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David’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at David’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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David S. Wills
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Scientologist! William S. Burroughs and the 'Weird Cult'
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2013
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High White Notes: The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism
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2021
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Beatdom #10
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2011
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World Citizen: Allen Ginsberg as Traveller
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The Dog Farm
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2011
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Beatdom #13
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2013
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Beatdom #11
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2012
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Beatdom #7: The Music Issue
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2014
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Beatdom #22: The Jack Kerouac Special
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Beatdom 12
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My author page is here: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... Unfortunately, several of my books (and most notably the newest one) appear un ...more " |
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| A fascinating book, well-written and impeccably researched. It takes a very unusual approach to British colonial history and looks at the perspectives of British people held captive (usually as slaves) and attempts to tell their stories and--through ...more | |
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| I admit that I was curious about this book in part because of the "scandal" surrounding the alleged use of AI in writing it. This was blown all out of proportion because in fact the book features AI as a central theme and the author merely used AI to ...more | |
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| I was lucky to get a pre-publication copy of this book and I enjoyed it tremendously. I lived in South Korea long ago and even though this book is technically not set there (it takes place in a fictional country), I was instantly transported back to ...more | |
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| What a strange and wonderful book. Larkin takes us through modern and colonial Burma (now Myanmar) as she talks travel and politics and literature. The book is hard to describe but I would recommend it to anyone interested in the country, its history ...more | |
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This was by a long measure the worst book I've read in years. It is useful in fact only as a perfect guide to how books should not be written. The novel is an attack on colonialism. Ok, that's a great subject for discussion and criticism, but it was ...more |
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"DNF at 60% but I skipped around until the end. Dark academia is hot right now, and Babel was supposed to be THE dark academia novel of the year. However, I absolutely despised Babel, and here's why...
RANT INCOMING: What a boring, mean-spirited book. I" Read more of this review » |
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“Only Douglas Kahn, in his essay, “Two Sounds of the Virus,” appears to have grasped the significance of Scientology on Burroughs’ literary output, commenting: The degree to which Burroughs adopted Hubbard’s theory of recording and fused it with the virus, and the degree with which a new mythology of the space age was infused with both, was repeatedly demonstrated in his writings.”
― Scientologist! William S. Burroughs and the 'Weird Cult'
― Scientologist! William S. Burroughs and the 'Weird Cult'
“This maybe the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it—that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.”
― The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
― The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
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