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bjook rated The crying of lot 49: 5 stars
The crying of lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (Perennial fiction library)
The Crying of Lot 49 is a novel written by American author Thomas Pynchon and published in 1966. The shortest …
bjook rated Story of the eye: 5 stars
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes into the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Like the …
Larry Kramer: Faggots (2000, Grove Press)
Faggots by Larry Kramer
It is a portrayal of 1970s New York's very visible gay community in a time before AIDS.
bjook rated The Atrocity Exhibition: 5 stars
bjook rated Guide (Cooper, Dennis): 5 stars
Crash by J. G. Ballard
The definitive cult, post-modern novel – a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism. When our narrator smashes his car …
Period by Dennis Cooper (George Miles Cycle, #5)
The stunning conclusion to Dennis Cooper's five-book cycle, Period earned its author the accolade "a disquieting genius" by Vanity Fair …
Frisk by Dennis Cooper, Claro
bjook rated A Sport and a Pastime: 5 stars
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
A Sport and a Pastime (1967) is a novel by the American writer James Salter.
bjook rated The Argonauts: 5 stars
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson, Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of “autotheory” offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, …
bjook rated Beautiful World, Where Are You: 5 stars
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome …
Whatever by Michel Houellebecq
"Ever found yourself all at sea at work? Suffered from information overload?" "If you have, Houellebecq's grim, funny and clever …