Ben's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 28 Oct 2024 12:37:25 -0700 60 Ben's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh, #2)]]> 776407 180 A.A. Milne 0525444440 Ben 4 4.37 1928 The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh, #2)
author: A.A. Milne
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]]> <![CDATA[Liner Notes: On Parents & Children, Exes & Excess, Death & Decay, & a Few of My Other Favorite Things]]> 35086053 Life magazine columnist Loudon Wainwright, Jr., is the patriarch of one of America’s great musical families. He is the former husband of Kate McGarrigle and Suzzy Roche, and father of Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Lucy Wainwright Roche, and Lexie Kelly Wainwright. With a career spanning more than four decades, Wainwright has established himself as one of the most enduring singer-songwriters who emerged from the late 1960s. Not only does he perform regularly across America and in Europe, but he is a sought-after actor, having appeared in many movies and TV series.

There is probably no singer-songwriter who has so blatantly inserted himself into his songs. The songs can be laugh-out-loud funny, but they also can cut to the bone. In this memoir, Wainwright details the family history his lyrics have referenced and the fractured relationships among the alcoholism, the infidelities, the competitiveness—as well as the closeness, the successes, and the joy. Wainwright reflects on the experiences that have influenced his work, including boarding school, the music business, swimming, macrobiotics, sex, incarceration, and something he calls Sir Walter Raleigh Syndrome.

Wainwright writes poignantly about being a son—a status that dominates many of his songs—but also about being a parent, a brother, and a grandfather. His lyrics are featured throughout the book, amplifying his prose and showing the connections between the songs and real life. Wainwright also includes selections from his father’s brilliant Life magazine columns—and, in so doing, reestablishes his father as a major essayist of his era. A funny and insightful meditation on family, inspiration, and art, Liner Notes will thrill fans, readers, and anyone who appreciates the intersection of music and life.]]> 318 Loudon Wainwright III 0698413083 Ben 0 to-read 3.76 Liner Notes: On Parents & Children, Exes & Excess, Death & Decay, & a Few of My Other Favorite Things
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]]> <![CDATA[Licensed To Revolt: The Journals of Twisps on the Move (Youth in Revolt)]]> 41791745 252 C.D. Payne 1882647300 Ben 4 4.60 2018 Licensed To Revolt: The Journals of Twisps on the Move (Youth in Revolt)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories]]> 99300
Written from a feminist perspective, often focusing on the inferior status accorded to women by society, the tales include "turned," an ironic story with a startling twist, in which a husband seduces and impregnates a naĂŻve servant; "Cottagette," concerning the romance of a young artist and a man who's apparently too good to be true; "Mr. Peebles' Heart," a liberating tale of a fiftyish shopkeeper whose sister-in-law, a doctor, persuades him to take a solo trip to Europe, with revivifying results; "The Yellow Wallpaper"; and three other outstanding stories.

These charming tales are not only highly readable and full of humor and invention, but also offer ample food for thought about the social, economic, and personal relationship of men and women � and how they might be improved.

Collects:
—The Yellow Wallpaper
—Three Thanksgivings
—The Cottagette
—TłÜ°ů˛Ô±đ»ĺ
—Making a Change
—If I Were a Man
—Mr. Peebles' Heart]]> 129 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 0486298574 Ben 4 4.05 1892 The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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average rating: 4.05
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]]> <![CDATA[Around the World in Eighty Days]]> 54479 252 Jules Verne 014044906X Ben 0 to-read 3.95 1872 Around the World in Eighty Days
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average rating: 3.95
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]]> Kaputt in der City 1738267 156 Charles Bukowski 3551722633 Ben 4 3.66 1972 Kaputt in der City
author: Charles Bukowski
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average rating: 3.66
book published: 1972
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Fillerbunny #1 in I Fill Up 15 Pages]]> 2378321 16 Jhonen Vásquez 159362106X Ben 0 to-read 3.80 1999 Fillerbunny #1 in I Fill Up 15 Pages
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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 Ben 0 to-read 3.98 1962 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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]]> <![CDATA[The Labyrinth of the Comic: Theory and Practice from Fielding to Freud]]> 1184550 Richard Keller Simon 081300831X Ben 0 to-read 0.0 1986 The Labyrinth of the Comic: Theory and Practice from Fielding to Freud
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]]> Full of Life 177049 John deals with Joyce's shifting emotional moods, her growing interest in Roman Catholicism (from which John himself has fallen away), and termite infestation in the house. All of this is further complicated by John's problematic relationship with his father Nick, a retired bricklayer who isn't shy about sharing his own strong opinions about family life.]]> 161 John Fante 0876857187 Ben 3 4.10 1952 Full of Life
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]]> <![CDATA[Dude: The Big Book of Zonker (Doonesbury 26)]]> 20521415 A puddle-plumbing denizen of Walden Commune, Harris spent his formative years as a bodaciously freaked-out college student. His innovative decoding of the rites and rituals of the burgeoning counterculture put him on the cover of Time. Forced by a strategic oversight to graduate from college, Harris blazed a path to glory on the pro tanning circuit. His triumph in the George Hamilton Cocoa-Butter Open set a high watermark for the sport.

Family values led Harris to devote considerable time to helping his stunned parents refill their empty nest. Extended-family values propelled him into a career as a professional nanny, in which capacity he has indeed taught the children well-especially Sam, who was surfing the long board while still in diapers. Later, leveraging his political cluelessness, Zonker served on the disastrous Duke2000 presidential campaign. A devoted foot soldier in the war against AIDS suffering, Zonk is held in high regard among SoCal's medical marijuana community for the efficacious potency of his magic brownies. Unfazed by worldly success, he remains a true and gentle freak. "After all," he humbly notes, "I am but one dude."

]]> 288 G.B. Trudeau 1449430317 Ben 0 to-read 4.64 2005 Dude: The Big Book of Zonker (Doonesbury 26)
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]]> Johnny's in the Basement 285925 126 Louis Sachar Ben 0 to-read 3.49 1981 Johnny's in the Basement
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]]> Son of Satan 30366908 Charles Bukowski Ben 4 3.42 Son of Satan
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]]> Tracy Flick Can't Win 58977852
“Tom Perrotta is…one of the great writers that we have today. I love this book.� —Harlan Coben

An “engrossing and mordantly funny� ( People ) novel about ambition, coming-of-age in adulthood, and never really leaving high school politics behind—featuring New York Times bestselling author Tom Perrotta’s most iconic character of all time.

Tracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and underappreciated in midlife, Tracy gets a jolt of good news when the longtime principal, Jack Weede, abruptly announces his retirement, creating a rare opportunity for Tracy to ascend to the top job.

Energized by the prospect of her long-overdue promotion, Tracy throws herself into her work with renewed zeal, determined to prove her worth to the students, faculty, and School Board, while also managing her personal life—a ten-year-old daughter, a needy doctor boyfriend, and a burgeoning meditation practice.

But nothing ever comes easily to Tracy Flick, no matter how diligent or qualified she happens to be. Her male colleagues� determination to honor Vito Falcone—a star quarterback of dubious character who had a brief, undistinguished career in the NFL—triggers memories for Tracy and leads her to reflect on the trajectory of her own life. As she considers the past, Tracy becomes aware of storm clouds brewing in the present. Is she really a shoo-in for the principal job? Is the Superintendent plotting against her? Why is the School Board President’s wife trying so hard to be her friend? And why can’t she ever get what she deserves?

A sharp, darkly comic, and pitch-perfect chronicle of the second act of one of the most memorable characters of our time, Tracy Flick Can’t Win “delivers acerbic insight about frustrated ambition� ( Esquire ).]]> 259 Tom Perrotta 1501144065 Ben 0 to-read 3.55 2022 Tracy Flick Can't Win
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]]> The Colossus of Maroussi 246 244 Henry Miller 0811201090 Ben 0 to-read 4.00 1941 The Colossus of Maroussi
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average rating: 4.00
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]]> <![CDATA[On Subbing: The First Four Years (Real World)]]> 291130 128 Dave Roche 097269675X Ben 4 4.03 2004 On Subbing: The First Four Years (Real World)
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average rating: 4.03
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Uncollected Stories]]> 128616
This book contains twenty short stories and two novellas that have never before been collected or published outside of their original magazine appearences due to the wishes of the author who has declined to publish any of his work since 1965. Stories collected here for the first time include two 30,000 word novellas (The Inverted Forest & Hapworth 16, 1924), two stories featuring Holden Caulfield in expanded scenes from The Catcher in the Rye (I'm Crazy & Slight Rebellion Off Madison), and the Babe Gladwaller and Vincent Caulfield series (Last Day of the Last Furlough, This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise & The Stranger). This collection includes all known works by Salinger not already widely available.]]> 245 J.D. Salinger Ben 0 to-read 4.28 1974 The Complete Uncollected Stories
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average rating: 4.28
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]]> <![CDATA[Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders: Characters & Quotes]]> 55639793 46 Lumaca's Travel Ben 0 to-read 0.0 Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders: Characters & Quotes
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]]> More Noise, Please ! 1717135 184 Steven "Jesse" Bernstein 0939306093 Ben 0 to-read 4.49 1991 More Noise, Please !
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average rating: 4.49
book published: 1991
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]]> The Soul Bird 1260217 48 Michal Snunit 0786865199 Ben 4 4.27 1985 The Soul Bird
author: Michal Snunit
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average rating: 4.27
book published: 1985
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954]]> 46971 Windblown World, distinguished Americanist Douglas Brinkley has gathered a selection of journal entries from the most pivotal period of Kerouac’s life, 1947 to 1954. Here is Kerouac as a hungry young writer finishing his first novel while forging crucial friendships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. Truly a self-portrait of the artist as a young man, this unique and indispensable volume is sure to become an integral element of the Beat oeuvre.]]> 480 Jack Kerouac 0143036068 Ben 0 to-read 4.22 1947 Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954
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average rating: 4.22
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]]> My Name Is Asher Lev 11507 This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9781400031047.

Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day, and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels, even when it leads him to blasphemy. In this stirring and often visionary novel, Chaim Potok traces Asher’s passage between these two identities, the one consecrated to God, the other subject only to the imagination.

Asher Lev grows up in a cloistered Hasidic community in postwar Brooklyn, a world suffused by ritual and revolving around a charismatic Rebbe. But in time, his gift threatens to estrange him from that world and the parents he adores. As it follows his struggle, My Name Is Asher Lev becomes a luminous portrait of the artist, by turns heartbreaking and exultant, a modern classic.]]> 369 Chaim Potok Ben 4 4.23 1972 My Name Is Asher Lev
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average rating: 4.23
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear]]> 236
This edition, illustrated by the author, contains all the verse and stories of the Book of Nonsense, More Nonsense, Nonsense Songs, Nonsense Stories, Nonsense Alphabets and Nonsense Cookery. It has a biographical Preface by Lear himself, and concludes with some delightful 'heraldic' sketches of his cat, Foss.]]> 287 Edward Lear 089190090X Ben 2 4.09 1895 The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear
author: Edward Lear
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average rating: 4.09
book published: 1895
rating: 2
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]]> The Hypnotiser 2930272 176 Michael Rosen 0006732615 Ben 0 to-read 4.16 1988 The Hypnotiser
author: Michael Rosen
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average rating: 4.16
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]]> Michael Rosen's Sad Book 300961
Sometimes I'm sad and I don’t know why.
It's just a cloud that comes along and covers me up.

Sad things happen to everyone, and sometimes people feel sad for no reason at all. What makes Michael Rosen sad is thinking about his son, Eddie, who died suddenly at the age of eighteen. In this book the author writes about his sadness, how it affects him, and some of the things he does to cope with it � like telling himself that everyone has sad stuff (not just him) and trying every day to do something he can be proud of. Expressively illustrated by the extraordinary Quentin Blake, this is a very personal story that speaks to everyone, from children to parents to grandparents, teachers to grief counselors. Whether or not you have known what it's like to feel deeply sad, the truth of this book will surely touch you.]]> 32 Michael Rosen 0763625973 Ben 4 4.48 2004 Michael Rosen's Sad Book
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]]> <![CDATA[Fishing for Fun and to Wash Your Soul]]> 3814474 86 Herbert Hoover Ben 0 to-read 3.70 1963 Fishing for Fun and to Wash Your Soul
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]]> <![CDATA[Wealth Through Leisure: The Recumbent Journals of Nick Twisp II (Nick Twisp Youth in Revolt Book 14)]]> 60869636 248 C. Payne Ben 4 4.36 Wealth Through Leisure: The Recumbent Journals of Nick Twisp II (Nick Twisp Youth in Revolt Book 14)
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]]> Devil House 57693663
Now, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success--and movie adaptation--to his name, along with a series of subsequent lesser efforts that have paid the bills but not much more. But now he is being offered the chance for the big break: To move into the house--what the locals call "The Devil House"--in which a briefly notorious pair of murders occurred, apparently the work of disaffected 1980s teens. He begins his research with diligence and enthusiasm, but soon the story leads him into a puzzle he never expected--back into his own work and what it means, back to the very core of what he does and who he is.]]> 403 John Darnielle 0374212236 Ben 0 to-read 3.21 2022 Devil House
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]]> <![CDATA[Revolting Narcissists: The Viral Journals of Nick Twisp II (Nick Twisp Youth in Revolt Book 13)]]> 60093790 ]]> 254 C.D. Payne Ben 3 4.11 Revolting Narcissists: The Viral Journals of Nick Twisp II (Nick Twisp Youth in Revolt Book 13)
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]]> Me of Little Faith 2797291 why?

These are the thorny questions that Lewis Black, the bitingly funny comedian, social critic, and bestselling author, tackles in his new book, Me of Little Faith. And he's come up with some answers. Or at least his answers. In more than two dozen essays that investigate everything from the differences between how Christians and Jews celebrate their holidays, to the politics of faith, to people's individual search for transcendence, Black explores his unique odyssey through religion and belief.

Growing up as a nonpracticing Jewish kid near Washington, D.C., during the 1950s, Black survived Hebrew school andĚýa bar mitzvah (barely), went to college in the South during the tumultuous 1960s, and witnessed firsthand the unsettling parallels between religious rapture and drug-induced visions (even if none of his friends did). He explored the self-actualization movements of the 1970s (and the self-indulgence that they produced), and since then has turnedĚýan increasingly skeptical eye toward the politicians and televangelists who donĚýthe cloak of religiouos rectitude to mask their own moral hypocrisy.

What he learned along the way about the inconsistencies and peculiarities of religion infuriated Black, and in Me of Little Faith he gives full vent to his comedic rage. Black explores how the rules and constraints of religion have affected his life and the lives of us all. Hilarious experiences with rabbis, Mormons, gurus, psychics, and even the joy of a perfect round of golf give Black the chance to expound upon what we believe and why—in the language of a shock jock and with the heart of an iconoclast.

"To put it as simply as I can," Black writes, "this is a book about my relationship with religion, where my—dare I say it?—spiritual journey has taken me...what it's meant and not meant to me, and why it makes me laugh." By the end of Me of Little Faith, you'll be a convert.]]> 256 Lewis Black 1594489947 Ben 0 to-read 3.56 2008 Me of Little Faith
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]]> <![CDATA[Patti Smith at the Minetta Lane: Words and Music]]> 43402057 Patti Smith Ben 0 to-read 3.98 2018 Patti Smith at the Minetta Lane: Words and Music
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]]> <![CDATA[Hybrid Magic (The Hybrid Magic Chronicles, #1)]]> 57907946
Magic isn’t uncommon in the Deravine Commonwealth, where people can be gifted with the faculties of combat, healing, transformation, or sight. Yet as a hybrid mage, Aaron Ztrong’s abilities aren’t so easily categorized. He managed to save his parents during a dangerous confrontation when he was only a young boy, and now a decade later most people in his life expect him to do remarkable things with his powers. Then there are those who fear what Aaron and others like him can do. When Aaron’s life is threatened by a group calling themselves the Defenders, he takes refuge with two other hybrid mages and the teacher who is training them to enhance their abilities. As the Defenders continue to hunt down hybrid mages, Aaron and his new companions must find a way to survive.]]> 227 Cristy L. Bowlin Ben 0 to-read 4.53 2021 Hybrid Magic (The Hybrid Magic Chronicles, #1)
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]]> A Loser Is... 45175534 32 Charlie Manna Ben 3 3.00 A Loser Is...
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]]> A New Low 32191910 128 Johnny Ryan 1683960041 Ben 0 to-read 3.51 A New Low
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]]> Young Pillars 1628664 64 Charles M. Schulz 0871620294 Ben 3 3.31 1958 Young Pillars
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average rating: 3.31
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]]> No Kaddish for Weinstein 49242161 Woody Allen Ben 2 3.50 No Kaddish for Weinstein
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]]> Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 55922484
RICK DALTON � Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick’s a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it?

CLIFF BOOTH � Rick’s stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because he’s the only one there who might have gotten away with murder. . . .

SHARON TATE � She left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. Sharon’s salad days are now spent on Cielo Drive, high in the Hollywood Hills.

CHARLES MANSON â€� The ex-con’s got a bunch of zonked-out hippies thinking he’s their spiritual leader, but he’d trade it all to be a rock â€nâ€� roll star.

HOLLYWOOD 1969 � YOU SHOULDA BEEN THERE]]> 400 Quentin Tarantino 0063112523 Ben 0 to-read 3.86 2021 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
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]]> <![CDATA[For Whom the Cowbell Tolls: 25 Years of Paul's Boutique (66 & 2/3 Book 2)]]> 22853375
The follow-up to LeRoy’s acclaimed 33 1/3 series volume about Paul’s Boutique, this all-new book is crammed with deep research and fresh information. Released on 6623 Press’s creator-owned 66 & 2/3 imprint, it’s a stunning new chapter in Beastie scholarship � and archaeology � that might just startle the band themselves.

Learn about the freshly unearthed outtakes from Paul’s Boutique—including the album’s great lost single. Get a behind-the-scenes look at Capitol Records� fateful decision to sign the Beasties and its controversial aftermath, featuring new interviews with all the top label executives. Take a look at forgotten, freshly unearthed Beastie artifacts.

Then dig into the “Boutique Bouillabaisse,� a multi-part tribute to the album’s famous closing medley, jam-packed with inside information. Watch rap's densest lyric sheet take shape in pictures of notebook pages jotted during the Paul’s Boutique sessions. Go track-by-track through a rare Mike D mixtape that influenced the album’s prescient retro sound. Meet the hip-hop duo nobody knows, who inspired Adam Yauch. Find out how three DJs reconstructed Paul’s Boutique, sample by sample. Learn more about characters like Beastie “trim coordinator� Dave Scilken. With many more funky exclusives, this one-of-a-kind book includes 36 photos and three illustrations from artist Jim Mahfood's 2007 Beastie Boys graphic novel Ask For Janice.

For Whom the Cowbell Tolls: 25 Years of Paul’s Boutique is guaranteed to make you as smart as when “Galileo dropped the orange�!

Dan LeRoy is the author of a book about Paul’s Boutique for Continuum’s 33 1/3 series, and The Greatest Music Never Sold: Secrets of Legendary Lost Albums. He has written about music and politics for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Alternative Press and National Review Online. He lives near Pittsburgh.

Peter Relic is a Los Angeles writer whose work has appeared in Da Capo’s Best Music Writing anthology, as well as Rolling Stone, Vibe, XXL and Mass Appeal. He is currently writing a book about the history of the iconic label Delicious Vinyl.

Paperback available August 2014.

Learn more at , , @DanLeRoy and @6623Press.]]> 217 Dan LeRoy Ben 0 to-read 3.97 2014 For Whom the Cowbell Tolls: 25 Years of Paul's Boutique (66 & 2/3 Book 2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Outlaw Bible of American Literature]]> 319342 920 Alan Kaufman 1560255501 Ben 4 4.32 2004 The Outlaw Bible of American Literature
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]]> <![CDATA[Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness]]> 53404242 Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma—from the eighteenth century, through America’s major wars, and into today’s high-tech economy.

Grinker infuses the book with the personal history of his family’s four generations of involvement in psychiatry, including his grandfather’s analysis with Sigmund Freud, his own daughter’s experience with autism, and culminating in his research on neurodiversity. Drawing on cutting-edge science, historical archives, and cross-cultural research in Africa and Asia, Nobody’s Normal explains how we are transforming mental illness and offers a path to end the shadow of stigma. The preeminent historian of medicine, Sander Gilman, calls Nobody’s Normal “the most important work on stigma in more than half a century.”]]> 448 Roy Richard Grinker 0393531643 Ben 4 4.00 2021 Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
author: Roy Richard Grinker
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average rating: 4.00
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rating: 4
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]]> Green Day Treasures 15955671
Treasures of Green Day tells the story of this superb band through the insightful words of long-time Green Day expert and journalist Gillian G. Gaar, exciting photographs from some of rock 'n' roll's best photographers, and rare facsimile memorabilia that includes tickets, posters, passes, and more.]]> 64 Gillian G. Gaar 1780971052 Ben 0 to-read 4.40 2012 Green Day Treasures
author: Gillian G. Gaar
name: Ben
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> Philip Roth: The Biography 53404228
Appointed by Philip Roth and granted independence and complete access, Blake Bailey spent yearsĚýporing overĚýRoth’sĚýpersonal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid conversations. The result is an indelible portrait of an American master and of the postwar literary scene.

BaileyĚýshowsĚýhow Roth emerged from a lower-middle-class Jewish milieu to achieve the heights of literary fame, how his career was nearly derailed by his catastrophic first marriage, and how he championed the work of dissident novelists behind the Iron Curtain. BaileyĚýexaminesĚýRoth’s rivalrous friendships with Saul Bellow, John Updike, and William Styron, and reveals the truths of his florid love life, culminating in hisĚýalmost-twenty-yearĚýrelationship with actress Claire Bloom,Ěýwho pilloried Roth in her 1996 memoir,ĚýLeaving a Doll's House. Tracing Roth’s path from realism to farce to metafiction to the tragic masterpieces of the American Trilogy, Bailey explores Roth’s engagement with nearly every aspect of postwar American culture.]]> 912 Blake Bailey 039324072X Ben 0 to-read 3.98 2021 Philip Roth: The Biography
author: Blake Bailey
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average rating: 3.98
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]]> Is This Anything? 50722115 The first book in twenty-five years from Jerry Seinfeld features his best work across five decades in comedy.

Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub “Catch a Rising Star� as a twenty-one-year-old college student in fall of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and saved everything. “Whenever I came up with a funny bit, whether it happened on a stage, in a conversation, or working it out on my preferred canvas, the big yellow legal pad, I kept it in one of those old school accordion folders,� Seinfeld writes. “So I have everything I thought was worth saving from forty-five years of hacking away at this for all I was worth.�

For this book, Jerry Seinfeld has selected his favorite material, organized decade by decade. In page after hilarious page, one brilliantly crafted observation after another, readers will witness the evolution of one of the great comedians of our time and gain new insights into the thrilling but unforgiving art of writing stand-up comedy.]]> 480 Jerry Seinfeld 1982112697 Ben 0 to-read 3.71 2020 Is This Anything?
author: Jerry Seinfeld
name: Ben
average rating: 3.71
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]]> <![CDATA[Skywriting by Word of Mouth and Other Writings]]> 233922 208 John Lennon 0060914440 Ben 0 to-read 3.74 1986 Skywriting by Word of Mouth and Other Writings
author: John Lennon
name: Ben
average rating: 3.74
book published: 1986
rating: 0
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]]> Dr Katz's Me at a Glance 1488608 IF FOUND PLEASE RETURN TO


DR. JONATHAN KATZ


PROFESSIONAL THERAPIST


To whom it may concern:


This organizer is the property of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist. Regardless of how it may have
come into your possession, I would greatly appreciate your self-control in not opening it and poring
over its contents. That would be like going through your grown son's backpack or steaming open your
ex-wife's unforwarded mail, to name two completely fictional examples I've made up off the top of my
head. I mean, a person often carries things in his organizer that are not meant for public viewing.
Like:


The rejection letter from Opera News for my proposed article, "Are the Three Tenors Codependent?"


Some of the songs I've written for my folk-rock group, Katz and Jammers. I'm especially proud of
"Johnny Talltree, Mining Man." You'll smell the sweat!


The menu for the coffee bar I want to open when I retire. Jonathan's Big-Bite Biscotti, anyone?


Some notes for my self-help book, Stop Hurting Your Own Feelings!


A traffic ticket received by someone who apparently took my car for a "joyride." Someone who looks
a lot like my son, Ben.


An invitation to an art show by one of my patients, "Fifty Ways to Kill Your Therapist."


A list of potential careers for my son, Ben. I can dream, Can't I?


So you can see why it's very important that should you find this book, you do not read it .
Please do not take it home and go through every paragraph, laughing your head off, highlighting the items you find funniest,
calling your friends to read them the juicy parts. And Ben, if you should happen to find
this book, well, I think I understand your feelings. And we can talk about it son. Okay?


Dr. Jonathan Katz

]]> 96 Glenn Eichler 0671003186 Ben 4 4.00 1996 Dr Katz's Me at a Glance
author: Glenn Eichler
name: Ben
average rating: 4.00
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rating: 4
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]]> Grand Gestures 7151285 48 Robert Ullman 1891867288 Ben 4 4.00 2003 Grand Gestures
author: Robert Ullman
name: Ben
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2003
rating: 4
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]]> Blue Movie 438185 256 Terry Southern 0747530971 Ben 0 to-read 3.59 1970 Blue Movie
author: Terry Southern
name: Ben
average rating: 3.59
book published: 1970
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Napoleon Dynamite: Impeach Pedro]]> 52440984 The cult classic comedy returns in this graphic novel! Senior year is gonna be flippin' sweet!

Napoleon is dating Deb, training at a new dojo, and his best friend, Pedro, is student body president. But the good times might not last when a fellow student accuses Pedro of cheating in the election. Can Napoleon and Deb use their special skills to clear their friend before the principal can IMPEACH PEDRO? Maybe, gosh, get off his back!]]> 96 Carlos Guzman-Verdugo 1684056373 Ben 0 to-read 3.46 2020 Napoleon Dynamite: Impeach Pedro
author: Carlos Guzman-Verdugo
name: Ben
average rating: 3.46
book published: 2020
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]]> I Love You, Beth Cooper 378579
"I love you, Beth Cooper."

It would have been such a sweet, romantic moment. Except that:

Beth, the head cheerleader, has only the vaguest idea who Denis is.

And Denis, the captain of the debate team, is so far out of her league he is barely even the same species.

And then there's Kevin, Beth's remarkably large boyfriend, in town on furlough from the United States Army.

Complications ensue.

Denis comes of age overnight in this exhilar-ating, endearing novel that reminds us why we can't wait to escape high school but can never leave it behind.]]> 253 Larry Doyle 0061236179 Ben 4 3.30 2007 I Love You, Beth Cooper
author: Larry Doyle
name: Ben
average rating: 3.30
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[My So-Called Life Goes On (Angela Chase, #2)]]> 501785
Some things never change... some things do.

It's proving to be a long, hot summer for Angela Chase and her friends. Angela's back with Jordan -- sort of -- and working at her dad's restaurant. Brian's still in love with Angela, still searching for Delia Fisher, and mesmerized by an older woman. Rickie's in love, too, for the very first time. Sharon breaks her vow to ditch Kyle and suffers the consequences. Rayanne gets hired and fired from a series of crazy jobs -- but she has something a lot more important on her mind. This summer seems interminable. Or maybe terminal...]]> 212 Catherine Clark 0375801111 Ben 0 to-read 3.51 1997 My So-Called Life Goes On (Angela Chase, #2)
author: Catherine Clark
name: Ben
average rating: 3.51
book published: 1997
rating: 0
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]]> Wet Hot American Summer 38749157 It’s time to shut up and return to Camp Firewood in the first-ever, all-new original graphic novel for the beloved, cult classic, Wet Hot American Summer. To tell you all about it, here’s Camp Director Beth.
Ěý
“Well guys, we made it through the first week of camp in one piece . . . except for a few campers who now are lepers. Anyway, so I gave the Camp Firewood counselors the night off to head into town to do whatever it is teenagers do and some old coot—excuse me, old sea hag whore face—called the fuzz, which led to a surprise camp inspection! Not only did they find out that we have a kid who doesn’t shower but apparently the entire camp isn’t up to code! Now we have 24 hours to clean up our act or they’re going to shut down Camp Firewood. Luckily, I have the best counselors in the whole wide world…wait, where are those little jackasses…in town still?! We are so screwed...�

There you go! Join Beth, Coop, Katie, Andy, Susie, Gene, Nancy, Victor, Ben, McKinley, J.J., Gary, Gail, and probably some other people in this unforgettably tender story of camp spirit and spreading mud on your ass written by the hilarious, deliciously irreverent Christopher Hastings (Deadpool) and illustrated by artistic dungeon master Noah Hayes (Goldie Vance). What are you waiting for? Go read it.]]> 144 Christopher Hastings 1684152143 Ben 0 to-read 3.49 2018 Wet Hot American Summer
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]]> The Flame 37941942 The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers an unprecedentedly intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist.

A reckoning with a life lived deeply and passionately, with wit and panache, The Flame is a valedictory work.

“This volume contains my father’s final efforts as a poet,� writes Cohen’s son, Adam Cohen, in his foreword. “It was what he was staying alive to do, his sole breathing purpose at the end.�

Leonard Cohen died in late 2016. But “each page of paper that he blackened,� in the words of his son, “was lasting evidence of a burning soul.”]]> 277 Leonard Cohen 0374156069 Ben 0 to-read 4.06 2018 The Flame
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name: Ben
average rating: 4.06
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]]> Anna Karenin 226379 With Anna Karenin, the psychological novel of the nineteenth century reached its peak.

Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, Anna Karenin provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. In it Tolstoy uses his intense imaginative insight to create some of the most memorable characters in literature. Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as the wife of Karenin and turns to Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature - with tragic consequences. Levin is a reflection of Tolstoy himself, often expressing the author's own views and convictions.

Throughout, Tolstoy points no moral, merely inviting us not to judge but to watch. As Rosemary Edmonds comments, 'He leaves the shifting patterns of the kaleidoscope to bring home the meaning of the brooding words following the title, "Vengeance is mine, and I will repay."'

Anna Karenin was published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with editor Mikhail Katkov over political issues that arose in the final installment (Tolstoy's unpopular views of volunteers going to Serbia); therefore, the novel's first complete appearance was in book form in 1878.]]> 853 Leo Tolstoy Ben 0 to-read 4.18 1878 Anna Karenin
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name: Ben
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1878
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]]> <![CDATA[Revolting Times: The Pandemic Journals of Nick Twisp II (Nick Twisp Youth in Revolt Book 12)]]> 55576796 254 C.D. Payne Ben 5 4.31 Revolting Times: The Pandemic Journals of Nick Twisp II (Nick Twisp Youth in Revolt Book 12)
author: C.D. Payne
name: Ben
average rating: 4.31
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[100 Things The Simpsons Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die (100 Things...Fans Should Know)]]> 39090894
100 Things The Simpsons Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the ultimate resource for true fans, whether you read at a Ralph Wiggum or Lisa Simpson level. Allie Goertz and Julia Prescott have collected every essential piece of Simpsons knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and rank them all from 1 to 100 in this entertaining book, which was just discarded from the shelves of The Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop.]]> 272 Allie Goertz 1629375314 Ben 0 to-read 3.58 100 Things The Simpsons Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die (100 Things...Fans Should Know)
author: Allie Goertz
name: Ben
average rating: 3.58
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]]> On Stranger Tides 15670 370 Tim Powers 1930235321 Ben 0 to-read 3.85 1987 On Stranger Tides
author: Tim Powers
name: Ben
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1987
rating: 0
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]]> Wish it. Want it. Do it. 19030489 146 Brian Griffin Ben 0 to-read 4.10 2013 Wish it. Want it. Do it.
author: Brian Griffin
name: Ben
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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]]> Utopia Avenue 52597312 The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks.

Utopia Avenue is the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. Emerging from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967 and fronted by folk singer Elf Holloway, guitar demigod Jasper de Zoet, and blues bassist Dean Moss, Utopia Avenue released only two LPs during its brief, blazing journey from the clubs of Soho and drafty ballrooms to Top of the Pops and the cusp of chart success, and on to glory in Amsterdam, prison in Rome, and a fateful American fortnight in the autumn of 1968.

David Mitchell’s captivating new novel tells the unexpurgated story of Utopia Avenue; of riots in the streets and revolutions in the head; of drugs, thugs, madness, love, sex, death, art; of the families we choose and the ones we don’t; of fame’s Faustian pact and stardom’s wobbly ladder. Can we change the world in turbulent times, or does the world change us?]]> 574 David Mitchell 0812997433 Ben 0 to-read 3.94 2020 Utopia Avenue
author: David Mitchell
name: Ben
average rating: 3.94
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]]> I Am Not Spock 1406186 135 Leonard Nimoy 0890871175 Ben 0 to-read 3.94 1975 I Am Not Spock
author: Leonard Nimoy
name: Ben
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1975
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Say Goodnight to Insomnia: A Drug-Free Programme Developed at Harvard Medical School]]> 19182741 260 Gregg D. Jacobs 190574482X Ben 0 to-read 3.81 1999 Say Goodnight to Insomnia: A Drug-Free Programme Developed at Harvard Medical School
author: Gregg D. Jacobs
name: Ben
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1999
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Jewish-Japanese Sex & Cook Book and How to Raise Wolves]]> 2877780 256 Jack Douglas 0399110437 Ben 0 to-read 3.29 1972 The Jewish-Japanese Sex & Cook Book and How to Raise Wolves
author: Jack Douglas
name: Ben
average rating: 3.29
book published: 1972
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man]]> 54081499
Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents� large, imposing house in the heart of Queens, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse. She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald.

A first-hand witness to countless holiday meals and family interactions, Mary brings an incisive wit and unexpected humor to sometimes grim, often confounding family events. She recounts in unsparing detail everything from her uncle Donald’s place in the family spotlight and Ivana’s penchant for re-gifting to her grandmother’s frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump’s favorite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer’s.

Numerous pundits, armchair psychologists, and journalists have sought to parse Donald J. Trump’s lethal flaws. Mary L. Trump has the education, insight, and intimate familiarity needed to reveal what makes Donald, and the rest of her clan, tick. She alone can recount this fascinating, unnerving saga, not just because of her insider’s perspective but also because she is the only Trump willing to tell the truth about one of the world’s most powerful and dysfunctional families.]]> 225 Mary L. Trump 1982141468 Ben 0 to-read 3.76 2020 Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
author: Mary L. Trump
name: Ben
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2020
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]]> <![CDATA[Catholic Guilt (You Know You Love It)]]> 13455225
Hilarious, shocking and hugely entertaining, 'Catholic Guilt' has all the classic Irvine Welsh ingredients.]]> 1 Irvine Welsh Ben 4 3.63 2011 Catholic Guilt (You Know You Love It)
author: Irvine Welsh
name: Ben
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> The Lives of John Lennon 232361 The Lives of John Lennon exposed for the first time all of his various lives, from idealist to cynic, from ascetic to junkie. It is a lasting tribute to his brilliant achievements and a revelation of the price he paid for them.
]]> 720 Albert Goldman 1556523998 Ben 0 to-read 3.36 1988 The Lives of John Lennon
author: Albert Goldman
name: Ben
average rating: 3.36
book published: 1988
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)]]> 49116
Now he has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Black's downfall as well. And the Azkaban guards heard Black muttering in his sleep, "He's at Hogwarts...he's at Hogwarts."

Harry Potter isn't safe, not even within the walls of his magical school, surrounded by his friends. because on top of it all, there may well be a traitor in their midst.

(front flap)]]> 435 J.K. Rowling Ben 0 4.57 1999 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Ben
average rating: 4.57
book published: 1999
rating: 0
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]]> Weird Al: Seriously 52127386
Funny music is often dismissed as light and irrelevant, but Yankovic's fourteen successful studio albums prove there is more going on than comedic music's reputation suggests. In this book, for the first time, the parodies, original compositions, and polka medleys of the Weird Al universe finally receive their due respect. Lily Hirsch weaves together original interviews with the prince of parody himself, creating a fresh take on comedy and music's complicated romance. She reveals that Yankovic's jests have always had a deeper meaning, addressing such topics as bullying, celebrity, and racial and gender stereotypes.

Weird Al is undeterred by those who say funny music is nothing but a low-brow pastime. And thank goodness. With his good-guy grace still intact, Yankovic remains unapologetically and unmistakably himself. Reveling in the mischief and wisdom of Yankovic's forty-year career, this book is an Al-expense-paid tour of a true comedic and musical genius.]]> 240 Lily E. Hirsch 1538125005 Ben 0 to-read 3.61 2020 Weird Al: Seriously
author: Lily E. Hirsch
name: Ben
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Revolting Relations: The Bachelor Journals of Nick Twisp II (Youth in Revolt Book 11)]]> 52722246 231 C.D. Payne Ben 5 4.00 Revolting Relations: The Bachelor Journals of Nick Twisp II (Youth in Revolt Book 11)
author: C.D. Payne
name: Ben
average rating: 4.00
book published:
rating: 5
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]]> Wiseguy 158141 320 Nicholas Pileggi 0671723227 Ben 3 4.21 1985 Wiseguy
author: Nicholas Pileggi
name: Ben
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1985
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom (Wayside School, #4)]]> 51946033 For the first time in twenty-five years, Wayside School is back in session in this brand-new, fourth installment in the perennially beloved and bestselling series by Newbery Medal-winning author Louis Sachar.

Welcome back to Wayside School!

Your favorite students and teachers are all here. That includes Sharie, who loves her striped-and-spotted umbrella more than anything; Kathy, who has a bad case of oppositosis; Jason, who has to read the longest book in the world; and the rest of Mrs. Jewls’s class on the thirtieth floor, who are busily collecting toenail clippings.

Everyone is scrambling to prepare for the all-important Ultimate Test, but meanwhile, there is a mysterious Cloud of Doom looming above them�

More than fifteen million readers in the U.S. have laughed at the clever and hilarious stories of Wayside School. So what are you waiting for? Come visit Wayside School!]]> 192 Louis Sachar 0062965387 Ben 2 4.14 2020 Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom (Wayside School, #4)
author: Louis Sachar
name: Ben
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2020
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tao of Bill Murray: Real-Life Stories of Joy, Enlightenment, and Party Crashing]]> 28363975 Reading The Tao of Bill Murray is like spending time with Bill, but probably safer. Danny Rubin, screenwriter of Groundhog Day.
This collection of the most epic, hilarious, and strange Bill Murray stories, many of which have never before been reported, spotlights the star's extraordinary ability to infuse the everyday with surprise, absurdity, and wonder.
No one will ever believe you.
New York Times bestselling author Gavin Edwards, like the rest of us, has always been fascinated with Bill Murray in particular the beloved actor's adventures off-screen, which rival his filmography for sheer entertainment value. Edwards traveled to the places where Murray has lived, worked, and partied, in search of the most outrageous and hilarious Bill Murray stories from the past four decades, many of which have never before been reported. Bill once paid a child five dollars to ride his bike into a swimming pool. The star convinced Harvard's JV women's basketball team to play with him in a private game of hoops. Many of these surreal encounters ended with Bill whispering, No one will ever believe you into a stranger's ear. But The Tao of Bill Murray is more than just a collection of wacky anecdotes. This volume puts the actor's public clowning into a larger context, as Edwards distills Murray's unique way of being into a set of guiding principles. A sideways mix of comedy and philosophy, full of photo bombs, late-night party crashes, and movie-set antics, this is the perfect book for anyone who calls themselves a Bill Murray fan which is to say, everyone.
Praise for The Tao of Bill Murray
When confronted by life's challenges and opportunities, we should all be asking ourselves, What would Bill Murray do? This book actually has the answers. Jay Duplass, writer, director, actor, fan of Bill Murray
[Gavin Edwards] captures Murray's enigmatic, comic genius. The Washington Post

Rib-tickling. Newsday

If you are among the multitudes who have a Bill Murray story (viz: I was in the airport bar, and who sat down next to me but Bill Murray? ), The Tao of Bill Murray will speak to you. Elle
Murray is an endless delight, and his knack for bons mots and non sequiturs will keep readers laughing before revealing an unexpectedly poignant vision for happiness. . . . A fun and revealing look behind the charm and mythos of Bill Murray that will only strengthen his legend. Kirkus Reviews
This book is bursting with anecdotes that underline Murray's unconventional and fun-loving life. . . . Murray's fans are sure to savor [it] and walk away with a deeper appreciation of the actor and his work. Publishers Weekly(starred review)
I just can't fathom how anyone could not like the man. He lives as much as possible by his own rules; this is a guy who doesn't buy round-trip airline tickets because he prefers to make decisions on the fly. That old question of the three people you'd most like to have dinner with? I'd pick Bill Murray and leave the other two chairs empty just to see who he pulls over to join us. . . . You will love The Tao of Bill Murray. Period. GeekDad
A hilarious read occasionally heartwarming, sometimes head-scratching. . . . Sure to please Murray fans. Library Journal"]]> 354 Gavin Edwards 0812998707 Ben 0 to-read 3.54 2016 The Tao of Bill Murray: Real-Life Stories of Joy, Enlightenment, and Party Crashing
author: Gavin Edwards
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average rating: 3.54
book published: 2016
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]]> The Temple Dancer's Diary 51799700 400 Cristy L. Bowlin 1077519540 Ben 0 to-read 4.78 The Temple Dancer's Diary
author: Cristy L. Bowlin
name: Ben
average rating: 4.78
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]]> A Brilliant Madness 27314573 304 Robert M. Drake 0986262765 Ben 0 to-read 3.89 A Brilliant Madness
author: Robert M. Drake
name: Ben
average rating: 3.89
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]]> <![CDATA[Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes]]> 2045979 188 Mary Santella-Johnson 1878849158 Ben 0 to-read 4.62 1993 Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes
author: Mary Santella-Johnson
name: Ben
average rating: 4.62
book published: 1993
rating: 0
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]]> Dr Katz: the Audiobook 41208296 Jonathan Katz Ben 4 4.03 Dr Katz: the Audiobook
author: Jonathan Katz
name: Ben
average rating: 4.03
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Bear Went Over the Mountain]]> 225691 The Fan Man and E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, is in top comic form in this outrageous and uproarious parable featring Hal Jam--a big black bear who finds a manuscript under a tree in the Maine woods, dons a suit and a tie, and heads off to the big city to seek his fame and fortune. What follows is a riotous magical romp with the buoyant Hal Jam as he leaves the quiet, nurturing world of the forest for the glittering and corrupt world of humans. New York and Hollywood and all that lies between serve as an expansive palette for Kotzwinkle's wickedly funny satiric brush. The Bear Went Over the Mountain skewers our age's obsession with money and fame in a delicious bedtime story for grown-ups.]]> 320 William Kotzwinkle 0805054383 Ben 4 3.74 1996 The Bear Went Over the Mountain
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average rating: 3.74
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rating: 4
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]]> The Midnight Examiner 366238 320 William Kotzwinkle 1569247773 Ben 0 to-read 3.45 1989 The Midnight Examiner
author: William Kotzwinkle
name: Ben
average rating: 3.45
book published: 1989
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]]> Phish: The Biography 5533128
Drawing upon nearly 15 years of exclusive interviews with the members of Phish and those in their employ, veteran music journalist Parke Puterbaugh delivers an insightful and authoritative biography of this beloved band and their quixotic career. The Biography thoroughly traces the quartet’s history from their formative years to their spectacular success as a prolific touring phenomenon. Puterbaugh examines the colorful chemistry � the unique mix of personalities, backgrounds and talents � that inspired the members of Phish to push their four-way experiment to the limit. He documents their rigorous work ethic, boundless creativity, and all of the resulting innovations, including a series of one-band festivals that served as the blueprint for Bonnaroo and a slew of latter-day rock festivals. Moreover, he details how Phish distilled classical discipline, jazz improvisation, and rock instrumentation and attitude into an intoxicating brew that kept hordes of fans coming back show after show, encouraging them to digest and debate every note and nuance.

The book also candidly addresses the bumps in the road that followed Phish’s ascent to popularity, as rock’s hardest-working band also became one of its hardest-partying entities. Mounting excesses and internal dissent led to a two-year hiatus, a dramatic breakup, and a well-documented drug bust and courageous recovery from addiction for guitarist Trey Anastasio. The tale concludes with Phish’s triumphant reunion in 2009, marking one of the greatest comebacks in music history. An intimate and fascinating portrait, The Biography is the definitive story of these Vermont jamband legends. Ěý]]> 352 Parke Puterbaugh 0306814846 Ben 0 to-read 4.00 2009 Phish: The Biography
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]]> The Phish Book 291039 ĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýWhile it contains many of the trappings of other lavish rock monuments--including more than two hundred pieces of previously unpublished art and photography from the band's private archive--The Phish Book elevates the form by means of an innovative roundtable-style discussion format. Richard Gehr and Phish use the events of 1997 as a jumping-off point from which the band members free-associate about themselves, their music, and the dedicated and colorful community that springs up wherever they perform.
ĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýBeginning with the backstage scene at Boston's Fleet Center on New Year's Eve, 1996, The Phish Book explores the band's earliest days in Burlington, Vermont; their musical influences, which include James Brown, Frank Zappa, and the Grateful Dead; their legendary Halloween shows; the two European and two American tours the group undertook in 1997; the stories behind their 1996 studio album, Billy Breathes, and the following year's live Slip Stitch and Pass; life onstage and off; the sixty-thousand-fan Maine campout and art project known as the Great Went; and the experimental recording and performing techniques that informed the band's most recent studio album, The Story of the Ghost.
ĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýMore than a retrospective journal of the group's evolution, The Phish Book is a glorious snapshot of a band much bigger than its parts and at the height of its collective power.]]> 192 Phish 0375752544 Ben 0 to-read 4.26 1998 The Phish Book
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average rating: 4.26
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]]> How I Conquered Your Planet 529646 158 John Swartzwelder 0975579940 Ben 0 to-read 3.98 2006 How I Conquered Your Planet
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average rating: 3.98
book published: 2006
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]]> <![CDATA[The Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups]]> 897521 48 David Wisniewski 0064437531 Ben 4 4.13 1998 The Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups
author: David Wisniewski
name: Ben
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1998
rating: 4
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]]> Lion 18460749 Cover illustration by Coco Hayley Gordon Moore.
The cover is letterpress printed on Canson Mi-Tenites Paper.
Second printing limited to an edition of 200 sewn paperback copies]]> 28 Thurston Moore 1937073173 Ben 4 4.25 2011 Lion
author: Thurston Moore
name: Ben
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[712 More Things to Write About: (Creative Writing Prompts, Writing Prompt Journal, Things to Write About for Teens and Adults)]]> 22617345 336 San Francisco Writers' Grotto 1452132631 Ben 0 to-read 4.36 2014 712 More Things to Write About: (Creative Writing Prompts, Writing Prompt Journal, Things to Write About for Teens and Adults)
author: San Francisco Writers' Grotto
name: Ben
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> Island 5130 Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and—to his amazement—give him hope.]]> 354 Aldous Huxley 0060085495 Ben 0 to-read 3.87 1962 Island
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name: Ben
average rating: 3.87
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]]> <![CDATA[Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction]]> 37822650
Jarrett goes through his childhood trying to make his non-normal life as normal as possible, finding a way to express himself through drawing even as so little is being said to him about what's going on. Only as a teenager can Jarrett begin to piece together the truth of his family, reckoning with his mother and tracking down his father.

Hey, Kiddo is a profoundly important memoir about growing up in a family grappling with addiction, and finding the art that helps you survive.]]> 320 Jarrett J. Krosoczka 0545902487 Ben 4 4.14 2018 Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction
author: Jarrett J. Krosoczka
name: Ben
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Baby, Don't Hurt Me: Stories and Scars from Saturday Night Live]]> 34315901 You may know him as Mango, Mr. Peepers, the gibberish-spouting Suel Forrester, or one half of the head-bopping brothers in A Night at the Roxbury. Maybe you remember him as the forlorn gothic kid Azrael Abyss, Gay Hitler, or the guitarist in the "More Cowbell" sketch. Whichever it is, Chris Kattan has earned a spot in the hearts of a generation of comedy fans .

Chris Kattan has defied comparison, expectations, and sometimes gravity with his inimitable style of physical comedy. By creating some of the most memorable Saturday Night Live characters, as well as his many roles in film and television, Kattan has remained one of the most fearless and versatile comedians in the world.

Not long after Chris was labeled one of the improv group Groundlings' "must-see" performers in the company, he was cast on SNL--and within the first six weeks, Chris's film career also took off.

Now, for the first time, Kattan opens up about eight seasons on SNL, performing alongside friends and future legends including Will Ferrell, Jimmy Fallon, and Tina Fey, and guest hosts from Charlize Theron to Tom Hanks to David Bowie. He also shares stories of his unusual childhood (involving a secluded mountain with zen monks) with Leonard Cohen and Alan Watts. Baby, Don't Hurt Me offers an unprecedented look into Chris's life, from his fascinating relationship with Lorne Michaels, a private Valentine's Day dinner with Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, an unforgettable flight with Beyonc�, and even breaking his neck on live television.

Baby, Don't Hurt Me is a candid, revealing memoir from a timeless comedian and a window into the world of millennium-era SNL, from the rehearsals to the after-after parties, as narrated by your hilarious and inspiring friend--who just so happened to be there for all of it.]]> 304 Chris Kattan 1944648496 Ben 0 to-read 3.59 2019 Baby, Don't Hurt Me: Stories and Scars from Saturday Night Live
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average rating: 3.59
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]]> <![CDATA[State of the Union: A Marriage in Ten Parts (TV Tie in)]]> 45701328 *THE SIDE-SPLITTING NEW COMIC SHORT FROM ONE OF BRITAIN'S BEST-LOVED WRITERS, NOW A MAJOR BBC TV SERIES*______________________________ Each week, Tom and Louise meet for a quick drink in the pub before they go to meet their marriage counsellor. Married for years and with two children, a recent incident has exposed the fault lines in their relationship in a way that Tom, for one, does not wish to think about.In the ten minutes in the pub they talk about the agenda for the session, what they talked about last week, what they will definitely not talk about with the counsellor, and how much better off they are than the couple whose counselling slot immediately precedes their own. Over the ten weeks that follow Tom and Louise begin to what if marriage is like a computer? When you take it apart to see how it works you might just be left with a million pieces you can't put back together . . .]]> 112 Nick Hornby Ben 0 to-read 3.69 2019 State of the Union: A Marriage in Ten Parts (TV Tie in)
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]]> Year of the Monkey 44776548 Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.

Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland with no design, yet heeding signs–including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. In February, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger’s words, “Anything is possible: after all, it’s the Year of the Monkey.� For Smith–inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, writing–the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life’s gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America.

Smith melds the western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us from California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of a friend in crisis; to the hospital room of a valued mentor; and by turns to remembered and imagined places, this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction with poetic mastery. The unexpected happens; grief and disillusionment set in. But as Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope for a better world.

Riveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated by Smith’s signature Polaroids, Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.]]> 171 Patti Smith 0525657681 Ben 0 to-read 3.81 2019 Year of the Monkey
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]]> <![CDATA[Will and Abe's Guide to the Universe]]> 527686 Is there a Queen Kong?
Are zombies ever happy? These are just a few of the many perplexing questions asked, and sometimes answered, in . . . Will and Abe's Guide to the Universe This is the very latest in the ever-expanding series of mini-jumbo cartoon compendia by that rabbit-drawing rabble-rouser Matt Groening, author of Love Is Hell � , Childhood Is Hell � , and many, many more hell-bound books. Unlike other collections gathered from Matt's provocative Life in Hell ® comic strip, Will and Abe's Guide to the Universe shows a different side of the politically charged TV-cartoon guy—that of dazed but proud dad. All the words in these comic strips are taken from Matt's feisty and funny sons Will and Abe: their actual conversations, stories, songs, arguments, theories, explanations, excuses, snappy retorts, and flights of fancy. If you have kids, know kids, have been a kid, or remain a kid at heart, you know that kids say the most hellish things! * * Any similarity between "hellish" and "darndest," implied or otherwise, is impossible, because darndest isn't really a word, is it? Contains the following wildness:
And much, much more! Collect all 73 comic strips! Better yet, we did it for you! So buy this book! Includes the classic comic strips
"Interview with a 3-Year-Old Vampire,"
"I'm Going to Tell God to Kick You," and
"The Girls at School Drive Us Crazy!"]]> 84 Matt Groening 0061340375 Ben 0 to-read 4.21 2007 Will and Abe's Guide to the Universe
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name: Ben
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2007
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]]> Future Shock 466537 430 Alvin Toffler 0553101501 Ben 0 to-read 3.81 1970 Future Shock
author: Alvin Toffler
name: Ben
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1970
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]]> <![CDATA[The Puppet Man: New & Selected Poems]]> 23173424 100 Don Wallis 0692264744 Ben 0 to-read 0.0 2014 The Puppet Man: New & Selected Poems
author: Don Wallis
name: Ben
average rating: 0.0
book published: 2014
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]]> <![CDATA[If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!]]> 348774 240 Cynthia Heimel 0802139507 Ben 0 to-read 3.83 1991 If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!
author: Cynthia Heimel
name: Ben
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1991
rating: 0
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]]> Helen and Brenda 21486120 348 C.D. Payne 1496151097 Ben 0 to-read 3.71 2014 Helen and Brenda
author: C.D. Payne
name: Ben
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2014
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]]> Brenda the Great 23269894 234 C.D. Payne Ben 3 3.88 2013 Brenda the Great
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average rating: 3.88
book published: 2013
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Revolting Obsessions: The Intimate Journals of Nick Twisp II (Nick Twisp Youth in Revolt Book 10)]]> 45448562 254 C.D. Payne Ben 5 4.04 2019 Revolting Obsessions: The Intimate Journals of Nick Twisp II (Nick Twisp Youth in Revolt Book 10)
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name: Ben
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2019
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Revolt at the Beach: More Twisp Family Chronicles]]> 25636179 285 C.D. Payne Ben 5 3.82 2015 Revolt at the Beach: More Twisp Family Chronicles
author: C.D. Payne
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average rating: 3.82
book published: 2015
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Son of Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Scott Twisp(Book 7)]]> 13562091 282 C.D. Payne 1466436085 Ben 4 3.96 2012 Son of Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Scott Twisp(Book 7)
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name: Ben
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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]]> Imaginary Friend 43522576 Christopher is the new kid in town.
Christopher has an imaginary friend.

We can swallow our fear or let our fear swallow us.

Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night with her child. Together, they find themselves drawn to the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania. It's as far off the beaten track as they can get. Just one highway in, one highway out.

At first, it seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. Then Christopher vanishes. For six long days, no one can find him. Until Christopher emerges from the woods at the edge of town, unharmed but not unchanged. He returns with a voice in his head only he can hear, with a mission only he can complete: Build a treehouse in the woods by Christmas, or his mother and everyone in the town will never be the same again.

Twenty years ago, Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower made readers everywhere feel infinite. Now, Chbosky has returned with an epic work of literary horror, years in the making, whose grand scale and rich emotion redefine the genre. Read it with the lights on.]]> 705 Stephen Chbosky 1538731339 Ben 0 to-read 3.52 2019 Imaginary Friend
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name: Ben
average rating: 3.52
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]]> Going Bovine 6512140
All 16-year-old Cameron wants is to get through high school—and life in general—with a minimum of effort. It’s not a lot to ask. But that’s before he’s given some bad he’s sick and he’s going to die. Which totally sucks. Hope arrives in the winged form of Dulcie, a loopy punk angel/possible hallucination with a bad sugar habit. She tells Cam there is a cure—if he’s willing to go in search of it. With the help of a death-obsessed, video-gaming dwarf and a yard gnome, Cam sets off on the mother of all road trips through a twisted America into the heart of what matters most.]]> 480 Libba Bray 0385733976 Ben 0 to-read 3.67 2009 Going Bovine
author: Libba Bray
name: Ben
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2009
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]]> <![CDATA[Too High to Die: Meet the Meat Puppets]]> 15698553 396 Greg Prato 1105640531 Ben 0 to-read 4.05 2012 Too High to Die: Meet the Meat Puppets
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average rating: 4.05
book published: 2012
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]]> <![CDATA[Revoltingly Young: The Journals of Nick Twisp's Younger Brother]]> 40860 270 Payne C. D. 0741434164 Ben 4 3.79 1995 Revoltingly Young: The Journals of Nick Twisp's Younger Brother
author: Payne C. D.
name: Ben
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1995
rating: 4
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