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The Room
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Obscenity as art doesn't excite me like it once did and antiheroes are no longer interesting in and of themselves, but I'm glad these books exist. Books like these are inevitable, books that say what's obscene just because they can, because it's important that we can in the first place. "I may not agree with what you say but I'll defend to the death your right to say it," and all that.
3 stars. Absolutely vile, but written with such artistry and craftsmanship that it just might be worth it. By using sensationalism to raise all the right questions, Selby stands well above the rest of the gutter literati.
3 stars. Absolutely vile, but written with such artistry and craftsmanship that it just might be worth it. By using sensationalism to raise all the right questions, Selby stands well above the rest of the gutter literati.
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Reading Progress
June 1, 2015
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September 4, 2022
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September 4, 2022
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"Finally tackling the title at the top of the ol' To-Read list after gosh knows how many years is a weird feeling. You'd think it'd be exciting but it's more apprehensive—I'm not the same guy I was back then and I cannot recall what possessed me to add this in the first place but once a book is on there it stays there til it's read. So here goes nothin'."
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September 6, 2022
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"Anybody done a compare-and-contrast on Selby vs. Kafka already? I think that'd be my thesis for this one. "Authority: I'm against it. In the following pages I will prove..."
(my essay is post-postmodern so it's OK that I use first person)"
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(my essay is post-postmodern so it's OK that I use first person)"
September 11, 2022
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