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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
27 - but I'm counting as 1 the 1/2 of Infinite Jest and the 1/2 of The Recognitions I can never seem to get through.
The Watchmen is great and all, but at its heart, its a fucking comic book.
And that An American Tragedy makes the list is just a tragedy, period. That book is better than 2 ambiens and a scotch.
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I'm nearing the end of Tom Wolfe's latest book, "Char Simmons." THAT is a comic book.
Yet I can't put the fucker down. That cat knows how to engage the reader. And I must give him props - for a 75 year old, he nails some of the experience of growing up, and reminds you about what an insecure, or overly-secure asshole you were and came off as when you were young.
That list is a piece of shit. But I'd expect no better from a piece of shit magazine. Time and Newsweek have fallen so far down the scale I don't even read them anymore. I just throw them into the trash. Its sad. I don't want to be so wasteful, but they're like fucking J Crew. They just keep coming in the mail.
