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#261156 - 04/30/08 09:46 AM
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Porn Fucking Master
Registered: 02/23/05
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Hey Random, I read the Chabon book last year and loved it. I just started Kavalier and Klay.
Unfortunately, the NYT serialized Chabon's new book in the Sunday Mag and I thought it was ass so I will give that one a miss
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#261158 - 05/01/08 07:34 AM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 01/02/05
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I am re-reading "Positively fifth Street", a combined story about the World Series of Poker when it was still held at Binion's Horseshoe Casino, AND the murder of Ted Binion at the hands of the dumbest, most skanky evil overrated whore ever, Sandy Murphy. I strongly endorse this book for all readers, even if you have no interest in Poker, its a great reporting job done by its author. Sheds a lot of light on the workings of Vegas too.
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#261159 - 05/01/08 10:14 AM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 03/22/07
Posts: 5186
Loc: Joshua Tree National Park
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Burg, is that the book written by James McManus (sp?)? If so he managed to write that and finish 5th in the Main Event at the WSOP at the same time.
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#261161 - 05/24/08 03:35 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 12/28/07
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A book by a Dutch writer about the riots in Amsterdam on Coronation Day in 1980. Pretty detailed reconstruction of what happened on that day and what the eventual impact on society has been. It also has some nice pictures.
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#261162 - 06/17/08 02:36 PM
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Kurt Lackwood's Fluffer
Registered: 07/28/07
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The Man Who Shocked The World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram by Thomas Blass.
Stanley Milgram conceived and performed the infamous obedience experiments at Yale in the 1960s. He recruited people from New Haven and had them administer increasingly dangerous electric shocks to people who couldn't learn a simple word list. Almost two-thirds of the people were willing to essentially kill a stranger who did nothing wrong except mess up a word memorization test. As a Jew of European heritage, Milgram was using this experiment to show how so many Germans could be so willing to participate in the Holocaust. The electric shocks were fake, the victim was an actor screaming in pain. The subject was simply responding to the color of authority -- a person in a lab coat -- and Milgam set out to prove that blind obedience to authority could override personal morals in a majority of the population.
Milgram also codified the concept of "six degrees of separation" which has recently been proven to be a flawed concept. An interesting guy who tragically died very young at the age of 51 of a heart attack.
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#261163 - 06/17/08 03:30 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 12/28/07
Posts: 4856
Loc: The 4th International
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Sounds interesting, sir.
At the moment:
1. The Age of Terrorism by Walter Laqueur
This is an excellent piece of work, published in 1987. Being written before all the Al-Qaeda related shit happened, it's a very readable study on political violence. It covers all terroristic organisations from the early Russian anarchists (1870-80) via the IRA and Spain in the 20s to the Palestinian and European terrorists in the 70s and early 80s.
Laqueur is an excellent writer, who is not trying to emulate James Joyce or looses himself in scientific ramblings.
2. Victims of Yalta by Nikolai Tolstoy
Just started, so no real opinion yet. It's about the handling of Russian prisoners of war/emigrés by the British Government. They were 'handed over' to Stalin after WWII and disappeared into Siberian exile.
I wasn't aware of this before I started this book, but it looks as if the Brits tried to cover this up. More later.
The writer is (distantly) related to the great Count Leo Tolstoy.
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#261164 - 06/17/08 03:40 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 01/12/05
Posts: 7322
Loc: The Children's Limbo
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Scientists and Philosophers on the Falsification, Rejection, and Replacement of Theories.
I've been having big bouts on the subject of Meta Physics and somebody suggested this book to shut me up.
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#261165 - 06/17/08 04:36 PM
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2. Victims of Yalta by Nikolai Tolstoy
Just started, so no real opinion yet. It's about the handling of Russian prisoners of war/emigrés by the British Government. They were 'handed over' to Stalin after WWII and disappeared into Siberian exile.
I wasn't aware of this before I started this book, but it looks as if the Brits tried to cover this up. More later.
The writer is (distantly) related to the great Count Leo Tolstoy.
There were many Soviet citizens (mainly Ukrainian) who switched sides and fought for the Third Reich. Britain handed the majority of them over to Stalin,(who I believe killed most of them, either summarily or in the Gulags) but some 500 escaped to Liechtenstein and, from there, eventually to South America. I'll have to check it out.
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#261167 - 06/17/08 06:31 PM
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Porn Fucking Master
Registered: 09/19/05
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Loc: Baltimore, MD
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The Life and Times of Mexico, by Earl Shorris. Highly recommend.
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#261168 - 06/19/08 10:41 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 01/30/08
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Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond.
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#261169 - 07/05/08 01:36 PM
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Picked up His Excellency, along with a bunch of decorations for the Fourth from Federal Hall.. Heard it's a decent read.
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#261170 - 07/05/08 04:10 PM
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Porn Fucking Master
Registered: 05/18/06
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i ain't reading shit 
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#261171 - 07/23/08 06:49 AM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 12/28/07
Posts: 4856
Loc: The 4th International
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While on holiday, two books:
1. Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer. This was a very interesting book. But I advise to read a few other things on WWII, before this book.
2. Ablaze by Piers Paul Read. About the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl. It sucked, avoid it.
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#261172 - 07/23/08 07:03 AM
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Max Hardcore Prison Bitch
Registered: 04/30/08
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I just recently read Chuck Palahniuk's latest 'Snuff'---it sucked  I have read all his books and they started out incredible and have slowly trickled down to the predictable and boring..blah I have no idea what i'm going to read next...i have this weird compulsion to buy a zillion books when i haven't read the ones i already have...
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#261175 - 07/24/08 10:46 AM
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Gay For Pay
Registered: 03/07/06
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Just finished reading the Watchmen. Can't wait for the movie.
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#261176 - 07/24/08 11:55 AM
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Porn Jesus
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"An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One," by Rick Atkinson and "Angry Candy," by Harlan 'Mediawhore' Ellison.
I have to find a good history of the North Africa campaign - something like Antony Beevor's, "Stalingrad," and "Berlin."
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#261178 - 07/24/08 02:20 PM
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Max Hardcore Prison Bitch
Registered: 04/30/08
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Just finished reading the Watchmen. Can't wait for the movie.
My brother and husband keep telling me to read it...i feel like a poseur since the movie will be coming out in the near future...
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#261179 - 07/24/08 03:48 PM
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Max Hardcore Prison Bitch
Registered: 07/09/08
Posts: 267
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Just finished "Thank You For Smoking." Kinda different from the movie.
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#261180 - 07/24/08 04:29 PM
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Registered: 10/21/05
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Just finished reading the Watchmen. Can't wait for the movie.
My brother and husband keep telling me to read it...i feel like a poseur since the movie will be coming out in the near future...
You know when you're just a kid and the prospect of an all-encompassing nuclear holocaust first dawns on you? Watchmen will take you back to that moment...I wholeheartedly recommend it. Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing was some pretty mind-altering stuff too. 
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#261181 - 07/24/08 06:01 PM
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Porn Fucking Master
Registered: 09/19/05
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I am interested in the Civil War, and have been reading a collection of actual accounts from the soldiers who fought at the Battle of Antietam creek (Sharpsburg). They had had fucking balls to charge each others' lines in face of withering fire, while seeing the men next to them killed by rifles and cannons.
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#261182 - 07/24/08 06:05 PM
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Porn Fucking Master
Registered: 05/18/06
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Just finished "Thank You For Smoking." Kinda different from the movie.
haven't read the book, but really dug the movie. aaron eckhart, you are welcome in my girlhole anytime.
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#261185 - 07/24/08 11:32 PM
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Porn Jesus
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The new GQ, which is the 'comedy' issue. It is about as funny as your sister bringing home Marc Wallice for Thanksgiving dinner. The Chris Rock/Don Rickles interview is good, though...
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#261187 - 07/26/08 02:29 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 09/07/05
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Good Calories. Bad Calories by Gary Taubes. Explores the perception of what is healthy and how ingreidents have affected civilization.
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#261188 - 07/26/08 02:52 PM
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#261189 - 07/26/08 02:56 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 09/07/05
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i wanna li-li-li-li-lick it like a lollipop.
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#261191 - 07/26/08 06:24 PM
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Kurt Lackwood's Fluffer
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When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops? by George Carlin. It is very uneven in being funny. I try to image George Carlin actually saying the stuff as I read it. It feels like he filled a contractual obligation. I haven't read his other books, so maybe they are funnier.
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#261192 - 07/26/08 06:38 PM
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Rob Black's Crack Pipe
Registered: 07/22/08
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Reading Redneck Manifesto by Jim Goad. Fucking brilliant
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#261193 - 07/26/08 06:49 PM
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Kurt Lackwood's Fluffer
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Jack, that is a GREAT book, I read it several years ago. You should dig up the four different ANSWER ME! zines he and his dead ex-wife published about 10 or so years ago.
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#261195 - 07/26/08 09:18 PM
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Porn Jesus
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I just finished re-reading Bitch by Elizabeth "Slurpie" Wurtzel. I had started it several times in the past but only now decided to finish it .... It is the 20th Anniversary of the Class of 89 and I am thinking of her wretching in the Stillman Infirmary in harvard Square after a night of 1000 drugs.
Next up, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The roman's essentially fucked themselves to death.
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#261196 - 07/27/08 12:02 AM
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Porn Jesus
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^^^Wurtzel is in law school now.
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#261197 - 07/27/08 01:35 AM
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Porn Jesus
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^^^Wurtzel is in law school now.
To borrow one your fav expressions G, whoopti(sp?) doo(sp?).
So when she is done she can ease into yet another bullshit legal "Advisory" position at Rolling Stone, or some cantankerous pseudo feminist organization for formerly-hot middle class chicks who never recovered from the facts that: (1) their daddies left their mommies because the daddies wanted nothing more than to stick their pee pees into much younger tighter vaginas, and that as a result these daddies missed many of their daughters' dance recitals in order to keep sticking their pee pees into aformentioned younger vaginas as much as possible before the daddies died of coronary artery disease; (2) The handsome, filthy rich boy(s) these formerly hot middle class chick(s) met, fell in love with and dreamed of marrying on a beach in Malibu during their freshman year only used them for "slumming sex", doing things to them (like anal creampies and open mouthed cumshots before such things were considered "normal" and expected from females as they are today) that the snooty rich girls denied the handsome rich boys (because the snooty rich girls were letting the black, city college night school dining hall workers fuck them in the ass.)
"Slurps" never recovered from losing the 1987 gold card war over the son of the president of Universal Studios, losing out to a Jewish American Princess with huge tits who swallowed (gahh I luv jewish chicks for that, they always gobbled, never purged.)
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#261198 - 07/30/08 10:30 PM
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Porn Jesus
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just started "blind man's bluff: the untold story of american submarine espionage". it's like a decade old, but whatever.
the cold war, submarines and espionage, that shit's irresistible. that's like thritone ir coke to most guys.
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#261199 - 07/30/08 10:41 PM
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Kurt Lackwood's Fluffer
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"1421: The Year China Discovered America"
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#261200 - 07/31/08 07:09 PM
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Rob Black's Crack Pipe
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Jack, that is a GREAT book, I read it several years ago. You should dig up the four different ANSWER ME! zines he and his dead ex-wife published about 10 or so years ago.
I used to have the first 3 Answer Me! zines. Goad sells them as a full collection now on his site. I might have to pick the compilation up. Take a stroll down memory lane.
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#261201 - 07/31/08 07:11 PM
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Kurt Lackwood's Fluffer
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yah, and you can get issue 4 (the RAPE issue) by request too... absolutely worth it.
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#261202 - 07/31/08 07:14 PM
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Rob Black's Crack Pipe
Registered: 07/22/08
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Aye, Just finished re-reading those the other day.
Shit Magnet is obviously also highly recommended.
Shit Magnet is on deck. I've been so busy that I haven't had much time to read lately but I'm looking forward to jumping into Shit Magnet soon.
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#261203 - 07/31/08 08:05 PM
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Chronic Masturbator
Registered: 03/29/08
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blonde by joyce carroll oates its about marilyn monroe 
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#261204 - 07/31/08 08:38 PM
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Max Hardcore Prison Bitch
Registered: 03/12/08
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Loc: Edmonton, AB
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Just finished Generation Kill and now I'm working on World War Z.
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#261205 - 07/31/08 08:45 PM
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