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finished this yesterday, good read. dude catches a charge trafficking a package to an undercover cop in new york and utilizes painting to gain fame and notoriety for his case as he attempts to get clemency.

 

 

starting this one this afternoon

 

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And did anyone ever read this??? I was considering it my next read..

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i have it and Tom Wolfe's the Kandy-Kolored-Tangerine Steamline Baby.

Although I never finished Acid Tests, its not that easy of a read. Sure, that is relative but it took a while to "get in the flow" of reading it. It's hard to explain, but try it out...give it some time, though. I've heard people say it was terrible cause they could n't follow it, but I've asked people who have finished it and they seem to appreciate it after wards.

 

Personally, Wolfe's KKTSB seemed a bit more coherent (maybe cause it's not always in the realms of hallucinogenics) and was a good read.

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The book opens on a 23-year-old Frey, who appears to have lived eight lifetimes before hitting the quarter mile, and is about to throw in the towel. He is not a pretty sight: "My front four teeth are gone, I have a hole in my cheek, my nose is broken and my eyes are swollen nearly shut." His clothes are covered with spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood, liquids that come up quite often throughout the extent of the book. Delivered to his parents, he is barely conscious, yet requests that his father buy him two bottles of wine, which, amazingly, he does, and which Frey, amazingly, downs as if it were water.

 

 

im trying to pick up this book again...being an alcoholic myself. reading this book the first pages helped me before i relapsed again.

but i want to read it all the way through..

good book for anybody who has been down in the worst of worst in they're drinking.

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The book opens on a 23-year-old Frey, who appears to have lived eight lifetimes before hitting the quarter mile, and is about to throw in the towel. He is not a pretty sight: "My front four teeth are gone, I have a hole in my cheek, my nose is broken and my eyes are swollen nearly shut." His clothes are covered with spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood, liquids that come up quite often throughout the extent of the book. Delivered to his parents, he is barely conscious, yet requests that his father buy him two bottles of wine, which, amazingly, he does, and which Frey, amazingly, downs as if it were water.

 

 

im trying to pick up this book again...being an alcoholic myself. reading this book the first pages helped me before i relapsed again.

but i want to read it all the way through..

good book for anybody who has been down in the worst of worst in they're drinking.

 

 

you know this guy is a fraud, right ?

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Santana sorry for this belated response. This will be a biased opinion since I am a scifi nut and consider Herbert's works to be magnificent but, if you have an appeal for scifi Herbert is the way to go. His character development is superb and humanistic, no cliche actions, human fallibility apparent. It is a masterful blend of futuristic landscapes and technologies coupled with questions of morality, science vs. nature, socioeconomics, relevancy of religion and it's influence, and proletariat revolution.

 

Just finished up

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I'm reading Promethus Bound. An ancient play, one of the oldest we have. About a simple man who was horrifically punished by the powers that be for the terrible crime of trying to bring light to the common people. In the words of Ascyllius, "No good deed goes unpunished." I cannot tell you how much consolation I find in these slim pages.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeit

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I'm reading Promethus Bound. An ancient play, one of the oldest we have. About a simple man who was horrifically punished by the powers that be for the terrible crime of trying to bring light to the common people. In the words of Ascyllius, "No good deed goes unpunished." I cannot tell you how much consolation I find in these slim pages.

 

so good.

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He made up the whole story.

 

I knew that before I read the book and as I read it, it was pretty obvious that it was not real.

 

These two books are about the same thing and aren't made-up.

 

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This is also a good book that has helped a lot of people.

 

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