en-US Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:10:51 -0800 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 17205 320 Peter M. Bracke 1845763432 JonE 5 4.51 2005
author: Peter M. Bracke
name: JonE
average rating: 4.51
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Great great great! its like Please Kill Me but for(whats a but for?) Friday the 13th and with more pictures!
]]> 552253 301 Suzy Shaw 0978607686 JonE 0 currently-reading 3.99 2007
author: Suzy Shaw
name: JonE
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2007
rating: 0
read at: 2008/01/01
date added: 2008/01/22
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Only read a few pages, will update when finished! for now, piss off!
]]> 199448 224 Jim Bessman 0312093691 JonE 5 3.85 1993
author: Jim Bessman
name: JonE
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1993
rating: 5
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i think i stole this from someone, dont remember who, oh well, its mine now, Muhahhahahahhaa.
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Grover, now with pal Elmo by his side, has heard that there’s something lurking on the last page of the book. Grover tries his best in all sorts of hilarious ways to stop the reader from turning the pages. But, Elmo, curious as always, slips by every wacky barrier. Toddlers will find it hard to resist turning the pages too.]]> 24 Jon Stone 0307987698 JonE 0 to-read 4.43 1996
author: Jon Stone
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average rating: 4.43
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]]> 44186 "On the first page, what did that say? Did that say there will be a Monster at the end of the book???"

Read along as Grover begs you not to turn the page—because there is a monster at this end of this book!

Lovable, furry old Grover is distressed to learn that there's a monster at the end of this book! He begs readers not to turn the pages, but of course kids feel they just have to see this monster for themselves. Grover is astonished—and toddlers will be delighted—to discover who is really the monster at the end of the book!

Many adults name this book as their favorite Little Golden Book. This all-time favorite is now available as a Big Little Golden Book—perfect for lap-time reading.

Jon Stone (1931�1997) is the author of this book, but he was also Sesame Street's principal director until 1996. Working with Jim Henson, he helped create many of the Muppet characters, including Big Bird and Cookie Monster. He was also responsible for the show's format and setting. Stone contributed occasional announcer voices (such as the soap opera promo spoof "School in the Afternoon"), and served similar duty on two Muppet Meeting Films. Stone died of complications from Lou Gehrig's disease on March 30th, 1997. In his New York Times obituary, Joan Ganz Cooney describes Stone as "probably the most brilliant writer of children's television material in America".]]> 32 Jon Stone 037582913X JonE 5 4.45 1971
author: Jon Stone
name: JonE
average rating: 4.45
book published: 1971
rating: 5
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This was my favorite book when i first got it, maybe when i was 5, i dont remember, and as i was searching on good ol' goodreads.com i found out they made a follow up to it, i must have both of these books! if anyone ever sees them, please get them for me, id be willing to pay like a quarter each!
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Music was his sole occupation. Inspired by the works of Little Richard, a singer raised in a small town just miles from his own, Otis Redding knew he wanted to become a singer. This dream, his father said, would lead him nowhere, but when Otis Redding first burst onto the scene in 1962 with his R&B hit "These Arms of Mine" music enthusiasts knew they were listening to the voice of a star. With over fourteen songs gracing the top 20 chart, Otis Redding soon became a music phenomenon. Crooning tunes such as "Respect," "I Can't Stop Loving You," and "Try a Little Tenderness," Otis Redding defined a new generation of R&B music.

He solidified his position as a superstar by stealing the spotlight at concerts like the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. But at the height of his career, three days after completing his most popular song "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay," Otis Redding died in a tragic plane crash over Madison, Wisconsin.

Now, Otis!: The Otis Redding Story tells the true life story of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame legend who changed the face of R&B music. This revealing portrait is hailed as the most definitive text on the man who embodied the very essence of soul.]]> 261 Scott Freeman 0312262175 JonE 5 3.84 2001
author: Scott Freeman
name: JonE
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2001
rating: 5
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Another great book. it seems that i only read really fukkin great books!
]]> 1037272 Vanity Fair: A rollicking, funny, raunchy, and moving oral history of the adult film industry–from Deep Throat through today.

As a recent New York Times Magazine cover story pointed out to average Americans, the adult film industry is a $10 billion–per–year business. It has infiltrated the American mainstream, with its stars showing up as mainstream TV hosts, making guest appearances in Hollywood feature films, and gracing the CD covers–and arms–of rock stars and Hollywood actors alike. But what most people don't know is how the porn industry got started–with a $22,000 Mafia investment in a film called Deep Throat–or how it mushroomed over the next quarter–century despite efforts by politicians, the FBI, and others to bring it down.

The Other Hollywood tells that story, through hundreds of interviews by the people who lived through it. In the riveting oral–history format that made his first book, Please Kill Me, one of the most memorable accounts of 1970s underground culture, Legs McNeil now pulls back the grimy satin sheets on one of the most astounding success stories in the history of American business. Careening back and forth between two groups–the actresses, directors, and others who made the films and the shady underworld figures who financed them–The Other Hollywood offers scores of never–before–told stories, all in the voices of those who lived them.

Witty, always compelling, and ultimately moving, The Other Hollywood is a Hollywood Babylon for today.]]> 620 Legs McNeil 0060096594 JonE 5 I like porn. 3.84 2005
author: Legs McNeil
name: JonE
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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I like porn.
]]> 462498 251 Robert RodrĂ­guez 1602860149 JonE 5 to-read 4.19 2007
author: Robert RodrĂ­guez
name: JonE
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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]]> 1884246 112 Bert Muirhead 0713713143 JonE 5 4.00 1983
author: Bert Muirhead
name: JonE
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1983
rating: 5
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Sooooooooooo awesome! Everything you ever wanted to know about Stiff Records! Total kick ass!!!
]]> 1227069 288 Jim Drury 1860745571 JonE 0 to-read 3.58 2004
author: Jim Drury
name: JonE
average rating: 3.58
book published: 2004
rating: 0
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havent read it yet, JUST got it this past weekdend!
]]> 1703233 384 Ronnie Spector 0451411536 JonE 5 3.77 1990
author: Ronnie Spector
name: JonE
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1990
rating: 5
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]]> 895641 Motown cuts through decades of unsubstantiated rumors and speculation to tell the true behind-the-scenes narrative of America’s most exciting musical dynasty. It follows the company and its amazing roster of stars from the tumultuous growth years in Detroit, to the drama and intrigue of Hollywood in the 1970s, to resurgence in 2002.
Set against the civil rights movement, the decay of America’s northern industrial cities, and the social upheaval of the 1960s, Motown is a tale of the incredible entrepreneurship of Berry Gordy. But it also features the moving stories of kids from Detroit’s inner-city projects who achieved remarkable success and then, in many cases, found themselves fighting the demons that so often come with stardom—drugs, jealousy, sexual indulgence, greed, and uncontrollable ambition.
Motown features an extraordinary cast of characters, including Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, and Stevie Wonder. They are presented as they lived and worked: a clan of friends, lovers, competitors, and sometimes vicious foes. Motown reveals how the hopes and dreams of each affected the lives of the others and illustrates why this singular story is a made-in-America Greek tragedy, the rise and fall of a supremely talented yet completely dysfunctional extended family.
Based on numerous original interviews and extensive documentation, Motown benefits particularly from the thousands of pages of files crammed into the basement of downtown Detroit’s Wayne County Courthouse. Those court records provide the unofficial—and hitherto largely untold—history of Motown and its stars, since almost every relationship between departing singers, songwriters, producers, and the label ended up in litigation.
From its peaks in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Motown controlled the pop charts and its stars were sought after even by the Beatles, through the inexorable slide caused by their failure to handle their stardom, Motown is a riveting and troubling look inside a music label that provided the unofficial soundtrack to an entire generation.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 368 Gerald Posner 0375500626 JonE 5 3.81 2001
author: Gerald Posner
name: JonE
average rating: 3.81
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]]> 199446 312 Monte A. Melnick; Frank Meyer 1860745148 JonE 5 4.25 2007
author: Monte A. Melnick; Frank Meyer
name: JonE
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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]]> 14595 A Time Out and Daily News Top Ten Book of the Year upon its initial release, Please Kill Me is the first oral history of the most nihilist of all pop movements. Iggy Pop, Danny Fields, Dee Dee and Joey Ramone, Malcom McLaren, Jim Carroll, and scores of other famous and infamous punk figures lend their voices to this definitive account of that outrageous, explosive era. From its origins in the twilight years of Andy Warhol's New York reign to its last gasps as eighties corporate rock, the phenomenon known as punk is scrutinized, eulogized, and idealized by the people who were there and who made it happen.
]]> 488 Legs McNeil 0802142648 JonE 5 4.19 1996
author: Legs McNeil
name: JonE
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1996
rating: 5
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