Jack's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 17 Jan 2025 12:20:58 -0800 60 Jack's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Trainspotting: A Screenplay (Based on the Novel by Irvine Welsh)]]> 23951 123 John Hodge 0786882212 Jack 0 to-read 4.39 Trainspotting: A Screenplay (Based on the Novel by Irvine Welsh)
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]]> The Call of Cthulhu 15730101 The Call of Cthulhu is a harrowing tale of the weakness of the human mind when confronted by powers and intelligences from beyond our world.]]> 43 H.P. Lovecraft Jack 5 3.97 1928 The Call of Cthulhu
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]]> <![CDATA[Bloodsucker [Issue No. 1 (August 1992); Stated 1st Printing, July 1992]]]> 170575140 0 Lydia Lunch Jack 0 to-read 0.0 Bloodsucker [Issue No. 1 (August 1992); Stated 1st Printing, July 1992]
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]]> Amnesia (Spanish Edition) 161510922 48 Lydia Lunch Jack 0 to-read 0.0 2009 Amnesia (Spanish Edition)
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]]> The Eternal Return 123202131
A sinister reimagining of the Pygmalion legend � alternately monstrous, cynical, and comedic � it is a book that follows W.B. Yeats� dictum that “sex and death are the only things that can interest a serious mind.”]]> 362 John Kolchak 0984013091 Jack 5 3.13 The Eternal Return
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The Eternal Return by John Kolchak follows the life and lies of an unreliable narrator named Lucky. Lucky is an aspiring writer who takes a trip to New York City to finish his book where he reflects on his past relationships and ends up meeting the mysterious and beautiful Betty who happens to be disabled. Using a clever writing style that blends poetry and prose, Kolchak explores Lucky’s checkered past with women and his budding relationship with Betty as he struggles to find love and meaning in his life. The tale is vivid and gritty, a rare and relatable writing style that refuses to pull any punches as it explores the difficulties of romantic relationships. A stirring mix of black humour, brutal honesty and metaphor that is rare to see in a modern novel, The Eternal Return is a work of literary genius willing to confront controversy that most modern authors would shy away from. The author weaves poetry and prose together into a fascinating story about the fragile human condition that keeps the pages turning and is well worth the read.
]]> <![CDATA[El año que viene en Jerusalén (Spanish Edition)]]> 39084498

Mientras la Judea del siglo I sangra bajo la opresión de la dominación romana y los violentos levantamientos contra la misma, Jesús, atormentado por la culpa familiar por haber abandonado a su madre, acaba formando su propia familia de viajeros que predican la paz y la compasión frente a un inhumano salvajismo. Sus vagabundeos les llevan a encontrarse con falsos profetas, asesinos y un veloz y creciente movimiento de rebeldes extremistas, cuyo líder, Barrabás, tiene la misión de expulsar a los romanos y establecer una teocracia etnocéntrica.


El destino acaba enviando a Jesús y Barrabás a la corte de Poncio Pilato, el gobernador dipsomaníaco obsesionado con hacerse un nombre en los libros de historia. El resultado de ese encuentro alterará el destino del mundo durante los dos milenios siguientes.


Con paralelismos urgentes a los temas contemporáneos de la guerra religiosa, este libro es tanto un lamento como una advertencia. También es una historia sobre el paso del tiempo, la naturaleza de la memoria y el inherente anhelo de la humanidad por la vida eterna.]]> 308 John Kolchak Jack 5 4.00 2015 El año que viene en Jerusalén (Spanish Edition)
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]]> <![CDATA[Haymarket Square: The Story of Alex Bobrov]]> 114664073 202 John Kolchak 0984013067 Jack 5 5.00 2011 Haymarket Square: The Story of Alex Bobrov
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]]> Haymarket Square 81234808 222 John Kolchak 0984013016 Jack 5 2.00 2011 Haymarket Square
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]]> Bruise In Bloom 100546777 97 Jack Blare 1710268395 Jack 5 -Jack Blare, author of 'Bruise in Bloom' and free speech activist.

If you are an author that has experienced any of the above please contact me and share your story.]]> 5.00 Bruise In Bloom
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ŷ refuses to accept that I authored this book. Dozens of other authors are coming forward with stories of censorship and harassment. Despite hard evidence in the form of screenshots they regularly break their own policy and ignore harassment including racism and threats. If you believe in freedom of speech please contact ŷ staff and let them know you won't stand for censorship.
-Jack Blare, author of 'Bruise in Bloom' and free speech activist.

If you are an author that has experienced any of the above please contact me and share your story.
]]> <![CDATA[On Wine and Hashish (Hesperus Classics)]]> 24605 88 Charles Baudelaire 1843910179 Jack 5 currently-reading 3.97 1851 On Wine and Hashish (Hesperus Classics)
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]]> <![CDATA[Sexy Stories From the World of Religions - Issue #1 (Comic)]]> 148104767 0 Lydia Lunch Jack 0 to-read 0.0 Sexy Stories From the World of Religions - Issue #1 (Comic)
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]]> Dirty white honeysuckle 43529884
Créer c’est, dans un sens, frôler la mort. Laisser une trace de dérapage. Chier à la face de l’histoire. Confronter la mortalité avec un majeur dressé en l’air, sachant parfaitement que la mort disposera éventuellement de ce corps, mais elle ne sera pas capable d’enterrer complètement les pièces à conviction que cette terroriste de l’art projette de laisser derrière elle.]]> 82 Lydia Lunch 2875052527 Jack 0 to-read 3.00 Dirty white honeysuckle
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]]> Shut Up and Bleed 11169616 Lydia Lunch Jack 0 to-read 4.00 2008 Shut Up and Bleed
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]]> Storie Number 55 661438 150 Lydia Lunch 8888361251 Jack 0 to-read 4.00 2004 Storie Number 55
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]]> Adulterers Anonymous II 8130031 120 Lydia Lunch 0867194391 Jack 0 to-read 4.50 Adulterers Anonymous II
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]]> Amnesia 20325663 48 Lydia Lunch 8461313399 Jack 0 to-read 4.00 2009 Amnesia
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]]> Lydia Lunch Bloodsucker 35662071 25 Lydia Lunch Jack 0 to-read 4.12 Lydia Lunch Bloodsucker
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]]> AS-FIX-E-8 1764058 Lydia Lunch 086719233X Jack 0 to-read 3.80 1993 AS-FIX-E-8
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]]> <![CDATA[I'm Just The Drummer: My Time behind Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, Chrome Cranks & BB Gun Magazine]]> 45169569 215 Bob Bert 0996331972 Jack 0 to-read 4.08 I'm Just The Drummer: My Time behind Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, Chrome Cranks & BB Gun Magazine
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]]> Toxic Gumbo 661445 47 Lydia Lunch 1563893479 Jack 0 to-read 3.56 1998 Toxic Gumbo
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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 Jack 3 3.87 1962 Island
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]]> <![CDATA[The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell]]> 5128 The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell , both of which became essential for the counterculture during the 1960s and influenced a generation's perception of life.]]> 187 Aldous Huxley 0060595183 Jack 4 3.95 1956 The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
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]]> <![CDATA[Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited]]> 5479 Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future--of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.

The non-fiction work Brave New World Revisited, published in 1958, is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including the threats to humanity, such as over-population, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.]]> 340 Aldous Huxley 0060776099 Jack 5 4.17 1958 Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
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]]> <![CDATA[The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo]]> 197451
Written with uninhibited candor and manic energy, this book is Acosta's own account of coming of age as a Chicano in the psychedelic sixties, of taking on impossible cases while breaking all tile rules of courtroom conduct, and of scrambling headlong in search of a personal and cultural identity. It is a landmark of contemporary Hispanic-American literature, at once ribald, surreal, and unmistakably authentic.]]> 208 Oscar Zeta Acosta 0679722130 Jack 5 3.94 1972 The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
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]]> <![CDATA[Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business]]> 74034 184 Neil Postman 014303653X Jack 5 4.15 1985 Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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]]> The Feral Poet 103533504 100 Andrew Wilkes Jack 5 5.00 The Feral Poet
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]]> <![CDATA[Tales of an Electroshock Gutter Girl:: Dead Girls Never Tell]]> 27124502 102 Lisa Russell 1514735032 Jack 5 5.00 2015 Tales of an Electroshock Gutter Girl:: Dead Girls Never Tell
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]]> <![CDATA[The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved]]> 18135113
The article's focus is less on the actual race itself—indeed, Thompson and Steadman could not actually see the race from their standpoint—and more on the celebration and depravity that surrounds the event, as well as other events in Louisville (Thompson's home town) in the surrounding days.]]> 222 Hunter S. Thompson Jack 5 4.47 1970 The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved
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]]> <![CDATA[The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967]]> 10880 The Proud Highway offer an unprecedented and penetrating gaze into the evolution of the most outrageous raconteur/provocateur ever to assault a typewriter.]]> 720 Hunter S. Thompson 0345377966 Jack 0 to-read 4.16 1997 The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
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]]> <![CDATA[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories (Modern Library)]]> 7746 283 Hunter S. Thompson 0679602984 Jack 5 4.28 1971 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories (Modern Library)
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]]> <![CDATA[Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream]]> 54247 Songs of the Doomed is back in print -- by popular demand! In this third and most extraordinary volume of the Gonzo Papers, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson recalls high and hideous moments in his thirty years in the Passing Lane -- and no one is safe from his hilarious, remarkably astute social commentary.
With Thompson's trademark insight and passion about the state of American politics and culture, Songs of the Doomed charts the long, strange trip from Kennedy to Quayle in Thompson's freewheeling, inimitable style. Spanning four decades -- 1950 to 1990 -- Thompson is at the top of his form while fleeing New York for Puerto Rico, riding with the Hell's Angels, investigating Las Vegas sleaze, grappling with the "Dukakis problem," and finally, detailing his infamous lifestyle bust, trial documents, and Fourth Amendment battle with the Law. These tales -- often sleazy, brutal, and crude -- are only the tip of what Jack Nicholson called "the most baffling human iceberg of our time."
Songs of the Doomed is vintage Thompson -- a brilliant, brazen, bawdy compilation of the greatest sound bites of Gonzo journalism from the past thirty years.]]> 384 Hunter S. Thompson 0743240995 Jack 0 to-read 3.86 1990 Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream
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]]> Screwjack 34448 Hunter S. Thompson's legions of fans have waited a decade for this book.

They will not be disappointed. His notorious Screwjack is as salacious, unsettling, and brutally lyrical as it has been rumored to be since the private printing in 1991 of three hundred fine collectors' copies and twenty-six leather-bound presentation copies. Only the first of the three pieces included here�"Mescalito," published in Thompson's 1990 collection Songs of the Doomed—has been available to the public, making the trade edition of Screwjack a major publishing event. "We live in a jungle of pending disasters," Thompson warns in "Mescalito," a chronicle of his first mescaline experience and what it sparked in him while he was alone in an L.A. hotel room in February 1969—including a bout of paranoia that would have made most people just scream no, once and for all. But for Thompson, along with the downside came a burst of creativity too powerful to ignore. The result is a poetic, perceptive, and wildly funny stream-of-consciousness take on 1969 America as only Hunter S. Thompson could see it.

Screwjack just gets weirder with its second offering, "Death of a Poet." As Thompson describes this trailer-park confrontation with the dark side of a deservingly doomed friend: "Whoops, I thought. Welcome to the night train."

The heart of the collection lies in its final, title piece, an unnaturally poignant love story. What makes the romantic tale "Screwjack" so touching, for all its queerness, is the aching melancholy in its depiction of the modern man's burden: that "we are doomed. Mama has gone off to Real Estate School...and after that maybe even to Law School. We will never see her again."

Ostensibly written by Raoul Duke, "Screwjack" begins with an editor's note explaining of Thompson's alter ego that "the first few lines contain no warning of the madness and fear and lust that came more and more to plague him and dominate his life...." "I am guilty, Lord," Thompson writes, "but I am also a lover—and I am one of your best people, as you know; and yea tho I have walked in many strange shadows and acted crazy from time to time and even drooled on many High Priests, I have not been an embarrassment to you...."

Nor has Hunter S. Thompson been to American literature. Quite the contrary: What the legendary Gonzo journalist proves with Screwjack is just how brilliant a prose stylist he really is, amid all the hilarity. As Thompson puts it in his introduction, the three stories here "build like Bolero to a faster & wilder climax that will drag the reader relentlessly up a hill, & then drop him off a cliff....That is the Desired Effect."]]> 64 Hunter S. Thompson 0684873214 Jack 0 to-read 3.53 2000 Screwjack
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]]> <![CDATA[Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist - The Gonzo Letters, Volume II, 1968-1976]]> 7752 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas comes another astonishing volume of letters by Hunter S. Thompson.

Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, this second volume of Thompson's private correspondence is the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway. When that first book of letters appeared in 1997, Time pronounced it "deliriously entertaining"; Rolling Stone called it "brilliant beyond description"; and The New York Times celebrated its "wicked humor and bracing political conviction."

Spanning the years between 1968 and 1976, these never-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend: running for sheriff in Aspen, Colorado; creating the seminal road book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; twisting political reporting to new heights for Rolling Stone; and making sense of it all in the landmark Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. To read Thompson's dispatches from these years--addressed to the author's friends, enemies, editors, and creditors, and such notables as Jimmy Carter, Tom Wolfe, and Kurt Vonnegut--is to read a raw, revolutionary eyewitness account of one of the most exciting and pivotal eras in American history.]]> 784 Hunter S. Thompson 0684873168 Jack 0 to-read 4.09 2000 Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist - The Gonzo Letters, Volume II, 1968-1976
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]]> The Curse of Lono 52880 The Curse of Lono accessible to everyone.]]> 208 Hunter S. Thompson 3822848972 Jack 0 to-read 3.93 1983 The Curse of Lono
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]]> <![CDATA[Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie]]> 18865 The Philadelphia Inquirer

Since his 1972 trailblazing opus, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter S. Thompson has reported the election story in his truly inimitable, just-short-of-libel style. In Better than Sex, Thompson hits the dusty trail again—without leaving home—yet manages to deliver a mind-bending view of the 1992 presidential campaign—in all of its horror, sacrifice, lust, and dubious glory. Complete with faxes sent to and received by candidate Clinton's top aides, and 100 percent pure gonzo screeds on Richard Nixon, George Bush, and Oliver North, here is the most true-blue campaign tell-all ever penned by man or beast.

"[Thompson] delivers yet another of his trademark cocktail mixes of unbelievable tales and dark observations about the sausage grind that is the U.S. presidential sweepstakes. Packed with egocentric anecdotes, musings and reprints of memos, faxes and scrawled handwritten notes...Memorable."--Los Angeles Daily News

"What endears Hunter Thompson to anyone who reads him is that he will say what others are afraid to....[He] is a master at the unlikely but invariably telling line that sums up a political figure....In a year when all politics is—to much of the public—a tendentious and pompous bore, it is time to read Hunter Thompson."�Richmond Times-Dispatch

"While Tom Wolfe mastered the technique of being a fly on the wall, Thompson mastered the art of being a fly in the ointment. He made himself a part of every story, made no apologies for it and thus produced far more honest reporting than any crusading member of the Fourth Estate....Thompson isn't afraid to take the hard medicine, nor is he bashful about dishing it out....He is still king of beasts, and his apocalyptic prophecies seldom miss their target."�Tulsa World

"This is a very, very funny book. No one can ever match Thompson in the vitriol department, and virtually nobody escapes his wrath."�The Flint Journal]]> 245 Hunter S. Thompson 0345396359 Jack 0 to-read 3.77 1994 Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie
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]]> <![CDATA[Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's]]> 10877 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the legendary Hunter S. Thompson's second volume of the "Gonzo Papers" is back. Generation of Swine collects hundreds of columns from the infamous journalist's 1980s tenure at the San Francisco Examiner.

Here, against a backdrop of late-night tattoo sessions and soldier-of-fortune trade shows, Dr. Thompson is at his apocalyptic best―covering emblematic events such as the 1987-88 presidential campaign, with Vice President George Bush, Sr., fighting for his life against Republican competitors like Alexander Haig, Pat Buchanan, and Pat Robertson; detailing the GOP's obsession with drugs and drug abuse; while at the same time capturing momentous social phenomena as they occurred, like the rise of cable, satellite TV, and CNN�24 hours of mainline news. Showcasing his inimitable talent for social and political analysis, Generation of Swine is vintage Thompson―eerily prescient, incisive, and enduring.]]> 336 Hunter S. Thompson 0743250443 Jack 5 3.80 1988 Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's
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]]> <![CDATA[The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (The Gonzo Papers, #1)]]> 10878 Gonzo Papers offers brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in his signature style.

Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the bestselling “Gonzo Papers� is now back in print. The Great Shark Hunt is Dr. Hunter S. Thompson’s largest and, arguably, most important work, covering Nixon to napalm, Las Vegas to Watergate, Carter to cocaine. These essays offer brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in signature Thompson style.

Ranging in date from the National Observer days to the era of Rolling Stone, The Great Shark Hunt offers myriad, highly charged entries, including the first Hunter S. Thompson piece to be dubbed “gonzo”—“The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,� which appeared in Scanlan's Monthly in 1970. From this essay a new journalistic movement sprang which would change the shape of American letters. Thompson's razor-sharp insight and crystal clarity capture the crazy, hypocritical, degenerate, and redeeming aspects of the explosive and colorful �60s and �70s.]]> 624 Hunter S. Thompson 0743250451 Jack 5 4.09 1979 The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (The Gonzo Papers, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72]]> 7748 Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, these are the articles that Hunter S. Thompson wrote for Rolling Stone magazine while covering the 1972 election campaign of President Richard M. Nixon and his unsuccessful opponent, Senator George S. McGovern. Hunter focuses largely on the Democratic Party's primaries and the breakdown of the national party as it splits between the different candidates.

With drug-addled alacrity and incisive wit, Thompson turned his jaundiced eye and gonzo heart to the repellent and seductive race for president, deconstructed the campaigns, and ended up with a political vision that is eerily prophetic

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]]> VALIS 216377 VALIS is the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat; the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser. VALIS is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime.]]> 242 Philip K. Dick 0679734465 Jack 0 to-read 3.94 1981 VALIS
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]]> A Scanner Darkly 14817
The undercover narcotics agent who calls himself Bob Arctor is desperate to discover the ultimate source of supply. But to find any kind of lead he has to pose as a user and, inevitably, without realising what is happening, Arctor is soon as addicted as the junkies he works among...]]> 324 Philip K. Dick 057507681X Jack 5 4.03 1977 A Scanner Darkly
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]]> Ubik 22590
Esta mordaz comedia metafísica de muerte y salvación (que podrá llevar un cómodo envase) es un tour de force de amenaza paranoica y comedia absurda, en la cual los muertos ofrecen consejos comerciales, compran su siguiente reencarnación y corren el riesgo continuo de volver a morir.]]> 288 Philip K. Dick 8498000831 Jack 4 4.11 1969 Ubik
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]]> <![CDATA[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?]]> 36402034 258 Philip K. Dick Jack 0 to-read 4.16 1968 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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]]> The Man in the High Castle 216363
This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake.]]> 259 Philip K. Dick 0679740678 Jack 0 to-read 3.64 1962 The Man in the High Castle
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]]> The Man in the Brown Suit 20438760 102 John Kolchak 0984013024 Jack 5 3.06 2014 The Man in the Brown Suit
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]]> <![CDATA[Haymarket Square: The Story of Alex Bobrov]]> 13390776 222 John Kolchak 0984013008 Jack 5 4.13 2011 Haymarket Square: The Story of Alex Bobrov
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]]> Next Year in Jerusalem 25863218
As first century Judea bleeds from the oppression of Roman rule and the violent uprisings against it, Yeshua, tormented by familial guilt for abandoning his mother, eventually forms his own family of travelers who preach for peace and compassion in the face of internecine savagery. Their wanderings lead to encounters with false prophets, assassins, and a rapidly growing movement of extremist rebels whose leader Bar-Abbas� mission is to expel the Romans and establish an ethnocentric theocracy.

Chance sends both Yeshua and Bar-Abbas to the court of Pontius Pilate—the dipsomaniac Governor obsessed with leaving a name for himself in the scrolls of history—and the outcome of that meeting alters the fate of the world for the next two millennia.

With urgent parallels to contemporary issues of religious war, this book is both a lament and a warning. It is also a story about the passage of time, the nature of memory, and mankind’s inherent yearning for life everlasting.]]> 322 John Kolchak 0984013032 Jack 5 2.89 2015 Next Year in Jerusalem
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]]> Intentional Insanity 31079840 188 Jack Blare 1534713654 Jack 5 5.00 Intentional Insanity
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]]> The Stained Glass Delusion 49787386 2 Jack Blare Jack 5 5.00 The Stained Glass Delusion
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]]> Silver Chain 29203373 120 Jack Blare 1523651032 Jack 5 5.00 Silver Chain
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]]> Carcinogeneration 28199406 82 Jack Blare 1519520328 Jack 5 5.00 Carcinogeneration
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]]> Impersonating Emotion 26768724 80 Jack Blare 1511410957 Jack 5 5.00 2015 Impersonating Emotion
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]]> <![CDATA[Popular Medication for Kids: The ascent and descent of a teenage drug addict in the sundown of Western Society]]> 26767666 78 Jack Blare 1505497124 Jack 5 5.00 2014 Popular Medication for Kids: The ascent and descent of a teenage drug addict in the sundown of Western Society
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]]> People & Concrete 26769695 110 Jack Blare 1514110865 Jack 5 5.00 2015 People & Concrete
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]]> Incriminating Evidence 543222 192 Lydia Lunch 0867193808 Jack 5 3.78 1992 Incriminating Evidence
author: Lydia Lunch
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]]> <![CDATA[Lydia Lunch (Re/Search Pocketbook)]]> 15807660 112 Lydia Lunch 1889307386 Jack 4 3.78 2012 Lydia Lunch (Re/Search Pocketbook)
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]]> Gun is Loaded 2138906 256 Lydia Lunch 1906155305 Jack 5 4.15 2008 Gun is Loaded
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]]> So Real It Hurts 44581296
Through personal essays, interviews, and poetic verse, punk musician and cultural icon Lydia Lunch claws and rakes at the reader's conscience in this powerful, uninhibited feminist collection. Oscillating between provocative celebrations of her own defiant nature and nearly tender ruminations on the debilitating effects of poverty, abuse, and environmental pollution, along with a visceral revenge fantasy against misogynistic men, Lydia Lunch presents her exploits without apology, daring the reader to judge her while she details the traumas and trials that have shaped her into the legendary figure she's become.

Inserted between these biting personal essays, Lunch's thoughtful cultural insights convey a widely-shared desire to forestall inevitable cultural amnesia and solidify a legacy for her predecessors and peers. Her interview with Hubert Selby Jr. and profile of Herbert Hunke, her short unromanticized histories of No Wave and of the late Sixties, and her scathing examination of the monetization of counterculture (thanks, Vivienne Westwood!) all serve to reinforce the notion that, while it may appear that there are no more heroes, we are actually just looking for heroes in the wrong places. The worthy idols of the past have been obscured by more profitable historical narratives, but Lunch challenges us to dig deeper.

So Real It Hurts pulls the reader into a world that is entirely hers—one in which she exacts vengeance against predators with an enviable ease and exerts an almost-sexual dominance over authority, never permitting those with power to hold on to it too tightly.]]> 112 Lydia Lunch 1609809432 Jack 5 3.79 2019 So Real It Hurts
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]]> Adulterers Anonymous 1217492 110 Lydia Lunch 0394624122 Jack 5 3.72 1982 Adulterers Anonymous
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]]> Will Work for Drugs 6320227
“Lunch has defined the underground music and art scene for over thirty years. Predictable only in her unpredictability, she has exploited every creative outlet at her disposal, from film to books, photography to poetry.� � SF Weekly

No Wave founder Lydia Lunch’s first book, Paradoxia (Akashic Books, 2007), proved that her talent is as strong on the page as it is on the stage. Her literary talents are even more impressive and varied in this iconoclastic and uncompromising collection.

Lydia Lunch is a musician, writer, and photographer. She was the primary instigator of the No Wave movement, and the focal point of the Cinema of Transgression.]]> 160 Lydia Lunch 1933354739 Jack 5 3.95 2009 Will Work for Drugs
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]]> Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary 764345
Lydia Lunch relays in graphic detail the true psychic repercussions of sexual misadventure. From New York to London to New Orleans, Paradoxia is an uncensored, novelized account of one woman’s assault on men.

Lydia Lunch was the primary instigator of the No Wave Movement and the focal point of the Cinema of Transgression. A musician, writer, and photographer, she exposes the dark underbelly of passion confronting the lusty demons whose struggle for power and control forever stalk the periphery of our collective obsessions.]]> 160 Lydia Lunch 1933354356 Jack 5 3.64 1997 Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary
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]]> <![CDATA[Lydia Lunch: The Need to Feed: Recipes for Developing a Healthy Obsession for Deeply Satisfying Foods]]> 13573226 176 Lydia Lunch 0789324385 Jack 5 4.31 2012 Lydia Lunch: The Need to Feed: Recipes for Developing a Healthy Obsession for Deeply Satisfying Foods
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]]> <![CDATA[A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories]]> 60707406 272 Leonard Cohen 0802160476 Jack 0 to-read 3.55 2022 A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories
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]]> Book of Mercy 158008
Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Now beautifully repackaged, the poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions.
]]> 112 Leonard Cohen 0771021828 Jack 0 to-read 4.00 1984 Book of Mercy
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]]> Book of Longing 158005 240 Leonard Cohen 0771022298 Jack 5 4.03 2006 Book of Longing
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]]> Clapton: The Autobiography 1207904
With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant and honest autobiography. More than a rock star, he is an icon, a living embodiment of the history of rock music. Well known for his reserve in a profession marked by self-promotion, flamboyance, and spin, he now chronicles, for the first time, his remarkable personal and professional journeys.

Born illegitimate in 1945 and raised by his grandparents, Eric never knew his father and, until the age of nine, believed his actual mother to be his sister. In his early teens his solace was the guitar, and his incredible talent would make him a cult hero in the clubs of Britain and inspire devoted fans to scrawl “Clapton is God� on the walls of London’s Underground. With the formation of Cream, the world's first supergroup, he became a worldwide superstar, but conflicting personalities tore the band apart within two years. His stints in Blind Faith, in Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, and in Derek and the Dominos were also short-lived but yielded some of the most enduring songs in history, including the classic “Layla.�

During the late sixties he played as a guest with Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan, as well as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and longtime friend George Harrison. It was while working with the latter that he fell for George’s wife, Pattie Boyd, a seemingly unrequited love that led him to the depths of despair, self-imposed seclusion, and drug addiction. By the early seventies he had overcome his addiction and released the bestselling album 461 Ocean Boulevard, with its massive hit “I Shot the Sheriff.� He followed that with the platinum album Slowhand, which included “Wonderful Tonight,� the touching love song to Pattie, whom he finally married at the end of 1979. A short time later, however, Eric had replaced heroin with alcohol as his preferred vice, following a pattern of behavior that not only was detrimental to his music but contributed to the eventual breakup of his marriage.
In the eighties he would battle and begin his recovery from alcoholism and become a father. But just as his life was coming together, he was struck by a terrible blow: His beloved four-year-old son, Conor, died in a freak accident. At an earlier time Eric might have coped with this tragedy by fleeing into a world of addiction. But now a much stronger man, he took refuge in music, responding with the achingly beautiful “Tears in Heaven.�

Clapton is the powerfully written story of a survivor, a man who has achieved the pinnacle of success despite extraordinary demons. It is one of the most compelling memoirs of our time.]]> 343 Eric Clapton 038551851X Jack 3 3.82 2007 Clapton: The Autobiography
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]]> The Favorite Game 90591 248 Leonard Cohen 1400033624 Jack 0 to-read 3.89 1963 The Favorite Game
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]]> Beautiful Losers 102908
First published in 1966, Beautiful Losers demonstrates that its author is not only a superb songwriter but also a novelist of visionary power. Funny, harrowing, and fiercely moving, it is a classic erotic tragedy, incandescent in its prose and exhilarating for its risky union of sexuality and faith.]]> 243 Leonard Cohen 0679748253 Jack 5 3.62 1966 Beautiful Losers
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]]> Let Us Compare Mythologies 403541 79 Leonard Cohen 0061173754 Jack 5 3.93 1956 Let Us Compare Mythologies
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]]> Chronicles, Volume One 14318 "I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else." So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles: Volume One, his remarkable book exploring critical junctures in his life and career.

Through Dylan's eyes and open mind, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he first arrives in Manhattan. Dylan's New York is a magical city of possibilities -- smoky, nightlong parties; literary awakenings; transient loves and unbreakable friendships. Elegiac observations are punctuated by jabs of memories, penetrating and tough. With the book's side trips to New Orleans, Woodstock, Minnesota and points west, Chronicles: Volume One is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times.

By turns revealing, poetical, passionate and witty, Chronicles: Volume One is a mesmerizing window on Bob Dylan's thoughts and influences. Dylan's voice is distinctively American: generous of spirit, engaged, fanciful and rhythmic. Utilizing his unparalleled gifts of storytelling and the exquisite expressiveness that are the hallmarks of his music, Bob Dylan turns Chronicles: Volume One into a poignant reflection on life, and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art.]]> 320 Bob Dylan 0743244583 Jack 5 3.98 2004 Chronicles, Volume One
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]]> Love Is a Dog from Hell 23534 A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.

Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a “passionate madman.� Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love—its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power.]]> 312 Charles Bukowski 0876853629 Jack 0 to-read 4.01 1977 Love Is a Dog from Hell
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]]> Four Quartets 80410 56 T.S. Eliot 0571068944 Jack 0 to-read 4.37 1943 Four Quartets
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]]> <![CDATA[The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems]]> 118389
This Shmoop Poetry Guide offers fresh analysis, a line-by-line close reading of the poem, examination of the poet's technique, form, meter, rhyme, symbolism, jaw-dropping trivia, a glossary of poetry terms, and more. Best of all, Shmoop's analysis aims to look at a topic from multiple points of view to give you the fullest understanding.



Experts and educators from top universities, including Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Harvard, have written Shmoop guides designed to engage you and to get your brain bubbling. Shmoop is here to make you a better lover (of poetry) and to help you make connections to other poems, works of literature, current events, and pop culture. For more information, check out



"Smart and consistently humorous." - The Academy of American Poets]]> 44 T.S. Eliot 0848809971 Jack 5 4.32 1915 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
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]]> The Complete Poems 138134
Upon its publication in 1978, Jack Stillinger's The Poems of John Keats won exceptionally high praise: "The definitive Keats," proclaimed The New Republic--"An authoritative edition embodying the readings the poet himself most probably intended, prepared by the leading scholar in Keats textual studies."

Now this scholarship is at last available in a graceful, clear format designed to introduce students and general readers to the "real" Keats. In place of the textual apparatus that was essential to scholars, Stillinger here provides helpful explanatory notes. These notes give dates of composition, identify quotations and allusions, gloss names and words not included in the ordinary desk dictionary, and refer the reader to the best critical interpretations of the poems. The new introduction provides central facts about Keats's life and career, describes the themes of his best work, and speculates on the causes of his greatness.]]> 416 John Keats 0679601082 Jack 0 to-read 4.25 1820 The Complete Poems
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]]> <![CDATA[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]]> 732562 "Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere") is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written circa 1797 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. Modern editions use a later revised version printed in 1817 and featuring a gloss. Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it was a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature.

It relates the events experienced by a mariner who has returned from a long sea voyage. The Mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. The Wedding-Guest's reaction turns from bemusement to impatience, fear, and fascination as the Mariner's story progresses, as can be seen in the language style: for example, the use of narrative techniques such as personification and repetition to create a sense of danger, or the supernatural, or serenity, depending on the mood each different part of the poem.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772�1834) was an English poet, critic and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England, and one of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1792) and 'Kubla Khan' (1816), as well as his major prose work 'Biographia Literaria' (1817).]]> 77 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 0486223051 Jack 5 3.95 1798 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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]]> The Collected Poems 133906
Alongside such famous works as "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and Montage of a Dream Deferred, The Collected Poems includes the author's lesser-known verse for children; topical poems distributed through the Associated Negro Press; and poems such as "Goodbye Christ" that were once suppressed.Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, the result is a treasure of a book, the essential collection of a poet whose words have entered our common language.]]> 736 Langston Hughes 0679764089 Jack 0 to-read 4.36 1994 The Collected Poems
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]]> Collected Poems, 1909-1962 142080
Poet, dramatist, critic, and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of Collected Poems 1909-1962 includes his verse from Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) to Four Quartets (1943), and includes such literary landmarks as 'The Waste Land' and 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats'.]]> 240 T.S. Eliot 0151189781 Jack 4 4.30 1963 Collected Poems, 1909-1962
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]]> The Raven and Other Poems 269322
The Raven . . . Annabel Lee . . . Ulalume . . . these are some of the spookiest, most macabre poems ever written, now collected in this chilling, affordable volume.

Dreams
The Lake
Sonnet � To Science
[Alone]
Introduction
To Helen
Israfel
The Valley of Unrest
The City in the Sea
To One in Paradise
The Coliseum
The Haunted Palace
The Conqueror Worm
Dream-Land
Eulalie
The Raven
["Deep in Earth"]
To M.L.S___
Ulalume � A Ballad
The Bells
To Helen [Whitman]
A Dream Within a Dream
For Annie
Eldorado
To My Mother
Annabel Lee]]> 73 Edgar Allan Poe 0439224063 Jack 4 4.32 1845 The Raven and Other Poems
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]]> Illuminations 565149 182 Arthur Rimbaud 0811201848 Jack 0 to-read 4.37 1875 Illuminations
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]]> The Complete Poetry and Prose 782580 990 William Blake 0385152132 Jack 5 4.26 1913 The Complete Poetry and Prose
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]]> ʳè 81864 Brytanik
Berenika
Ifigenia
Fedra]]> 55 Jean Racine 203034785X Jack 0 to-read 3.70 1677 ʳè
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]]> Les Fleurs du Mal 203220 Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) remains powerful and relevant for our time.

In Spleen et idéal," Baudelaire dramatizes the erotic cycle of ecstacy and anguish--of sexual and romantic love. Tableaux Parisiens condemns the crushing effects of urban planning on a city's soul and praises the city's anti-heroes including the deranged and derelict. Le Vin centers on the search for oblivion in drink and drugs. The many kinds of love that lie outside traditional morality is the focus of Fleurs du Mal while rebellion is at the heart of éDZٱ.]]> 365 Charles Baudelaire 0879234628 Jack 5 4.23 1857 Les Fleurs du Mal
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]]> <![CDATA[The Waste Land and Other Poems]]> 400412 Librarian Note: Also available as an Alternate Cover Edition.

“And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you
I will show you fear in a handful of dust�

When The Waste Land was published in 1922, initial reaction to the poem was decidedly negative. Critics attacked the poem's "kaleidoscopic" design, and nearly everyone disagreed furiously about its meaning. The poem was even rumored to a hoax. Eventually, though, The Waste Land went on to become what many regard as the most influential poem written in English in the twentieth century.

"In ten years' time," wrote Edmund Wilson in Axel's Castle (1931), "Elliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English." In 1948, T.S. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Price "for his work as a trail-blazing pioneer of modern poetry."

In addition to the title poem, this selection includes "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Geronition," "Ash-Wednesday," and other poems from Eliot's early and middle work.

Includes:
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Preludes
- Gerontion
- Sweeney Among the Nightingales
- The Waste Land:
I. The Burial of the Dead
II. A Game of Chess
III. The Fire Sermon
IV. Death by Water
V. What the Thunder Said
Notes on 'The Waste Land'
- Ash-Wednesday
-J ourney of the Magi
- Marina
- Landscapes:
I. New Hampshire
II. Virginia
III. USK
- Two Choruses from 'The Rock']]> 88 T.S. Eliot Jack 5 4.24 1922 The Waste Land and Other Poems
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]]> <![CDATA[Songs of Innocence and of Experience]]> 171547 Songs of Innocence and of Experienceis an collection of poems byWilliam Blake.

Note: For a complete Table of Contents of the included poems, see the 'Questions' section below.

This book appeared in two phases. A few first copies were printed and illuminated by William Blake himself in 1789; five years later he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titledSongs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.

The work compiles two contrasting but directly related books of poetry by William Blake. Songs of Innocence honors and praises the natural world, the natural innocence of children and their close relationship to God. Songs of Experience contains much darker, disillusioned poems, which deal with serious, often political themes. It is believed that the disastrous end to the French Revolution produced this disillusionment in Blake. He does, however, maintain that true innocence is achieved only through experience.]]> 56 William Blake 1420925806 Jack 5 4.10 1794 Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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]]> The Waste Land 34080 The Waste Land, first published in 1922, is often regarded as T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, as well as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry.

The work, divided in 5 sections, juxtaposes the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King, with a snapshot of early twentieth-century British society. In contemporary times, it is often read published within The Waste Land and Other Poems and has come to be Eliot's most popular poem.

T.S. Elliot was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Born in 1888 in St. Louis (MO, USA), he is considered one of the 20th century's major poets, and a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry."In ten years' time," wrote Edmund Wilson in Axel's Castle (1931), "Elliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English." In 1948, Eliot was awarded the Nobel Price "for his work as a trail-blazing pioneer of modern poetry."]]> 288 T.S. Eliot 0393974995 Jack 5 4.11 1922 The Waste Land
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]]> The Collected Poems 2078076 384 Sylvia Plath Jack 4 4.45 1981 The Collected Poems
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]]> <![CDATA[Watchmen #1: At Midnight, All The Agents� (Watchmen, #1)]]> 17856572 34 Alan Moore Jack 5 4.33 1986 Watchmen #1: At Midnight, All The Agents… (Watchmen, #1)
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]]> V for Vendetta 5805 "Remember, remember the fifth of November..."

A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedom and identity in a chillingly believable totalitarian world, V for Vendetta stands as one of the highest achievements of the comics medium and a defining work for creators Alan Moore and David Lloyd.

Set in an imagined future England that has given itself over to fascism, this groundbreaking story captures both the suffocating nature of life in an authoritarian police state and the redemptive power of the human spirit which rebels against it. Crafted with sterling clarity and intelligence, V for Vendetta brings an unequaled depth of characterization and verisimilitude to its unflinching account of oppression and resistance.]]> 296 Alan Moore 1401207928 Jack 5 4.26 1990 V for Vendetta
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]]> The Complete Maus 15195
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in “drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust� (The New York Times).

Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek’s harrowing story of survival is woven into the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century’s grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us.]]> 296 Art Spiegelman 0141014083 Jack 5 4.57 1980 The Complete Maus
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]]> Watchmen 472331 Watchmen, the groundbreaking series from award-winning author Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, presents a world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history—the U.S. won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still president, and the Cold War is in full effect.

Considered the greatest graphic novel in the history of the medium, the Hugo Award-winning story chronicles the fall from grace of a group of superheroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the superhero is dissected as an unknown assassin stalks the erstwhile heroes.]]> 416 Alan Moore 0930289234 Jack 5 4.38 1987 Watchmen
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]]> <![CDATA[Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)]]> 15196
A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written—Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author’s father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.

Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma.]]> 159 Art Spiegelman 0394541553 Jack 5 4.39 1986 Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
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]]> The Art of War 10534 170 Sun Tzu Jack 5 3.98 -400 The Art of War
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)]]> 68527
The story is seen through the eyes of Uhtred, a dispossessed nobleman, who is captured as a child by the Danes and then raised by them so that, by the time the Northmen begin their assault on Wessex (Alfred’s kingdom and the last territory in English hands) Uhtred almost thinks of himself as a Dane. He certainly has no love for Alfred, whom he considers a pious weakling and no match for Viking savagery, yet when Alfred unexpectedly defeats the Danes and the Danes themselves turn on Uhtred, he is finally forced to choose sides. By now he is a young man, in love, trained to fight and ready to take his place in the dreaded shield wall. Above all, though, he wishes to recover his father’s land, the enchanting fort of Bebbanburg by the wild northern sea.

This thrilling adventure—based on existing records of Bernard Cornwell’s ancestors—depicts a time when law and order were ripped violently apart by a pagan assault on Christian England, an assault that came very close to destroying England.]]> 333 Bernard Cornwell 0060887184 Jack 0 to-read 4.27 2004 The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)
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]]> The Kite Runner 77203 371 Khaled Hosseini 159463193X Jack 5 4.34 2003 The Kite Runner
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]]> Heart of Darkness 4900
A reflection on corruptive European colonialism and a journey into the nightmare psyche of one of the corrupted, Heart of Darkness is considered one of the most influential works ever written.]]> 188 Joseph Conrad 1892295490 Jack 5 3.43 1899 Heart of Darkness
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]]> <![CDATA[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]> 7442 416 Tom Wolfe 0553380648 Jack 0 to-read 3.93 1968 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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]]> <![CDATA[Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)]]> 23944 332 William S. Burroughs 0312278462 Jack 0 to-read 3.77 1981 Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)]]> 23937 184 William S. Burroughs 0802133290 Jack 0 to-read 3.48 1961 The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
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]]> Queer 23942 160 William S. Burroughs 0330300164 Jack 0 to-read 3.57 1985 Queer
author: William S. Burroughs
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]]> <![CDATA[And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks]]> 3297175
The next day, his clothes stained with blood, Carr went to his friends Bill Burroughs and Jack Kerouac for help. Doing so, he involved them in the crime. A few months later, they were caught up in the crime in a different way.

Something about the murder captivated the Beats, especially Kerouac and Burroughs, who decided to collaborate on a novel about the events of the previous summer. At the time, the two authors were still unknown, yet to write anything of note. Narrating alternating chapters, they pieced together a hard-boiled tale of bohemian New York during World War II, full of drugs and art, obsession and violence, with scenes and characters drawn from their own lives.

They submitted their manuscript—called And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks after an absurd line from a radio bulletin about a circus fire—to publishers, but it was rejected and confined to a filing cabinet for decades. Finally published, at long last, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks tells the story of Ramsay Allen and the object of his fixation, the charismatic, idealistic young Phillip Tourian. Phillip and his friends drink and dream in the bars and apartments of the West Village, until, with his friend Mike Ryko (Kerouac's narrator), he hatches a plan to ship out as a merchant marine. They'll catch a boat for France and jump ship, then make their way through the front to Paris.

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is an engaging, fast-paced read that shows the two authors' developing styles. It is also an incomparable artifact, a legendary novel from the dawn of the Beat movement by two hugely influential writers.]]> 214 William S. Burroughs 0802118763 Jack 0 to-read 3.74 1945 And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
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]]> Go Ask Alice 46799
Read her diary.

Enter her world.

You will never forget her.

]]> 213 Beatrice Sparks 1416914633 Jack 3 3.75 1971 Go Ask Alice
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