The surprise part would be that I might comes to like this book. Why? I have already considered the Jesus of the Bible as a doomsday preacher and a con man. Jesus didn't take a job, even when his step-father was a carpenter. Jesus hanged out with a lot of guys, fishers who have not much too d...
I really have little tolerance for haters. I'm cool with disagreement, but when a person reaches the point of throwing vehement rage at the object of their disdain, I tune out or turn off. It's counterproductive and it usually makes the hater look like a complete idiot. Enter the many books which ...
In Me and the Devil Nick Tosches may have been attempting to push the envelope with his utterly unlikable main character – an alcoholic, pedantic snob with brutish sexual proclivities. He instead succeeds in disturbing and isolating readers with the aging author’s obsessions and navel-gazing. With ...
I've read several of Nick Tosches' longish pieces in various magazine. He is a very good writer. There are passages in this book that are incredibly lyrical. His descriptions of his opiated high are often fabulous.And yet, the book is just too short. We barely scratch the surface of what is actu...
Has three stories from Kingdoms of Elfin world not included in earlier collection, just as chilly and beautiful as the others.
I'm going to give up on this one. Life's too short to listen to all this foul-mouthed egotistical babble.I get the point, the author inhabits the caricature of himself to play with your mind and undermine the foundations of "literature" and the publishing industry, but I just got bored.
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