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rustybroadsword rated Naked lunch: 3 stars
Naked lunch by William S. Burroughs
Controversial and bizarre cult novel based on the author’s own experiences as a drug addict, first published in 1959. Formed …
rustybroadsword rated Fearing the Black Body: 4 stars
Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings
There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased” and a burden …
rustybroadsword rated Homesick for another world: 5 stars
Homesick for another world by Ottessa Moshfegh
Features stories, in which the flesh is weak; the timber is crooked; people are cruel to each other, and stupid, …
rustybroadsword rated Vintage Didion: 4 stars
Vintage Didion by Joan Didion (Vintage readers)
rustybroadsword rated Homesick for Another World: 5 stars
Ottessa Moshfegh: Homesick for Another World (2018, Penguin Random House)
Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
Features stories, in which the flesh is weak; the timber is crooked; people are cruel to each other, and stupid, …
rustybroadsword rated Play It As It Lays: 5 stars
rustybroadsword rated The Lottery and Other Stories: 4 stars
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
The Lottery and Other Stories is a 1949 short story collection by American author Shirley Jackson. Published by Farrar, Straus, …
rustybroadsword rated Eileen: 4 stars
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
Dreaming of life in the city while caring for her alcoholic father and working in a 1960s boys' prison, a …
rustybroadsword rated The Long Goodbye: 5 stars
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with …
rustybroadsword rated My Year of Rest and Relaxation: 5 stars
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
It's early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side, and the alienation of Moshfegh's unnamed young protagonist from others …
rustybroadsword rated Mildred Pierce: 5 stars
Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain (Crime Masterworks)
rustybroadsword rated Farewell, my lovely: 4 stars
Farewell, my lovely by Raymond Chandler (Vintage crime)
Farewell, My Lovely is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1940, the second novel he wrote featuring the Los …
rustybroadsword rated The Garden of Rama: 3 stars
The Garden of Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Book 3 of Clarke's Rama series is about an alien ghost ship that enters the solar system. This book picks …
rustybroadsword rated Ark Sakura: 3 stars
Kobo Abe, Juliet Winters Carpenter: Ark Sakura (2021, Penguin Books, Limited)
Ark Sakura by Kobo Abe, Juliet Winters Carpenter
Mole has converted a huge underground quarry into an "ark" capable of surviving the coming nuclear holocaust and is now …