Kinski Uncut

Author	L. Sprague de Camp
ISBN	1566199948

This biography relates a paradoxical, ironic literary life--that of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, who never had a book of his stories published in his lifetime, but who became a best-selling author after his death; who died in poverty and obscurity, convinced of his failure, but who is today hailed as...

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Stephen King

Before he gave us the “one of a kind classic” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir On Writing, Stephen King wrote a nonfiction masterpiece in Danse Macabre, “one of the best books on American popular culture” (Philadelphia Inquirer).

From the author of dozens of #1 New York Times bestsellers...

Author	Marquis de Sade
ISBN	1604594187

The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes. The book was written while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille and the manuscript was lost during the storming...

Author	Charles White
ISBN	0711997616

This is Nik Cohn on the subject of Little Richard:

"He looked beautiful. He wore a baggy suit with elephant trousers, 26 inches at the bottoms, and he had his hair back-combed in a monstrous plume like a fountain. Then he had a little toothbrush moustache and a round, totally ecstatic face.
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Author	Frank Zappa
ISBN	0330316257

The first third of this book is really Zappa talking in a tongue in cheek manner about his career. Unfortunately, the second two thirds is more or less ranting about people he didn't like, his politics in the 80s (which I mostly agreed with but that is NOT why I wanted to read this book) and we do not learn much...

Author	Michel Houellebecq
ISBN	1400030269

In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years.

In his early forties, Michel Renault skims through his days with as...

Author	Andrea Dworkin
ISBN	0941423883

I describe reading a great book as running downhill, but this was more like being pushed and rolled. I have so much regard for Andrea Dworkin, but I'm glad she didn't sully her reputation with a second fictional novel.

This was pretty terrible because of the way it was written...although if I...