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Please Kill Me, The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
May 21, 2006 Legs McNeile and Gillian McCain New York, NY Dear Sir and Madam: Just finished your magnificent book, Please Kill Me, and although I found it a fascinating, disturbing, ultimately-depressing page-turner, I have two problems: First, you never … Continue reading
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Tagged Gillian McCain, Legs McNeile, non-fiction, punk rock, reviews
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The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things By Arundhati Roy As the world sinks into pathology, as my kids drift further from me, as I creak towards 53 years—pot-bellied, lonely, strange, starved for affection, grieving lost family life, I ask, Why read … Continue reading
Darcy
Finished Pride and Prejudice for the 2nd time.
Again a chore.
Most of it I wasn’t into. I was barely into the last twenty pages. The problems of two, young people in love—one filthy rich, the other comparatively well-off—misunderstanding each other, seems painfully trivial.
My real problem with the book, however, is two-fold:
First, Darcy, the hero, is an insufferable phony.
Second, I cannot believe that chicks fall for him.
Darcy is a jerk. Three reasons why: Continue reading
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