories reflect the many facets of the man and the hard-fought struggles, the defeats, and the eventual triumphs he has experienced during a career spanning three decades. In the title story he offers us a gut-wrenchingly honest portrait of a nearly famous singer whose life and soul have been all but devoured by drugs. “Billy the Kid� is a fable about everything that will never happen in Nashville, and “Wheeler County� tells a romantic, sweet-tempered tale about a hitchhiker stranded for years in a small Texas town. A story about the husband of a murder victim witnessing an execution addresses a subject Earle has passionately taken on as a social activist, and a cycle of stories features “the American,� a shady international wanderer, Vietnam vet, and sometime drug smuggler � a character who can be seen as Earle’s alter ego, the person he might have become if he had been drafted.

Earle is a songwriter’s songwriter, and here he takes his writing gift into another medium, along with all the grace, poetry, and deep feeling that has made his music honored around the world.]]> 224 Steve Earle 0618219242 Jason 4 3.80 2001 Doghouse Roses: Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories]]> 173984 New York Times-bestselling Grand Master of suspense deftly displays the other side of his genius, with seven classic western tales of destiny and fatal decision . . . and trust as essential to survival as it is hard-earned.]]> 193 Elmore Leonard 0061121649 Jason 0 to-read 3.94 1953 Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories
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]]> Mr Majestyk 288961
Heading to prison, Majestyk finds himself shackled beside a notorious Mafia hit man. And now a man who's been searching for peace and a man who's been looking for an angle are about to be set free by a violent breakout: making the farmer and the hit man each other's only hope and worst possible enemy.

Mr. Majestyk is vintage Leonard, an edgy, dark, fiendishly compelling tale of a quiet man making a whole lot of noise....]]> 150 Elmore Leonard 0753822369 Jason 0 to-read 3.85 1974 Mr Majestyk
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]]> Up in Honey's Room 288956 292 Elmore Leonard 0060724242 Jason 4 3.44 2007 Up in Honey's Room
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]]> Out of Sight (Jack Foley, #1) 288962 Book #1 from the series: Jack Foley
Listening Length = 6 hours and 49 minutes

Before there was Raylan, there was Sisco... U.S. Marshal Karen Sisco is on the hunt for world-class gentleman felon Jack Foley in Out of Sight, New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard’s sexy thriller that moves from Miami to the Motor City.

Based on Miami, Florida's Gold Coast, U.S. Marshal Karen Sisco isn’t about to let a expert criminal like Jack Foley successfully bust out of Florida's Glades Prison. But there’s a major score waiting for him in Detroit, and a shotgun-wielding marshal isn’t going to stop Foley from getting it.

Neither counted on sharing a cramped car trunk—or on a sizzling chemistry that’s working overtime. As soon as Sisco escapes, Foley is already missing her.

Sisco can’t forget Foley either—and she isn’t about to let him go. Too bad the next time their paths cross, it’s going to be about business, not pleasure.]]> 358 Elmore Leonard 0060084103 Jason 0 to-read 3.95 1996 Out of Sight (Jack Foley, #1)
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]]> Killshot 85210 New York Times bestselling author the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette once called, “the Alexander the Great of crime fiction,� Elmore Leonard is responsible for creating some of the sharpest dialogue, most compelling characters (including U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of TV’s Justified fame), and, quite simply, some of the very best suspense novels written over the past century. Killshot is prime Leonard—a riveting story of a husband and wife caught in the crossfire when they foil a criminal act and are forced to defend themselves when the legal system fails them from the murderous wrath of a pair of vengeful killers. When it comes to cops and criminals stories, Killshot and Leonard are as good as it gets—further proof why “the King Daddy of crime writers� (Seattle Times) deserves his current place among John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and the other legendary greats of the noir fiction genre.
]]> 334 Elmore Leonard 0060512245 Jason 4 3.74 1989 Killshot
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]]> Pagan Babies 206553 334 Elmore Leonard 0060008776 Jason 4 3.54 2000 Pagan Babies
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]]> Maximum Bob 288957
Maximum Bob is a delightfully dark classic thriller, and any reader who loved getting gleefully lost in criminal mayhem of Get Shorty, Rum Punch, Out of Sight, The Hot Kid, or any number of the inimitable Leonard’s numerous crime fiction masterworks will get maximum enjoyment out of this one.]]> 352 Elmore Leonard 0060084081 Jason 3 3.81 1991 Maximum Bob
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)]]> 240910
Jackie, however, has other plans. And with the help of Max Cherry - an honest but disgruntled bail bondsman looking to get out - she could even end up with a serious nest egg in the process.]]> 304 Elmore Leonard 0753819732 Jason 3 3.94 1992 Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)
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]]> Get Shorty (Chili Palmer, #1) 702539 killer movie, though it could very possibly kill him to get it made.]]> 384 Elmore Leonard 006008216X Jason 3 3.98 1990 Get Shorty (Chili Palmer, #1)
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average rating: 3.98
book published: 1990
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Because the Night (Lloyd Hopkins, #2)]]> 36060 279 James Ellroy 1400095298 Jason 1 3.49 1984 Because the Night (Lloyd Hopkins, #2)
author: James Ellroy
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book published: 1984
rating: 1
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]]> L.A. Noir 100997 644 James Ellroy 0892966866 Jason 1 3.98 1991 L.A. Noir
author: James Ellroy
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average rating: 3.98
book published: 1991
rating: 1
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]]> <![CDATA[Suicide Hill (Lloyd Hopkins, #3)]]> 36063 280 James Ellroy 1400095301 Jason 1 3.51 1986 Suicide Hill (Lloyd Hopkins, #3)
author: James Ellroy
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average rating: 3.51
book published: 1986
rating: 1
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]]> <![CDATA[Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1)]]> 21767
Now, there’s something haunting him. He sees a connection in a series of increasingly gruesome murders of women committed over a period of twenty years. To solve the case, Hopkins will dump all the rules and risk his career to make the final link and get the killer.]]> 262 James Ellroy 140009528X Jason 1 3.45 1984 Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1)
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average rating: 3.45
book published: 1984
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]]> Hollywood Nocturnes 101008
Dig the swinging sax man's doing repos and plotting a kidnapping-of himself; a tommy gun is ripping apart windows, curtains, and bodies in High Darktown; a carhop at Scrivner's is keeping two extremely sweet sugar daddies, Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen, happy-until the scene turns murderous.

This is the hip-hop hard-edged world of L.A. 1950s cars with fins, Commies in closets, starmakers with come-ons, ex-cons with guns, and cops with mean streaks as wide as Sunset Strip.

James Ellroy's bizarre, stark tales dazzle us with their unexpected humor, raw brutality, and slightly lighter-than-usual noir realism. Hollywood Nocturnes is quintessential bluesy, black, and very, very hot.]]> 304 James Ellroy 0385333285 Jason 3 3.78 1993 Hollywood Nocturnes
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rating: 3
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]]> Brown's Requiem 100998 248 James Ellroy 0380731770 Jason 3 3.53 1981 Brown's Requiem
author: James Ellroy
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book published: 1981
rating: 3
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]]> Killer on the Road 36059 272 James Ellroy 038080896X Jason 1 3.66 1986 Killer on the Road
author: James Ellroy
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book published: 1986
rating: 1
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]]> <![CDATA[The Cold Six Thousand (Underworld USA #2)]]> 4191
In this savagely audacious novel, James Ellroy plants a pipe bomb under the America in the 1960s, lights the fuse, and watches the shrapnel fly. On November 22, 1963 three men converge in Dallas. Their to clean up the JFK hit’s loose ends and inconvenient witnesses. They are Wayne Tedrow, Jr., a Las Vegas cop with family ties to the lunatic right; Ward J. Littell, a defrocked FBI man turned underworld mouthpiece; and Pete Bondurant, a dope-runner and hit-man who serves as the mob’s emissary to the anti-Castro underground.

It goes bad from there. For the next five years these night-riders run a whirlwind of plots and Howard Hughes’s takeover of Vegas, J. Edgar Hoover’s war against the civil rights movement, the heroin trade in Vietnam, and the murders of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy. Wilder than L. A. Confidential, more devastating than American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand establishes Ellroy as one of our most fearless novelists.]]> 688 James Ellroy 037572740X Jason 4 4.03 2001 The Cold Six Thousand (Underworld USA #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)]]> 36058 472 James Ellroy 0099366614 Jason 4 4.09 1988 The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)
author: James Ellroy
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average rating: 4.09
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]]> White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4) 101000
Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.

Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad cop to draw the heat," and the heat's coming from all from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins--all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden. For Klein, "forty-two and going on dead," it's dues time.

Klein tells his own story--his voice clipped, sharp, often as brutal as the events he's describing--taking us with him on a journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, avarice, and perversion. It's a world he created, but now he'll do anything to get out of it alive.

Fierce, riveting, and honed to a razor edge, White Jazz is crime fiction at its most shattering.]]> 354 James Ellroy 0375727361 Jason 4 3.93 1992 White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)]]> 36064
Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy...

Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder, buys a moment of a man's loyalty...

Where three renegade law-enforcement officers—a former L.A. cop and two FBI agents—are shaping events with the virulence of their greed and hatred, riding full-blast shotgun into history....

James Ellroy's trademark nothing-spared rendering of reality, blistering language, and relentless narrative pace are here in electrifying abundance, put to work in a novel as shocking and daring as anything he's written: a secret history that zeroes in on a time still shrouded in secrets and blows it wide open.

Chosen by Time magazine as one of the ten best books of the year.

"Hard-bitten ... ingenious ... Ellroy segues into political intrigue without missing a beat." �The New York Times

"Vastly entertaining." �Los Angeles Times

"One hellishly exciting ride." �Detroit Free Press

"A supremely controlled work of art." �The New York Times Book Review]]> 592 James Ellroy 037572737X Jason 4 4.21 1995 American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)]]> 57727 496 James Ellroy Jason 5 4.21 1990 L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)]]> 21704 348 James Ellroy 0446698873 Jason 4 3.77 1987 The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
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]]> My Dark Places 36061 L.A. Confidential comes My Dark Places, an investigative autobiography by James Ellroy. In 1958, Ellroy's mother, Jean, was raped, killed, and dumped off a road in El Monte, California, a rundown L.A. suburb. The killer was never found, and the case was closed. It was a sordid, back-page homicide that no one remembered. Except her son.

James Ellroy was ten years old when his mother died. His bereavement was complex and ambiguous: "I cried. I cranked tears out all the way to L.A. I hated her. I hated El Monte. Some unknown killer just bought me a brand-new beautiful life." He grew up obsessed with murdered women and crime. He ran from his mother's ghost.

Ellroy became a writer of radically provocative and bestselling crime novels. "I wear obsession well," he says. "I've turned it into something." He tried to reclaim his mother through fiction. It didn't work. He quit running and wrote this memoir.

My Dark Places is Jean and James Ellroy's story—from 1958 to all points past and up to this moment. It is the story of a brilliant homicide detective named Bill Stoner and of the investigation he and Ellroy undertook. It is also an unflinching autobiography with vivid reportage. This is James Ellroy's journey through his most forbidding memories.]]> 427 James Ellroy 0517288990 Jason 5 3.86 1996 My Dark Places
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]]> The Killer Inside Me 298663
But behind the platitudes and glad-handing lurks a monster the likes of which few have seen. An urge that has already claimed multiple lives, and cost Lou his brother Mike, a self-sacrificing construction worker who fell to his death on the job in what was anything but an accident. A murder that Lou is determined to avenge--and if innocent people have to die in the process, well, that's perfectly all right with him.

In The Killer Inside Me, Thompson goes where few novelists have dared to go, giving us a pitch-black glimpse into the mind of the American Serial Killer years before Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, and Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho, in the novel that will forever be known as the master performance of one of the greatest crime novelists of all time.]]> 244 Jim Thompson 0679733973 Jason 0 to-read 3.88 1952 The Killer Inside Me
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]]> South of Heaven 246709
Combining a tale of escalating savagery with a dead-eyed group portrait of men at the edge, Jim Thompson has produced a masterpiece of the American dissolute.]]> 240 Jim Thompson 0679740171 Jason 3 3.69 1967 South of Heaven
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rating: 3
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]]> The Alcoholics 246821 128 Jim Thompson 0679733132 Jason 3 3.40 1953 The Alcoholics
author: Jim Thompson
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Gammage Cup (The Minnipins, #1)]]> 158992 Yet sometimes heroes turn up when they are least expected....

Muggles, Gummy the poet, and Walter the Earl are not like the other Minnipins. They dress differently, speak their minds, and -- when Walter the Earl finds a package of old scrolls and swords -- dare to disagree with the Minnipin leaders. For their troubles, they are banished from their village.

But Walter the Earl found the weapons for a reason: The Hairless Ones have returned. And this time there is no Gammage to protect the Minnipins. This time there are only Muggles and her friends, outlaws who must rescue the very people who have cast them out.]]> 304 Carol Kendall 015202493X Jason 4 3.96 1959 The Gammage Cup (The Minnipins, #1)
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average rating: 3.96
book published: 1959
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Eric Bogosian Reading and Interview]]> 310264 2 Eric Bogosian 1556444192 Jason 0 to-read 0.0 Eric Bogosian Reading and Interview
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]]> <![CDATA[Griller - Acting Edition (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)]]> 381897 72 Eric Bogosian 082222044X Jason 0 to-read 3.83 2005 Griller - Acting Edition (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)
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]]> <![CDATA[Red Angel - Acting Edition (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)]]> 381893 72 Eric Bogosian 0822220466 Jason 0 to-read 3.40 2005 Red Angel - Acting Edition (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)
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]]> Humpty Dumpty and Other Plays 310263
In Humpty Dumpty , five friends gather for a holiday at a mountain getaway where unforeseen events bring them to the brink of the end of the world. Griller is set in a New Jersey backyard, where a barbecue gathering turns sinister and deadly. Red Angel is Bogosian’s riff on Von Sternberg’s The Blue Angel , reset on a college campus in 1990s New England.

One of America’s premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists, Eric Bogosian’s plays and solo work include suburbia (Lincoln Center Theater, 1994; adapted to film by director Richard Linklater, 1996); Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll , Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead ; Griller ; Humpty Dumpty ; 1+1 ; Skunkweed ; Wake Up and Smell the Coffee ; Drinking in America ; Notes from Underground and Talk Radio (Pulitzer Prize finalist; New York Shakespeare Festival, 1987; Broadway, 2007; adapted to film by director Oliver Stone, 1988). He has starred in a wide variety of film, TV and stage roles. Most recently, he created the character of Captain Danny Ross on the long-running series Law & Criminal Intent . In 2014, TCG published 100 (monologues) , a collection that commemorates thirty years of Bogosian’s solo-performance career.]]> 240 Eric Bogosian 1559362510 Jason 0 to-read 3.90 2004 Humpty Dumpty and Other Plays
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]]> <![CDATA[Physiognomy: The Mark Seliger Photographs]]> 381892 224 Mark Seliger 0821225987 Jason 0 to-read 4.71 1999 Physiognomy: The Mark Seliger Photographs
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]]> Wasted Beauty 310261 With his dark wit and corrosive dialogue, Eric Bogosian tells a powerful and emotionally wrenching tale of two lovers who form a mesmerizing and destructive bond while trying to evade the looming failure of their respective lives.

Reba runs away from her shabby and desolate rural community for the lure of New York City. Her tall and awkward frame lands her work modeling, but she is not prepared for the glamorous, drug-fueled life of a celebrated mannequin. After a series of painful relationships, she sees hope and an exit toward stability and sanity in the man who saves her brother's life.

This man is Rick, a successful SoHo general practitioner with a warm family and an idyllic life that has left him restless and hollow. He doesn't take Reba seriously until he finds himself so enmeshed in her beauty that he risks losing everything--his home, his children and his beloved wife.

Now this master monologist and author of the acclaimed Mall returns with a sprawling novel of urban desperation and desire that brings to mind the winding narratives of Tom Wolfe salted with the dark urges of Philip Roth. The New York Times hailed Eric Bogosian's fiction as "caustic, fast-paced....Adapting himself to fiction with...the same garrulous intensity he brings to plays and monologues, Mr. Bogosian sets in motion a suburban nightmare." And Entertainment Weekly has lauded his "merciless satirical vision (that) takes you deep into the dark heart of the American dream."

Wasted Beauty is Bogosian's enthralling journey through the high life of drugs and fashion celebrity, middle-class guilt and sexual obsession.

Copyright © 2005 by Simon & Schuster

]]> 272 Eric Bogosian 0743235886 Jason 0 to-read 3.55 2005 Wasted Beauty
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]]> Wake Up and Smell the Coffee 381889 New York Daily News


"Bogosian hasn't simply crossed the line of good taste, he has snorted it."�The Daily Texan


“No, Bogosian isn’t angry. He’s furious, and perplexed, and neurotic, and brilliant as ever.� -The Boston Globe



Wake Up is Bogosian's meditation on making it to the top of the ladder, on falling off the ladder and on the exhilarating thrill of the ultimate crash and burn. Once again the author offers a blisteringly funny and dead-on take of the chaos and alienation of post-modern life in the U. S. of the year 2000. As Michael Feingold so ably offered in his Village Voice review�"Bogosian is there, watching out for the downtrodden, ridiculing the arrogant rich, defending battered wives and neo-hippie hitchhikers and never losing sight of his own capacity for being classed among the batters and bullies. But his 95 minutes is as fast and exciting a read as the theatre community offers. In our time, the stage has almost been what classical thinkers saw it as, a medium for criticizing life. How perfect that a solo performer should rediscover its roots, by choosing his own life as the object of his criticism."

One of America's premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists, Eric Bogosian's plays and solo shows include Talk Radio (Pulitzer Prize finalist); subUrbia; Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll; Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead, among many others. He has starred in a wide variety of film, TV and stage roles. Most recently, he created the character Captain Danny Ross on the long-running series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 100, a collection of monologues, commemorating thirty years of Bogosian's solo-performance career, was published by TCG in 2014.
]]> 72 Eric Bogosian 1559362022 Jason 0 to-read 3.87 2001 Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
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]]> <![CDATA[Notes from Underground & Scenes from the New World]]> 381890
This volume features two of Bogosian's more unsettling works. Notes from Underground charts, in diary form, the life of an urban recluse who wants desperately to be "normal" but ultimately sinks into an abyss of his own making. Scenes from the New World is a play composed of three one-acts, probing modern life on the eve of the millennium.

One of America’s premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists, Eric Bogosian’s plays and solo work include suburbia (Lincoln Center Theater, 1994; adapted to film by director Richard Linklater, 1996); Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll , Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead ; Griller ; Humpty Dumpty ; 1+1 ; Skunkweed ; Wake Up and Smell the Coffee ; Drinking in America ; Notes from Underground and Talk Radio (Pulitzer Prize finalist; New York Shakespeare Festival, 1987; Broadway, 2007; adapted to film by director Oliver Stone, 1988). He has starred in a wide variety of film, TV and stage roles. Most recently, he created the character of Captain Danny Ross on the long-running series Law & Criminal Intent . In 2014, TCG published 100 (monologues) , a collection that commemorates thirty years of Bogosian’s solo-performance career.]]> 162 Eric Bogosian 1559361425 Jason 5 3.75 1993 Notes from Underground & Scenes from the New World
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]]> Talk Radio (TCG Edition) 1393157 Talk Radio is just about the best theatrical expression of our fucked-up culture that I know.� -John Hellpern, New York Observer

“Gut-grabbing� the most lacerating portrait of a human meltdown this side of a Francis Bacon painting.� -Ben Brantley, New York Times

“More timely today than it was twenty years ago� Radio crackles with intensity.� -Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News

“Hypnotic! Both as an actor’s tour-de-force and a stinging cultural analysis.� -David Rooney, Variety

This is the fully revised version of Eric Bogosian’s Talk Radio, his breakthrough 1987 Public Theater hit, which was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, was adapted to film by Oliver Stone, and was revived on Broadway in 2007 in celebration of the play's twentieth anniversary.

One of America’s premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists, Eric Bogosian’s plays and solo work include suburbia (Lincoln Center Theater, 1994; adapted to film by director Richard Linklater, 1996); Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead; Griller; Humpty Dumpty; 1+1; Skunkweed; Wake Up and Smell the Coffee; Drinking in America; Notes from Underground and Talk Radio (Pulitzer Prize finalist; New York Shakespeare Festival, 1987; Broadway, 2007; adapted to film by director Oliver Stone, 1988). He has starred in a wide variety of film, TV and stage roles. Most recently, he created the character of Captain Danny Ross on the long-running series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In 2014, TCG published 100 (monologues), a collection that commemorates thirty years of Bogosian’s solo-performance career.
]]> 112 Eric Bogosian 155936324X Jason 5 3.81 1988 Talk Radio (TCG Edition)
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]]> <![CDATA[Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead]]> 840110 80 Eric Bogosian 1559360968 Jason 5 3.82 2012 Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead
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]]> Mall 340613 Mal, a thirtysomething speed freak, shoots his mother, torches his house, and heads to the local mall with a sack of weapons and a plan for more mayhem. Danny, a voyeuristic businessman with a fetish for young underwear models, is caught by mall security peeking into dressing rooms at JCPenney. Jeff, a teenager with existential troubles, drops acid and departs on a philosophical nightmare. Donna, a hungry, unsettled housewife, is on the lookout for a one-night stand. Michel, a Haitian immigrant and mall security guard, seeks salvation. All long for a kind of satisfaction, and this longing leads them to the modern plaza of possibility, the shopping mall, where their appetites converge in explosive ways.
Satirical and provocative, Mall is an eye-opening look at suburban life and the idea of "normalcy." In this, his first novel, Eric Bogosian delivers a dark, hilarious, and biting commentary on an American culture fraught with sex, drugs, violence, and congested thinking.]]> 256 Eric Bogosian 0743214552 Jason 0 to-read 3.43 2000 Mall
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]]> Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll 602
"Greatly and bilaterally talented... spiky, stinging, caustic without cauterizing. And funny." -John Simon, New York Magazine

"Scabrously funny... a dervish of a performer, ricocheting off the walls of the male psyche." - Boston Phoenix

Eric Bogosian is one of our most innovative and provocative artists, with a unique gift for portraying the currents and idioms of contemporary society. The monologues in Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll form a composite picture of the complex, sometimes alarming state of American culture in the 1990s.

One of America’s premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists, Bogosian’s plays and solo work include suburbia (Lincoln Center Theater, 1994; adapted to film by director Richard Linklater, 1996); Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll , Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead ; Griller ; Humpty Dumpty ; 1+1 ; Skunkweed ; Wake Up and Smell the Coffee ; Drinking in America ; Notes from Underground and Talk Radio (Pulitzer Prize finalist; New York Shakespeare Festival, 1987; Broadway, 2007; adapted to film by director Oliver Stone, 1988). He has starred in a wide variety of film, TV and stage roles. Most recently, he created the character of Captain Danny Ross on the long-running series Law & Order: Criminal Intent . In 2014, TCG published 100 (monologues) , a collection that commemorates thirty years of Bogosian’s solo-performance career.]]> 136 Eric Bogosian 1559361247 Jason 5 3.82 1991 Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll
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]]> subUrbia 840109 112 Eric Bogosian 1559361018 Jason 0 to-read 3.54 1995 subUrbia
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]]> <![CDATA[The Essential Bogosian: Talk Radio / Drinking in America / Funhouse / Men Inside]]> 200984 240 Eric Bogosian 1559360828 Jason 4 3.96 1994 The Essential Bogosian: Talk Radio / Drinking in America / Funhouse / Men Inside
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]]> Good As Gold 10714 445 Joseph Heller 0684839741 Jason 0 to-read 3.39 1979 Good As Gold
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]]> God Knows 10711 368 Joseph Heller 0684841258 Jason 4 3.81 1984 God Knows
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]]> Something Happened 10718 Catch-22, which was published in 1961 and has become the most celebrated novel of its decade � speaking for and to an entire American generation. Something Happened is different from Catch-22 in both substance and tone, but it is certain to have a comparable effect.

* * *

As it opens, he "gets the willies." At the end, he has "taken command."

What happens in Something Happened happens to Bob Slocum � in his forties, contending with his office (where just about everybody is scared of somebody), trying to come to grips with his wife ("You did it," she says. "You made me this way. ..."), with his daughter (she's "unhappy"), with his son (he's "having difficulties"), and with his other son, and with his own past and his own present.

Like his own children, like all children, Slocum once was new, valuable, eagerly waiting to grow into the good life sure to come. Now he is what he is, and his life is what it is.

What happened? (What happens?)

Something.]]> 576 Joseph Heller 0684841215 Jason 4 3.54 1974 Something Happened
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]]> Catch-22 168668
Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy—it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he’s assigned, he’ll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes a formal request to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved.

This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction by Christopher Buckley; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos from Joseph Heller’s personal archive; and much more. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature.]]> 453 Joseph Heller 0684833395 Jason 5 3.99 1961 Catch-22
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]]> Nicholas Nickleby 325085 817 Charles Dickens 0140435123 Jason 4 3.92 1839 Nicholas Nickleby
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]]> Bleak House 31242
“Jarndyce and Jarndyce� is an infamous lawsuit that has been in process for generations. Nobody can remember exactly how the case started but many different individuals have found their fortunes caught up in it. Esther Summerson watches as her friends and neighbours are consumed by their hopes and disappointments with the proceedings. But while the intricate puzzles of the lawsuit are being debated by lawyers, other more dramatic mysteries are unfolding that involve heartbreak, lost children, blackmail and murder.

The fog and cold that permeate Bleak House mirror a Victorian England mired in spiritual insolvency. Dickens brought all his passion, brilliance, and narrative verve to this huge novel of lives entangled in a multi-generational lawsuit—and through it, he achieved, at age 41, a stature almost Shakespearean.]]> 1017 Charles Dickens 0143037617 Jason 0 to-read 4.01 1853 Bleak House
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]]> Oliver Twist 18254
The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

This Penguin Classics edition of Oliver Twist is the first critical edition to faithfully reproduce the text as its earliest readers would have encountered it from its serialisation in Bentley's Miscellany, and includes an introduction by Philip Horne, a glossary of Victorian thieves' slang, a chronology of Dickens's life, a map of contemporary London and all of George Cruikshank's original illustrations.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 608 Charles Dickens Jason 4 3.88 1838 Oliver Twist
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]]> <![CDATA[A Dull Roar: What I Did on My Summer Deracination 2006]]> 2597669 272 Henry Rollins 1880985799 Jason 0 to-read 3.92 2006 A Dull Roar: What I Did on My Summer Deracination 2006
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]]> <![CDATA[The Best of 2.13.61 (Henry Rollins)]]> 361995 339 Henry Rollins 1880985624 Jason 4 3.77 1998 The Best of 2.13.61 (Henry Rollins)
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]]> Bang! 2056538 Knife Street
American Hardcore
Blues Jam in the 213 Area Code
After Burn
1000 Ways to Die]]> 144 Henry Rollins 1880985039 Jason 3 3.89 1990 Bang!
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average rating: 3.89
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rating: 3
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]]> Solipsist 503490 166 Henry Rollins 1880985594 Jason 4 3.97 1998 Solipsist
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]]> Eye Scream (Henry Rollins) 522821 experiencing the morality shifts, attitudes, and rituals in different parts
of the country - the difference in the way people were in the Bible Belt as
opposed to New York City, the way blacks and whites interfaced, the
intolerance of homosexuality, the morality plays. I started to become aware
of how brutal the country is and how much ferocity, cruelty, and oppression
are inherent in the culture and how much of it was in me. I wanted to
document it and create a book that brought the whole thing to a boil and see w
here it left me off. In the summer of 1995, I finished the book and started
to edit. Re-reading the manuscript over and over, I realized all the things I
had picked up over a decade of playing Devil's advocate and it was inspiring
because it clearly defined who my enemies are. As an American, I feel it
impossible not to be infuriated by the way things are and have been. I refuse
to be happy about the day-to-day and go along with it. There's too much
spitting in my face and too much spitting in the faces of people who don't
know any other way of life. This book is brutal, and at times, funny. I know
that I will probably get a ton of shit for Eye Scream. Enjoy, or better
yet... don't." ---- Henry Rollins]]> 219 Henry Rollins 1880985322 Jason 3 3.85 1996 Eye Scream (Henry Rollins)
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]]> <![CDATA[See a Grown Man Cry, Now Watch Him Die]]> 503488 tour journal entries from 1988-1992.]]> 352 Henry Rollins 1880985373 Jason 5 4.02 1992 See a Grown Man Cry, Now Watch Him Die
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]]> <![CDATA[Smile, You're Traveling (Black Coffee Blues Part 3)]]> 503491 190 Henry Rollins 1880985691 Jason 5 4.05 2000 Smile, You're Traveling (Black Coffee Blues Part 3)
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]]> The Crossing Guard 795624 At the Two men on a collision course. John Booth, a man just released from prison, and Freddy Gale, a man so possessed by his thirst for vengeance he will stop at nothing. Not even murder.
At the Freddy's beautiful and sympathetic wife, coping in her own way with the circumstances that have ruined her marriage. And Freddy, on two separate but equally powerful journeys - one, to find out how a man in America comes to terms with irrepressible agony, and the other his manic quest to find John Booth, a man waiting with a gun.]]> 301 David Rabe 0786861193 Jason 4 3.00 1995 The Crossing Guard
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]]> <![CDATA[Hurlyburly & Those the River Keeps]]> 177902 288 David Rabe 0802133517 Jason 5 3.78 1995 Hurlyburly & Those the River Keeps
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]]> <![CDATA[Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West]]> 394535 Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.]]> 351 Cormac McCarthy Jason 5 4.18 1985 Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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]]> No Country for Old Men 12497 Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN 9780375706677

In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, the setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones.

One day, Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law–in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell–can contain.

As Moss tries to evade his pursuers–in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives–McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines.
No Country for Old Men is a triumph.]]> 309 Cormac McCarthy Jason 5 4.15 2005 No Country for Old Men
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]]> The Road 6288
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,� are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.]]> 241 Cormac McCarthy 0307265439 Jason 0 to-read 3.99 2006 The Road
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]]> Mercy Among the Children 151381 384 David Adams Richards 0743448189 Jason 2 3.82 2000 Mercy Among the Children
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]]> <![CDATA[Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11]]> 7820 Fixed Ideas Joan Didion describes how, since September 11, 2001, there has been a determined effort by the administration to promote an imperial America--a "New Unilateralism"--and how, in many parts of America, there is now a "disconnect" between the government and citizens.

"[Americans] recognized even then [immediately after 9/11], with flames still visible in lower Manhattan, that the words 'bipartisanship' and 'national unity' had come to mean acquiescence to the administration's preexisting agenda--for example the imperative for further tax cuts, the necessity for Arctic drilling, the systematic elimination of regulatory and union protections, even the funding for the missile shield."

Frank Rich in his preface notes: "The reassuring point of the fixed ideas was to suppress other ideas that might prompt questions or fears about either the logic or hidden political agendas of those conducting what CNN branded as 'America's New War.'"

He adds, "This White House is famously secretive and on-message, but its skills go beyond that. It knows the power of narrative, especially a single narrative with clear-cut heroes and evildoers, and it knows how to drown out any distracting subplots before they undermine the main story."

Book and cover design by Milton Glaser, Inc.]]> 44 Joan Didion 1590170733 Jason 4 3.97 2003 Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11
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]]> The Last Thing He Wanted 513180
The narrator introduces Elena McMahon, estranged from a life of celebrity fundraisers and from her powerful West Coast husband, Wynn Janklow, whom she has left, taking Catherine, her daughter, to become a reporter for The Washington Post . She finds herself boarding a plane for Florida to see her father. She becomes embroiled in her his business even though "she had trained herself since childhood not to have any interest in what he was doing." It is from this moment that she is caught up in something much larger than she could have imagined.

Didion makes connections among Dallas, Iran-Contra, and Castro, and points out how "spectral companies with high-concept names tended to interlock." As this book builds to its terrifying finish, we see the underpinnings of a dark historical underbelly.]]> 240 Joan Didion Jason 5 3.45 The Last Thing He Wanted
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]]> After Henry 7830 After Henry is further proof of Joan Didion's infallible radar for the true spirit of our age.]]> 320 Joan Didion Jason 1 3.82 1992 After Henry
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]]> Salvador 7823 112 Joan Didion Jason 0 to-read 3.74 1983 Salvador
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]]> Play It As It Lays 428 Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil - literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul - it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.
]]> 231 Joan Didion 0374529949 Jason 4 3.94 1970 Play It As It Lays
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]]> Dispatches 4339 Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977.

From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time.

Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature.]]> 260 Michael Herr 0679735259 Jason 4 4.22 1977 Dispatches
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]]> Dog Soldiers 380364 Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers—and the price of survival was dangerously high.]]> 342 Robert Stone 0395860253 Jason 5 3.71 1974 Dog Soldiers
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]]> Black Spring 51089 243 Henry Miller 0802131824 Jason 3 3.86 1936 Black Spring
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]]> Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1) 249 Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller’s famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s. Tropic of Cancer is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, "one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century."]]> 318 Henry Miller 0802131786 Jason 4 3.69 1934 Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
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]]> The Dead 23289 100 James Joyce Jason 5 4.03 1914 The Dead
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]]> Finnegans Wake 11013
Written in a fantastic dream-language, forged from polyglot puns and portmanteau words, the Wake features some of Joyce's most hilarious characters: the Irish barkeep Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, Shem the Penman, Shaun the Postman, and Anna Livia Plurabelle.

Joyce's final work, Finnegan's Wake is his masterpiece of the night as Ulysses is of the day. Supreme linguistic virtuosity conjures up the dark underground worlds of sexuality and dream. Joyce undermines traditional storytelling and all official forms of English and confronts the different kinds of betrayal - cultural, political and sexual - that he saw at the heart of Irish history. Dazzlingly inventive, with passages of great lyrical beauty and humour, Finnegans Wake remains one of the most remarkable works of the twentieth century.]]> 628 James Joyce 0571217354 Jason 0 to-read 3.66 1939 Finnegans Wake
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]]> Ulysses: The Corrected Text 2175098

From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> 650 James Joyce 039455373X Jason 0 to-read 3.65 1922 Ulysses: The Corrected Text
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]]> Dubliners 11012 I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne.' James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else, including two entire stories. Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would 'retard the course of civilisation in Ireland'.

Joyce's aim was to tell the truth � to create a work of art that would reflect life in Ireland at the turn of the last century and by rejecting euphemism, reveal to the Irish the unromantic reality the recognition of which would lead to the spiritual liberation of the country.

Each of the fifteen stories offers a glimpse of the lives of ordinary Dubliners � a death, an encounter, an opportunity not taken, a memory rekindled � and collectively they paint a portrait of a nation.]]> 352 James Joyce Jason 5 3.86 1914 Dubliners
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]]> Poor Folk 67326
Inspired by the works of Gogol, Pushkin, and Karamzin, as well as English and French authors, Poor Folk is written in the form of letters between the two main characters, Makar Devushkin and Varvara Dobroselova, who are poor third cousins twice removed. The novel showcases the life of poor people, their relationship with rich people, and poverty in general, all common themes of literary naturalism. A deep but odd friendship develops between them until Dobroselova loses her interest in literature, and later in communicating with Devushkin after a rich widower Mr. Bykov proposes to her. Devushkin, a prototype of the clerk found in many works of naturalistic literature at that time, retains his sentimental characteristics; Dobroselova abandons art, while Devushkin cannot live without literature.

Contemporary critics lauded Poor Folk for its humanitarian themes. While Vissarion Belinsky dubbed the novel Russia's first "social novel" and Alexander Herzen called it a major socialist work, other critics detected parody and satire. The novel uses a complicated polyphony of voices from different perspectives and narrators. Initially offered by Dostoyevsky to the liberal-leaning magazine Fatherland Notes, the novel was published in the almanac, St. Petersburg Collection, on January 15, 1846. It became a huge success nationwide. Parts of it were translated into German by Wilhelm Wolfsohn and published in an 1846/1847 magazine. The first English translation was provided by Lena Milman in 1894, with an introduction by George Moore, cover art design by Aubrey Beardsley, and publication by London's Mathews and Lane.]]> 167 Fyodor Dostoevsky 1592244319 Jason 0 to-read 3.77 1846 Poor Folk
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]]> <![CDATA[The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky]]> 12852 White Nights, an archetypal nineteenth-century morality tale of pathos and loss, to the famous Notes from the Underground, a story of guilt, ineffectiveness, and uncompromising cynicism, and the first major work of existential literature. Among Dostoevsky's prototypical characters is Yemelyan in The Honest Thief, whose tragedy turns on an inability to resist crime. Presented in chronological order, in David Magarshack's celebrated translation, this is the definitive edition of Dostoevsky's best stories.
]]> 320 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0375756884 Jason 3 4.25 1877 The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
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]]> The Gambler 12857 The Gambler, Dostoevsky reaches the heights of drama with this stunning psychological portrait.]]> 188 Fyodor Dostoevsky Jason 5 3.95 1866 The Gambler
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]]> Demons 5695 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512)

Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.]]> 733 Fyodor Dostoevsky Jason 0 to-read 4.31 1872 Demons
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