Waiting Period
By: Hubert Selby Jr.
3.36
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A man pulls back from the brink of suicide when his application to buy a gun with which to shoot hi…
Want to Read $ 11.99"I have joined an ancient fraternity. I have killed a man."-Hubert Selby Jr., Waiting Period
"Bodies need poison. Withdrawals without it. Toxin-free airs a killer."-Hubert Selby Jr., Waiting Period
"Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Help me. Please, help me. If you really exist, you skinny jew bastard, help me kill myself."-Hubert Selby Jr., Waiting Period
"The natives knew better than to screw around with Tarzan. He was one bad dude. Lions, rhinos, just him and his knife. Great penthouse and elevator. Wouldnt last long in Brooklyn. Busted for indecent exposure. Me Tarzan you Judge. That is absolutely correct, and you are going to do sixty days. Try dressing as Beau Brummel the next time. Next case!"-Hubert Selby Jr., Waiting Period
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1. Lullaby
By: Chuck Palahniuk
3.74
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. Aft… read more
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"I'm in love. So kill me."-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
"Anymore, no one's mind is their own."-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
"We're all of us haunted and haunting."-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
"Some people still think knowledge is power."-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
2. More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns
By: Charles Bukowski , David Stephen Calonne
4.01
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
In 1967, after toiling unrewarded for many years, Charles Bukowski found fame with his weekly autob… read more
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"Only the strong can live alone, the strong and the selfish."-Charles Bukowski, More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns
"God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last."-Charles Bukowski, More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns
"A woman always wants to find the core, tame it, mold it; a wise man never shows the core to a woman. He just gives her a shot of light, shuts it off, becomes himself again."-Charles Bukowski, More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns
"Mindig is jobban éreztem magam egyedül. Amikor az ember egyedül van, az egyetlen problémája önmaga. Jobb úgy. Mert elkerül a baj. Én rendes ember vagyok. Ezt tudtam magamról."-Charles Bukowski, More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns
3. Naked Lunch
By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz
3.46
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more
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"Exterminate all rational thought"-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
4. Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
By: David Wojnarowicz
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection o… read more
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"I carry silence like a blood-filled egg."-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
"When they invented the car they invented the collision and the darkness of what time leads the willing body to do."-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
"I crawled through the walls of every social taboo I could come across. I wanted to celebrate everything we are denied through structure of laws or physical force. I just did it quietly and anonymousl…"-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
"I wanted to be physically erased and start over again. I didn’t want to be here. I didn’t want to be there. I guess I wanted to be nowhere, I wanted to listen to my brain talk inside of nothingness. …"-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
5. Ape and Essence
By: Aldous Huxley
3.74
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
In February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. It is over a c… read more
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"The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much."-Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence
"It is a scene of Satyrs and Nymphs, of pursuits and captures, provocative resistances followed by the enthusiastic surrender of lips to bearded lips, of panting bosoms to the impatience of rough hand…"-Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence
"- Da, e lucru îngrozitor să cazi în mâinile răului reîncarnat. - Atunci, întreabă doctorul Poole, de ce continuați să-L venerați? - De ce arunci mâncare unui tigru care mârăie?Ca să câștigi un moment…"-Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence
6. Hell Screen
By: Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
4.20
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
"There can be no doubt that Akutagawa had more individuality than any other writer of his time and… read more
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"He was said to have survived starvation by eating human flesh, after which he had the strength to tear out the antlers of a living stag with his bare hands."-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
"People used to say that on moonless nights Her Ladyship's broad-skirted scarlet trousers would glide eerily along the outdoor corridor, never touching the floor."-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
"I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them were giving him joy b…"-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
"Still more horrible was the color of the flames that licked the latticed cabin vents before shooting skyward, as though - might I say? - the sun itself had crashed to earth, spewing its heavenly fire…"-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
7. Waiting Period
By: Hubert Selby Jr.
3.36
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A man pulls back from the brink of suicide when his application to buy a gun with which to shoot hi… read more
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"I have joined an ancient fraternity. I have killed a man."-Hubert Selby Jr., Waiting Period
"Bodies need poison. Withdrawals without it. Toxin-free airs a killer."-Hubert Selby Jr., Waiting Period
"Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Help me. Please, help me. If you really exist, you skinny jew bastard, help me kill myself."-Hubert Selby Jr., Waiting Period
"The natives knew better than to screw around with Tarzan. He was one bad dude. Lions, rhinos, just him and his knife. Great penthouse and elevator. Wouldnt last long in Brooklyn. Busted for indecent …"-Hubert Selby Jr., Waiting Period
8. Generation A
By: Douglas Coupland
4.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Now you young twerps want a new name for your generation? Probably not, you just want jobs, right?… read more
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9. Laughter in the Dark
By: Vladimir Nabokov
4.01
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
"Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, h… read more
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"Death often is the point of life's joke."-Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark
"[S]urely the Cupid serving him was lefthanded, with a weak chin and no imagination."-Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark
"Death," he had said on another occasion, "seems to be merely a bad habit, which nature is at present powerless to overcome."-Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark
"A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s w…"-Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark
10. Story of the Eye
By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson
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Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more
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"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
11. Tales of Ordinary Madness
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3.40
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Inspired by D.H. Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme and has… read more
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12. Augustus
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3.11
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves' I, Claudius, Augustusi… read more
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13. Exterminator!
By: William S. Burroughs
3.87
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself… read more
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14. Queer
By: William S. Burroughs
3.84
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Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma - both an unflinching … read more
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15. Junky
By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris
3.84
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Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more
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16. Under the Volcano
By: Malcolm Lowry
3.77
Format: 423 pages, Paperback
Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise… read more
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"Even almost bad poetry is better than life"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"My lover. Oh come to me again as once in May."-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"The dead. Do they sleep? Why should they, when we cannot?"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
17. Hard Rain Falling
By: None , Don Carpenter
4.14
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down… read more
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"How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your ow…"-None, Hard Rain Falling
18. My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror
By: Thomas Ligotti , None
3.87
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
When junior manager Frank Dominio is suddenly demoted and then sacked it seems there was more than … read more
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"Fear, when blended with failure, distills into a deadly brew."-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror
"Generally speaking: Expect nothing but nightmarish obscenities to be born when human heads come together in intercourse."-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror
"Every milestone in the history of the company, even when forecast with heaps of hoopla, was ultimately played out according to some secret timeline of geologic tedium, so that it was drained of all i…"-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror
"It all seemed so enticing, but like every other attraction along the world’s midway the greatest part of its appeal lay in those moments of anticipation. And after it was all over, the particular att…"-Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror
19. Trainspotting
By: Irvine Welsh , None
3.87
Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ils sont quatre amis inseparables qui ont en commun une enfance, une ville, des voisins, le chomage… read more
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20. Snuff
By: Chuck Palahniuk
3.35
Format: None pages,
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21. The Fall
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.01
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Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more
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