• Rated 5 stars

“Judge Holden is basically a more articulate and badass version of NCFOM's Anton Chigurh. Blood Meridian is much more violent than NCFOM, but a lot of the same themes appear in both. Ridley Scott is going to try to make a movie of this and he's going to fail.”

Matt G wrote this review Saturday, January 26 2008. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 2 stars

“Almost unreadable. The main problem is that Nietzsche tries to carry on his poetic discourse by making arguments in the context of a Kantian framework. Later on, he'd realize it was he who was wrong. Composer friend Richard Wagner liked this book, from what I understand. This made Nietzsche happy so he wrote an essay about the greatness of Wagner in his Untimely Meditations. Then Wagner didn't like Nietzsche's "Human, All Too Human". Nietzsche then wrote about what a worthless slag Wagner was.”

Matt G wrote this review Sunday, December 30 2007. ( reply | permalink )

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• Rated 5 stars

“"YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT MY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN THROUGH!!!" says the angry black man.

"Well," says Jim. "You don't know what my people have been through, so we're even. If you want to dwell on blame, which I suggest you not do, I recommend you blame someone besides me."

This book is an elaboration of that fictional conversation.”

Matt G wrote this review Thursday, December 27 2007. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 4 stars

“In my review I can't even use the word that appears in this book's title. I don't think so, anyway. Let me try: "Sh-t Magnet". (It didn't work.) Goad is interesting because he's a highly intelligent person who is able to articulate the "white trash" experience. Most of this book is a depressing account of the abusive language of love between Goad and his crazy girlfriend followed by Jim's subsequent prison sentence and his thoughts on how ridiculous our justice system really is.”

Matt G wrote this review Thursday, December 27 2007. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 4 stars

“Lots of guys with 17-inch penises sodomize lots of women, each with the best butt in all the land. One memorable scene involves a woman who is humped by a syphilitic and then has her vagina sewed up so that none of the befouled semen can escape. Justine and Philosophy of the Bedroom are probably the best works; 120 Days of Sodom kind of sucks because it's not so much a story as it is a list of depraved acts. Shelfari made me clean up my language in this review. I can see how this is going to be a problem.”

Matt G wrote this review Sunday, December 23 2007. ( reply | permalink )