AlanWhelan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Dug a cellar, filled it with wine. Thinking of moving in. Writes fiction. Unagented. Obscure. Can't play "Ten Guitars" on ukelele, but a man must have a dream.
Dead Babies
Martin AmisAlanWhelan@zoerouth Tom Jones, Henry Fielding Nightmare Abbey, Thomas Love Peacock Almost anything by PG Wodehouse Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis Dead Babies, Martin Amis Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood Flashman in the Great Game, George MacDoonald Frazer
Paperback, 2025
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Psychopathia Sexualis: With Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual Instinct, a Medico-Forensic Study
R. V. Krafft-EbingAlanWhelan@SylviaWoodham The word "Homosexual" was coined by Karl Maria Kertberry, a human rights journalist, in 1868. Krafft-Ebing used it in "Psychopathia Sexualis" (a best-seller) in 1886, which is how it became the standard term. Wasn't Freud, whose first book, "On Aphasia", was published in 1891.
Paperback, 2013
$50.95$25.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The Girl, the Penguin, the Home-Schooling and the Gin: A Parody
W. R. FosterAlanWhelan@NickAdamsinUSA "Foursome", lol. This looks like a parody account. But I think this man is so stupid he dunno what he's saying. Nick Adams was a walking disaster area in Australia, including misuse of public money as well as the famous one-handed Starbucks incident. Seems to be the same guy.
Hardcover, 2021
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Poetical Works
Percy Bysshe ShelleyAlanWhelanHappy birdie to William Shatner! Also, because of the international date line, me! Today I get Volume Seven of the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Though I’ll pretend to be surprised. Being delighted, that won’t be a pretence. https://t.co/3hpaQzOIoC
Paperback, 2018
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Frankenstein
Mary ShelleyAlanWhelanI should write a poem about Mary Shelley. In Frankenstein (1816) she invented science fiction. But in"The Last Man" humanity dies out because of a pandemic. The Last Man is Lionel, Mary's self-portrait. His immensely noble friend, Adrian, is modelled on the dead Bysshe Shelley https://t.co/4Ino1rkHMi
Paperback, 1994
$6.00$3.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Information
Martin AmisAlanWhelanThinking about Martin Amis. I liked early Martin best. "Dead Babies", "The Information", "Other People". I liked his sentences. I mean the style of them, the freshness, clarity & wit. As he got more "literary", starting with "Money" & "London Fields, I liked his novels less. https://t.co/O1vTldzsE9
Paperback, 1996
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dracula
Stoker BramAlanWhelan@hashmiwriting Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The best vampire book. Probably the only vampire book that’s any good, even. I’ve read Stephen King and Anne Rice’s attempts. Best film prolly the one with Gazza Oldman as the Count.
Hardcover, 2014
$23.95$11.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lord Byron: Six Plays
Lord George Gordon ByronAlanWhelan@SagED_UP George Gordon, Lord Byron. The man who invented stardom, and who’d put you in a nice poem if you shagged him. “She walked her booty in the night And let me climb her starry thighs - Would that do, love?”
Paperback, 2007
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ransom of Red Chief
Henry OAlanWhelan@bellatrixrod Probably “The Ransom of Red Chief” came closest, but I’ve never actually laughed reading an O Henry story. He’s an enjoyable writer, though best taken in occasional doses, but never lol funny. IMO.
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Eros And Psyche: A Fairy Tale Of Ancient Greece (1900)
ApuleiusAlanWhelanI just sealioned someone, without meaning to. I feel something of an idiot. I'm fascinated by Apuleius's "Eros and Psyche", as all right-thinking people (ie a few nerds like me) are. So I forgot it might not be interesting to someone else, &went on discussing it. I'm an idiot https://t.co/537EJ3edwM
Paperback, 2010
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