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#261106 - 01/28/08 09:18 PM
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Bukkake Boy
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by the lake, john mcgahern.
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#261108 - 02/01/08 04:14 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 12/28/07
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Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem
Philip Agee - Inside the Company/CIA Diary
And I can recommend Sillitoe's 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'. A nice and pretty quick read.
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#261109 - 03/25/08 04:19 PM
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Kurt Lackwood's Fluffer
Registered: 07/28/07
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife. About the history of the number zero. In the first few chapters it is about how the Greeks and Christians wouldn's accept the concept of void (zero) or the infinite (anything divided by zero) as it was contrary to Aristotle's proof of the existence of God. It took the Islams conquering the Indians -- who didn't have such qualms about Greek religious beliefs -- to bring zero to the western world. It also talks about how Pythagoras encouraged people to kill others (and was successful) for espousing and revealing the concept of zero or irrational numbers. Ironically Pythagoras' beloved "golden ratio" -- the heart of ancient Greek architecture -- is an irrational number. As this book reinforces, religion fucks up everything as always.
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#261110 - 03/25/08 04:22 PM
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Chronic Masturbator
Registered: 05/06/05
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius-- the first part is a bit slow, and a bit too wordy (actually it's like a novel on speed), but I'm in the middle and really starting to enjoy it.
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#261111 - 03/25/08 04:42 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 12/28/07
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Maxim Gorky - The life of a useless man.
Century old, still good reading.
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#261112 - 03/25/08 04:45 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 01/12/05
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I just finished The Namesake in about a day and a half. I thought it was really well written. I watched the film a day later and was insulted; horrible adaptation. Now I'm back onto an Anthology of Science Fiction shorts.
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#261113 - 03/25/08 06:58 PM
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Porn Jesus
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Rereading Neuromancer, by WGibson, an anthology of American terror and horror short stories, and a novel set in pre-WWII Central Europe by Alan Furst. I go back and forth depending on the mood of the moment.
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#261114 - 03/25/08 07:52 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 04/14/06
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Symbolic Logic - Copi
The End of the World [a collection of various stories of times that seemed like "the end of the world" to the 1st person authors whose works have been compiled].
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#261115 - 03/25/08 08:18 PM
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Porn Jesus
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Jefferson's Vendetta: The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary by Joseph Wehelan. Not quite as good as Roger Kennedy's Burr, Hamilton and Jefferson: A Study in Character, but a good read nonetheless. Does much to point out Jefferson's hypocracy and vindictiveness in an area besides slavery.
I have the Gore Vidal "Burr: A Novel," somewhere in my hovel. It's probably a good read.
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#261117 - 03/25/08 09:03 PM
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I have the Gore Vidal "Burr: A Novel," somewhere in my hovel. It's probably a good read.
It is. Vidal speculates upon the remark Hamilton supposedly made at the dinner table that led to the duel. I won't give it away, but if he's right, it would have set anyone to shooting.
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Ever visit the Hamilton/Burr feud site during your Blvd East days?
I've never been to Weehawken, but I pass Hamilton's grave at Trinity a few times each week. Burr is buried at Princeton.
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#261118 - 03/25/08 09:14 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 01/30/08
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"Letter to a Christian Nation" by Sam Harris.
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#261120 - 03/25/08 09:16 PM
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"Letter to a Christian Nation" by Sam Harris.
How is that? I've read The End of Faith and enjoyed it.
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#261121 - 03/26/08 12:24 AM
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Max Hardcore Prison Bitch
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#261122 - 03/26/08 09:36 AM
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Porn Jesus
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"Silent Travelers- Germs, Genes and the Immigrant Menace"
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#261124 - 03/26/08 05:53 PM
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Porn Jesus
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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)...
Where's your copy of The Economist?
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#261125 - 03/26/08 05:56 PM
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Porn Jesus
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I have the Gore Vidal "Burr: A Novel," somewhere in my hovel. It's probably a good read.
It is. Vidal speculates upon the remark Hamilton supposedly made at the dinner table that led to the duel. I won't give it away, but if he's right, it would have set anyone to shooting.
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Ever visit the Hamilton/Burr feud site during your Blvd East days?
I've never been to Weehawken, but I pass Hamilton's grave at Trinity a few times each week. Burr is buried at Princeton.
I lived off Blvd East on Columbia Terrace for some time but never went to the Hamilton/Burr site. Damn. Had a pretty view of Manhattan every day, however.
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#261126 - 03/26/08 05:59 PM
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Porn Jesus
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Late last year I was reading "The Road," by Cormac Mccarthy. Had trouble finding a used paperback copy until Opraaaa decided to feature the book in her club.
That is one bleak book. His sparse/spare style is incredible and makes up for the wrist slashing angst you get after reading it.
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#261134 - 04/03/08 07:05 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 09/23/04
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"The Last Full Measure" by Jeff Shaara upon Burg's recommendation.
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#261135 - 04/06/08 01:57 PM
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Max Hardcore Prison Bitch
Registered: 11/02/05
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Crazy '08 by Cait Murphy. I love chicks writing about baseball. [image]  [/image]
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#261136 - 04/06/08 03:13 PM
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Kurt Lackwood's Fluffer
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I just finished Naked Ambition: Women Who Are Changing Pornography edited by Carly Milne. It is a collection of short autobiographies written by women in porn (both in front and behind the camera). XPT's own Holly Randall has a chapter. The Tera Patrick chapter was the wackiest. This is one crazy cunt. Things like Evan Seinfeld being a rock star genius that understood her and Suzy Randall hitting on her when she stayed at the Randall's. How the whole world was out to fuck her over financially, sexually and emotionally until she discovered her soul mate, Evan, who would protect her.
I also just finished The Annotated Godfather: The Complete Screenplay by Jenny M. Jones. If you are a big fan of the movie, you will like this book. It takes the shooting script and "annotates" it much like the trivia section on IMDB or like Pop Up Video did to music videos on VH1 like ten years ago. Lots of production, casting, and studio politics information. It tells you things that differ from the novel, deleted scenes and other factoids that are interesting (at least to me as a trivia fan). One of the most interesting things was how Francis Ford Coppola took the novel and marked it up to help with the direction. He also wrote many notes to himself about particular scenes and many of those notes reflected him questioning about how Hitchcock would have done that particular scene. I didn't realize that Hitchcock was a great influence on Coppola.
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#261137 - 04/06/08 03:27 PM
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Porn Jesus
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H.B. Gisevius - Biography of Hitler
Gisevius, an Abwehr (counterespionage) officer during WWII, was presented after the war as one of the first and foremost opposition members in Germany. I'm not so sure about that story. His biography of Hitler is interesting in a strange way. He knew the man personally. Not many biographers did. He tends to be a bit too apologetic for my taste.
Conquest without war - On Kruschev's stance in politics, economics, peaceful coexistence and other worldly matters. Written by two American historians during 1960/1961, it's a text-book example of propaganda. The comments on Kruschev's statements are almost hilarious (Kruschev's statements are also hilarious). It does, however, give an interesting view on the post-Stalin period in geo-political matters.
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#261138 - 04/06/08 04:25 PM
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H.B. Gisevius - Biography of Hitler
Gisevius, an Abwehr (counterespionage) officer during WWII, was presented after the war as one of the first and foremost opposition members in Germany. I'm not so sure about that story. His biography of Hitler is interesting in a strange way. He knew the man personally. Not many biographers did. He tends to be a bit too apologetic for my taste.
Abwehr chief Adm. Wilhelm Canaris was executed about two weeks before the end of the war for being, secretly, one of the chief opponents of Hitler. Turns out, he'd been sending info to MI5/MI6 almost from the first week of the Polish campaign. How close was this guy to Canaris?
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#261144 - 04/07/08 11:22 AM
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Porn Icon
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"Love in the Time of Cholera"
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#261145 - 04/27/08 02:14 PM
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Porn Jesus
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Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
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#261146 - 04/27/08 02:51 PM
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Porn Jesus
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1984: George Orwell Noah II: Roger Dixon Kethani : Eric Brown
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#261147 - 04/27/08 07:28 PM
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Max Hardcore Prison Bitch
Registered: 04/19/08
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The Death Gate Cycle (series) by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
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#261148 - 04/28/08 07:55 PM
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Ed Hardy Wearing Loser
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I was probably 11 years old when I read Noah II. Let me know what you think of it. I won't spoil it for you.
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#261149 - 04/29/08 07:19 PM
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Porn Jesus
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Angry Candy, by media whore Harlan Ellison.
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#261150 - 04/29/08 07:33 PM
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Chronic Masturbator
Registered: 03/29/08
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neon angel by cheri curry  i special ordered it and got a signed copy from the authors own stock a real runaway signed my book! yay!
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#261153 - 04/29/08 11:07 PM
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Kurt Lackwood's Fluffer
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I am eagerly awaiting the release of the final book of Kevin Anderson's "Saga of the Seven Sun's". Dick Smother's Jr. turned me on to the first novel back in 2004.
Plowed through everything written by C.J Cherryh in the last couple of months. She creates wonderfully full and complex societies with backgrounds and traditions that are intriguing as well as entertaining. And she is never boring or blatant in the weaving of her stories. Her "Chanur" series is Fantastic! I wish she'd write more!
Just starting a six book series by Jack McDevitt called "The Academy Novels". Gotta have something to read on the toilet.
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#261155 - 04/30/08 09:01 AM
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Porn Jesus
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Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
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