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Obscenity and Paranoia: Lenny Bruce May Have Been Talking Dirty But I Barely Understood a Word
10.22.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments“That’s great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane – Lenny Bruce is not afraid…” Lenny Bruce was a big part of making our culture what it is today. R.E.M said so. A fast-talking comedian of the early days of the counter-culture, his trials for obscenity in the early 1960s set the [...]
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Saline Testicular Enhancement and the Modern Detective Story: A Review of Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis
This is a novel that will make you feel uncomfortable, at a conservative estimate, at least once in every ten pages. It might be a little squirm, a minor fidget, or a full-on scrotum (or other anatomically appropriate body part)-tightening wince that wracks your entire body. But make no mistake, Crooked Little Vein will make [...]
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The Secret? The Alchemist Sucks
09.09.07 | Permalink | 19 CommentsI’ve been occupying my transit time with the reading of novels and other books that have nothing to do with stare decisis and substantive law. For the last week or so, I’ve been pulling out my copy of The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo. This being San Francisco, at least three different people saw me reading [...]
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What I’m Reading on the Bus: A Review of Life of Pi
This book was not what I expected it to be. I’d heard about it here and there, and the plot synopsis while simple, was intriguing enough to make me pick it up. It’s about an Indian boy who finds himself lost at sea, adrift in a rowboat with a 450 pound tiger as his only [...]
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Three-Dimensional Floating Sinew
Or something like that. There’s a fairly rave review up at the Book Covers Blog for the packaging to the new Chuck Palahniuk book I mentioned earlier. While I generally adhere to the whole “not by it’s cover” school of judging a book, I must admit that this one looks pretty damn cool. Granted, I [...]
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And on the Other Hand…
You have stuff like the Bulwer-Lytton Contest: “Like an over-ripe beefsteak tomato rimmed with cottage cheese, the corpulent remains of Santa Claus lay dead on the hotel floor.” “On reflection, Angela perceived that her relationship with Tom had always been rocky, not quite a roller-coaster ride but more like when the toilet-paper roll gets a [...]
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