Category Archives: Books

Amazing Fantasy #15

September 18, 2009 – 6:38 pm

Spiderman was first featured in Amazing Fantasy #15. 1962. Spiderman was first featured in Amazing Fantasy #15. August 1962. 12 cents. My father tore up the comic book thinking it was worthless and thousands of other fathers thought the same. Their sense of worthlessness only increased the worth of the comic so that today Amazing [...]

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Edgar Allan Poe Illustrations

June 6, 2009 – 8:12 pm

My grandmother had this book in her library. THE COLLECTED STORIES OF EDGAR ALLEN POE. This image scared me and all my friends, but even more terrifying was another with rats tearing at a captive man’s flesh. My grandmother bequeathed this book to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe. Especially The Narrative of Arthur Gordon [...]

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THE ITCH by Steven Hammer

March 27, 2009 – 8:38 pm

The first porno book is read was THE ITCH by Steven Hammer on Olympia Press. I must have read it 3000 times between the 1965 and 1969. The author’s blue tales of trisexual liasions between aristocrats warped my tender libido and I rejected virginity as a value. Here’s a passage from that great tome. She [...]

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ON THE ROAD meets LOLITA

March 9, 2009 – 12:40 pm

No one hitchhikes anymore. Certainly not Lolita. Not if Hubert Hubert has anything to do with it. “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.” Wasn’t this book banned by the Bush Adminstration? For a related article click on this URL http://www.mangozeen.com/2008/10/07/asia/robo-lolita.htm

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Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

February 16, 2009 – 10:55 am

I haven’t watched TV in 9 months. The entire time I’ve been back in the USA. Eric’s Palm Beach house had not TV. Malinda’s farm had no TV. Walter’s apartment in Williamsburg has no TV. I really don’t miss it, because I’ve taken up reading instead of mindlessly worshipping the offerings of western consumerism.. When [...]

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