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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jan 1, 2019 20:55:36 GMT -5
Just sent for this at the library:
Just finished this happy-ass book: 
It was astounding. Not since reading The Shoemaker have I seen an author so completely miss the point of what he was discussing. He actually thought "the liberals" and "the feminists" somehow suppressed the publication of the Grand Jury decision in the Kermit Gosnell case -- um, dude, you just put it in print yourself, along with several other authors, without being waylaid by feminists, and BTW all court decisions are a matter of public record -- and he appears to truly believe that the Gosnell case proves for all times that partial-birth abortion is murder and abortion should be outlawed because what Gosnell does is what all abortionists do. The phule appears not to realize that Gosnell's chamber of horrors is an outlier today because abortion is legal and medically supervised, and he clearly does not know that partial-birth abortion bears zero resemblance to killing a newborn with a pair of scissors. He seems not to realize that there were a lot more Kermit Gosnells running around loose before Roe. vs. Wade; in fact they may have been the norm at one time. Goldberg also may not have heard that some of the women who sought out Gosnell's services said they were afraid to go into the clean, safe Planned Parenthood offices all over the state because of the Operation Rescue protesters ringing the buildings and harassing the patients. Nobody, but nobody, was protesting at the abortion center run by the friggin serial killer. This book only supports my theory that people who harass patients at abortion clinics should be pretty much chased away with baseball bats.
Also, you used "media" with a singular verb in the title of your book. Idjit.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jan 3, 2019 19:10:29 GMT -5
Currently reading  after finally reading  |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jan 8, 2019 5:50:50 GMT -5
My 2018 reading list. As mentioned earlier, I dove pretty deep into Graham Greene for the first half. I would have had a few more titles to add to this but December was too loaded down to get much done then.
361 by Donald E. Westlake
The Human Factor by Graham Greene
The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene
A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene
Chimera by John Barth
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Ordinary Love & Good Will, two novellas by Jane Smiley
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
A World of My Own, a dream diary by Graham Greene
Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier by Mark Frost
Houses by Borislav Pekic
Pop by Simon Wilson
Einstein’s Beach House, short stories by Jacob M. Appel
Malafemmena, short stories by Louisa Ermelino
Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
Transhumanism: Engineering the Human Condition by Roberto Manzocco
The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov
Selected Stories, short stories by E. M. Forster
The Monkey Wrench by Primo Levi
Kingdom Cons by Yuri Herrera
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jan 9, 2019 13:39:26 GMT -5
For a second there I thought one item on your list said "Trash-humanism," Greenie.
Now reading
I was quite worried at first because the introduction was horrible, full of passive constructions, more footnotes than text and I even found the word "imprimatur" right next to "narrative," used in the NPR sense. Then the 44-PAGE introduction was over and the body of the book was much better. Even so, in some places 3/4 of the page is taken up by footnotes and citations. It looks as if it were going to be a shorter read than expected. Oh, and I'm reading
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Post by Deeky on Jan 10, 2019 18:44:55 GMT -5
I dove pretty deep into Graham Greene Hot. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jan 13, 2019 17:57:09 GMT -5
Just started
Patient Zero And The Making Of The AIDS Crisis was definitely not as advertised. I was led to expect it to be a biography of Gaetan Dugas. That was in there, but only after the author dragged me through a 44-page introduction and 298 pages of blathering about epidemiological methodology and scathing comments on Randy Shilts's low self-esteem, self-promotion and failure to understand CDC's charts and graphs. Once I broke through to the biography it was like being let out of a shitty grad-school class and finding myself back among the gang at East Quad. Dugas was indeed not the bogeyman Shilts created for And The Band Played On and the unlucky man's eventual death reduced me to tears. He sounds like the kind of person I would want as my best friend. In fact he reminds me a lot of a best friend of mine who also died of cancer, so that was a factor in my blubbering.
I was also genuinely peeved that in a book with up to 3/4 of every page taken up by footnotes and citations, there was one source I really wanted t track down, called the Gablevision Special on AIDS that featured a question-and-answer period with Dugas asking a lot of tough questions of the AIDS specialists. I would love to see it for myself but can I find any reference to it anywhere on Google? No, I cannot. |
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Post by Deeky on Jan 17, 2019 20:05:16 GMT -5
Found this tale about Billy's early days.  |
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Post by Deeky on Jan 17, 2019 20:17:01 GMT -5
Pretty sure this would make a good rank, too. Though, according to this cover the author may not know what rimming is.  |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 17, 2019 23:29:21 GMT -5
Found this tale about Billy's early days.
I'm not sure what's going on in that picture, but I know I want Billy himself to describe it in detail for me.
Meanwhile book-wise, the Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever 2019: The Complete Guide to Movies on Vhs, DVD, and Hi-Def Formats (Paperback) has shipped. I have the 2009 print here. Picked it up at a thrift in 2017 for $2, and while I don't always agree with them, it's a nice comprehensive film guide I've burned untold hours studying.
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Post by Deeky on Jan 17, 2019 23:35:22 GMT -5
I'm not sure what's going on in that picture, but I know I want Billy himself to describe it in detail for me. Maybe it's that lost Beetle Bailey he's been on about. |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Jan 18, 2019 10:54:42 GMT -5
I'm not sure what's going on in that picture, but I know I want Billy himself to describe it in detail for me. Maybe it's that lost Beetle Bailey he's been on about. I'll give a brief description this time. On the Young Billy Book, I can't tell if Billy is the bubble butt guy who the rest of his body and face, is out of the picture frame or not, or the guy standing next to him, probably preparing to . . . On the Roughneck Rimmer book, Deeky, you can't always judge a book by its cover, so you (that's the editorial you, sometimes "one" being the better word to use), have to actually read the book to get to the rimming parts, assuming the author did know what rimming was. And, yes, Roughneck Rimmer would be one wild and wolly member ranking. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 18, 2019 12:50:56 GMT -5
I'm not sure what's going on in that picture, but I know I want Billy himself to describe it in detail for me. Maybe it's that lost Beetle Bailey he's been on about.
The Sarge sure has it in for Beetle THIS time around! |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 18, 2019 12:52:35 GMT -5
Maybe it's that lost Beetle Bailey he's been on about. I'll give a brief description this time. On the Young Billy Book, I can't tell if Billy is the bubble butt guy who the rest of his body and face, is out of the picture frame or not, or the guy standing next to him, probably preparing to . . .
What? Preparing to WHAT?!? I said details, man!
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 18, 2019 19:27:43 GMT -5
I guess this is the book that attempted to connect several different occult tangents into one unifying theory of eeevil. I wouldn't mind reading it for laffs, but am not willing to fork over the sums expected on Amazon. It doesn't even turn up on a Walmart.com search. Coincidence...or something else?
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Jan 18, 2019 19:34:35 GMT -5
I'll give a brief description this time. On the Young Billy Book, I can't tell if Billy is the bubble butt guy who the rest of his body and face, is out of the picture frame or not, or the guy standing next to him, probably preparing to . . .
What? Preparing to WHAT?!? I said details, man!
Dr. Kobb, I think I said sometime back, in relation to describing porno in detail, I'd do it on a Members Only Thread. That probably was in relation to my transcribing the Oliver Twink dialog and describing the uh, events in the film. But, since you want details, I'll start a special "Details" thread on Members only. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 18, 2019 19:54:52 GMT -5
Heck yeah! It feels even filthier when we keep these things clandestine like that.
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Post by Deeky on Jan 18, 2019 20:08:35 GMT -5
The hardcover has a much better cover. Still no explanation why it's so fucking expensive.  |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jan 19, 2019 13:30:47 GMT -5
I guess this is the book that attempted to connect several different occult tangents into one unifying theory of eeevil. I wouldn't mind reading it for laffs, but am not willing to fork over the sums expected on Amazon. It doesn't even turn up on a Walmart.com search. Coincidence...or something else?
Kobbers, this is why you never get properly into true crime. You seem to beeline it -- every single time -- for the shittiest books imaginable. That one isn't true crime, it's a transparent attempt to connect a bunch of probably-unrelated murders into a laughable Satanic conspiracy in the most exploitative way the author could manage. It was laughed off the newsstands, and to my knowledge never even made it to a second printing. It's expensive because it's so scarce; most people threw their copies away after getting 1/3 of the way in, and unlike the good titles that stay in print forever, like Helter Skelter or Small Sacrifices, they stopped printing it quickly and threw any unsold copies into the publisher's Dumpster out back. Rule One: If the solution to the crimes described on the book's cover includes the words "conspiracy" or "cover-up," the way Maury Terry's book THE ULTIMATE EVIL does, WALK AWAY. Rule Two: If Fred Rosen wrote it, it's going to be a shitty book about a case that ought to be fascinating; wait for someone else to write about it if you want a good read on the subject. You have broken this rule more than once, sir. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 19, 2019 14:06:03 GMT -5
I guess this is the book that attempted to connect several different occult tangents into one unifying theory of eeevil. I wouldn't mind reading it for laffs, but am not willing to fork over the sums expected on Amazon. It doesn't even turn up on a Walmart.com search. Coincidence...or something else?
Kobbers, this is why you never get properly into true crime. You seem to beeline it -- every single time -- for the shittiest books imaginable. That one isn't true crime, it's a transparent attempt to connect a bunch of probably-unrelated murders into a laughable Satanic conspiracy in the most exploitative way the author could manage. It was laughed off the newsstands, and to my knowledge never even made it to a second printing. It's expensive because it's so scarce; most people threw their copies away after getting 1/3 of the way in, and unlike the good titles that stay in print forever, like Helter Skelter or Small Sacrifices, they stopped printing it quickly and threw any unsold copies into the publisher's Dumpster out back. Rule One: If the solution to the crimes described on the book's cover includes the words "conspiracy" or "cover-up," the way Maury Terry's book THE ULTIMATE EVIL does, WALK AWAY. Rule Two: If Fred Rosen wrote it, it's going to be a shitty book about a case that ought to be fascinating; wait for someone else to write about it if you want a good read on the subject. You have broken this rule more than once, sir.
So, I take it you aren't going to let me borrow your copy? 
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jan 19, 2019 14:26:48 GMT -5
Kobbers, this is why you never get properly into true crime. You seem to beeline it -- every single time -- for the shittiest books imaginable. That one isn't true crime, it's a transparent attempt to connect a bunch of probably-unrelated murders into a laughable Satanic conspiracy in the most exploitative way the author could manage. It was laughed off the newsstands, and to my knowledge never even made it to a second printing. It's expensive because it's so scarce; most people threw their copies away after getting 1/3 of the way in, and unlike the good titles that stay in print forever, like Helter Skelter or Small Sacrifices, they stopped printing it quickly and threw any unsold copies into the publisher's Dumpster out back. Rule One: If the solution to the crimes described on the book's cover includes the words "conspiracy" or "cover-up," the way Maury Terry's book THE ULTIMATE EVIL does, WALK AWAY. Rule Two: If Fred Rosen wrote it, it's going to be a shitty book about a case that ought to be fascinating; wait for someone else to write about it if you want a good read on the subject. You have broken this rule more than once, sir. So, I take it you aren't going to let me borrow your copy? Of THE ULTIMATE EVIL? I tried to read it back when it first came out. After an initial description of a horrifying ritual murder, the book descended into a level of boringness, and rank bore-osity, and flat-out snooze-a-lot boredom, so stultifying I can hardly describe it. I left the book on a bench in front of Angell Hall and wished it luck in its travels.[/div] |
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