What are you reading right now?

Psy-Fi · 08-14-2018, 05:23 PM

Just picked up a copy of this recent repress of a 60's pulp fiction classic.

This review from an Amazon customer sums it up nicely...

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Books like this were once described somewhere as so cheap that someone could read them on the bus and leave them on the seat. Well, this reprint has all the marks. The text looks like an off-center, page-number-clipping Xerox, assumedly of the original. It's full of typos, usually just annoying, but occasionally so cryptic one has to stop and decode. And, sometimes, the latter are amusing, like "arms" misprinted as "anus".
The plot is, unsurprisingly, not reflected in the cover art, which appears to depict an older lesbian in conflict with a man over a woman. The story is, instead, little more than a device to link together the sexual encounters of a young car hop named Charlene. All the characters are, of course, excessively horny, and the uncontrolled jealousy and vengefulness that plague them result in battery, abduction, ravishment, ritualized S & M, and murder. (There's even erotic torture with turkey feathers!) The descriptions are rather explicit until they dissolve into oceanic movements as metaphors for the ultimate passion.

The Batlord · 08-14-2018, 05:32 PM

Completely unlike my MO I've heard of those kinds of books that are all about American GI's dominating female Nazis in WW2. Have always been curious.

The Batlord · 08-15-2018, 06:03 PM

I guess it was about the love between a WW2 bomber pilot and his fat Spanish housekeeper with lime-colored panties.

Mondo Bungle · 08-15-2018, 06:15 PM

Catch 22 is one of my favorite books but it still is overrated

OccultHawk · 08-15-2018, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle

Catch 22 is one of my favorite books but it still is overrated

No it’s not

Mondo Bungle · 08-15-2018, 06:26 PM

no it definitely is one of my favorite books

**Frownland** · 08-26-2018, 11:18 AM

Picture This by Joseph Heller

Snapshots of history all revolving around this painting. So far it's as wry, whimsical, ironic, and contradictory as you could expect from Heller.

OccultHawk · 09-13-2018, 07:55 AM

The Life of a Useless Man

Maxim Gorki

OccultHawk · 09-13-2018, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

Camus The Stranger

First time?

Chula Vista · 09-13-2018, 04:30 PM

By Reason of Insanity - Shane Stevens

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Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	By Reason of Insanity - Shane Stevens __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”