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you are fucking lying, there is not a chance in hell you walked into a retail bookstore, paid full price or whatever bad sale they had FOR JENNA JAMESONS GHOST WRITTEN AUTOBIOGRAPHY and then went home and read it, you sreiosly have to be joking, this is honestly stretching the realm of plausibility for me, no fking way you read what could be absorbed in 35 minutes watching the E! true hollywood story

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you are fucking lying, there is not a chance in hell you walked into a retail bookstore, paid full price or whatever bad sale they had FOR JENNA JAMESONS GHOST WRITTEN AUTOBIOGRAPHY and then went home and read it, you sreiosly have to be joking, this is honestly stretching the realm of plausibility for me, no fking way you read what could be absorbed in 35 minutes watching the E! true hollywood story

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Nope, I got it off Ebay shit cheap...I never pay retail for anything.

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I am currently awaiting delivery of the autobiography of Holly Randall's mother.

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Even if it is true, I certainly wouldn't cop to it publicly.

I'm currently slogging my way through Gravity's Rainbow. Pray for me.

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Are you a Thomas Pynchon enthusiast, or did you just grab the book on someone's suggestion or at random?? Pynchon is actually an amazing author when confining the discussion to post modern fiction. I have not read Gravity's Rainbow yet but I have read the Crying of Lot 49, which is short enough to allow you to get your arms around his typically "secret Code"-ish, Labyrinth-like story lines. In the book, I loved the little town of St Narciso ("Saint Narcissus" in Spanish) just outside LOS ANGELES, how fitting...

F"why"I -- Pynchon went to Cornell and was a student of Nabakov's while there...it fucking shows, I'll tell ya!!

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I am currently awaiting delivery of the autobiography of Holly Randall's mother.

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What is the title again? Somehow I either forgot or missed that, I may check it out.

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For quite some time, before the official release. Wanna know how it ends?

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For quite some time, before the official release. Wanna know how it ends?

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This is the most hollow claim ever...if you'd posted the spoilers before it came out, then you'd have some kudos, but the book has been officially available for a couple of days now, so any supposed insider knowledge is rendered redundant.

Ergo: I saw James Cameron's 'Titanic' quite some time before the official release. Wanna know how it ends?

Smartt, this is called 'Darthing' or 'Doing A Darth'...it refers to someone who supposedly has top secret industry insider knowledge, but this allegedly secret knowledge is actually already widely known, thus making said knowledge largely worthless unless you've been living under a rock.

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This is the most hollow claim ever...if you'd posted the spoilers before it came out, then you'd have some kudos, but the book has been officially available for a couple of days now, so any supposed insider knowledge is rendered redundant.

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Smartt, this is called 'Darthing' or 'Doing A Darth'...it refers to someone who supposedly has top secret industry insider knowledge, but this allegedly secret knowledge is actually already widely known, thus making said knowledge largely worthless unless you've been living under a rock.

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I've read the motherfucker before almost anyone else cause I'm the Brazilian translator of the series since volume 5.

And even knowing that this is the last one, I wouldn't risk my reputation (and the easy money that comes with it) by spoiling it.

You understand now, or I have to draw you stick figures?

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Claim to insider knowledge: Check

Defensive explanation as to why he won't acctually comply with his offer to divulge said information: Check

Smartt Ass tag line trying to sound badass: Check

Could Darth, in fact, be Smartt?

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It's more than just defensive...it's what hypnotherapists and psychologists refer to as designed or predesigned failure, i.e., 'I could do x but y prevents me'. (With y usually being a self-generated obstacle).

As I said, it's a completely hollow claim...anyone want the inside track on the FIFA 1998 World Cup? Put your money on the French, with Zidane to score the first goal in the final. Don't ask me how I know this, I just do...

(Of course, I couldn't tell you this before the 1998 World Cup because I didn't want to lose my highly paid position at FIFA)

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I like books like this...I consider myself a pugilist or a glorified bar fighter

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check out "The Knockout Artist" by Harry Crews!

A superbly crafted novel of deceptions and darkness, this look at the underside of a strange group in New Orleans moves inexorably toward a stunning climax. Eugene Gibbs, a failed boxer, becomes popular on the kinky circuit and is taken in hand by Charity, a wealthy girl who beds him. Eugene is drawn into the circle of another boxer, his addict girlfriend, a hooker/lesbian, and a wealthy businessman who gets his kicks by controlling people by day and being led about with a leash by night. Basically decent, Eugene is tormented because he is deceived and let down by everyone, except a young boxer he is training. Characterization, incidents, and tone are all beautifully sustained in this unusual book. R. H. Donahugh, Youngstown and Mahoning Cty. P.L., Ohio

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Last week as I flew back home to New England from L.A., I had a LONNNNG-ass wait and found myself in my FAVORITE PLACE in the world, my own personal slice of heaven-on-earth (besides Kahoots in Hartford)... BARNES & NOBLE!

I have a diverse taste in reading material, which accounts for my widespread knowledge in many different fields and topics....but I am really addicted to Magazines with their power packed presentation of information.

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What must be day four of a coked-up porn star's binge.

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Just finished - The New Abridged Diary of Anne Frank

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http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9781400061280&itm=2

Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
by Anthony Everitt

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Cleetus, I am impressed! How's it going brah?

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Very good Burg and you? Octavian is my hero.

I love ancient Rome and the parallels between their culture and ours are interesting.

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Very good Burg and you? Octavian is my hero.

I love ancient Rome and the parallels between their culture and ours are interesting.

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Oh, then I recommend reading Robert Graves Claudius The God written in 1935, it reads as a first person and is very enjoyable.

Claudius The God

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Thanks Eminence Front, I'll look to pick that up too. Also if anyone knows any good books about Lucius Cornelius Sulla, He looks very interesting as well. Thanks again Eminence

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Willocks wrote a prison novel called GREEN RIVER RISING that's a masterpiece in a vein a little too popular for me, but it was still damned good. I started THE RELIGION, which is much more ambitious in a good way, but was distracted by a shiny moving object. I saw that book on sale at Costco and almost fell over. They usually stock utter crap.

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