Alex Degen (2023) Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Alex Degen (2023) on XLocal character, art account @ADegenart

Spawn: The Record-Breaker
Todd McFarlaneWeighing in on comics discourse and joining the two greatest minds we have; a small time con who tricked art students into paying for his house and someone whose only interest in comics is writing erotic business fanfic about Spawn’s Todd McFarlane. We’ll sort this shit out.
Paperback, 2022
$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Hero of Our Time: The Story of General Ermolov
M. Y. Lermontov@TsukihimeDemake My top character is 1. ANDREW 2. KOTATSU CAT FROM URUSEI YATSURA 3. JUMPING MAN FROM TWIN PEAKS 4. PECHORIN FROM THE PRINCESS MARY CHAPTER OF LERMONTOV’S A HERO OF OUR TIME 5. BULMA 6. JIZO (VARIOUS BUDDHIST TEXTS) 7. CUTEY HONEY 8. BEARS (VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHS OF BEARS) 9. V. LENI
Hardcover, 2010
$39.95Member price:$35.96 + Free shipping10% off
Infinite Jest
David Foster WallaceBlurry orange-ish photo of David foster Wallace’s infinite jest written ten times that acts like the zahir for the boringest online people and melts their brains https://t.co/kdtrsA0mJB
Hardcover, 1996
$40.00Member price:$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Poems
Rainer Maria RilkeGet a load of spring over here, corny motherfucking earth, earth is like a child that has memorized poems by heart - Rainer Maria Rilke (roasting the earth)
Paperback, 2019
$20.20Member price:$10.10 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Light Perpetual
Andrzej SapkowskiI’m reading andrzej sapkowski’s Light Perpetual and not feeling it. I’ve liked each book in this series less. Maybe the first one is just really good and numbers two and three aren’t idk
Paperback, 2022
$21.99Member price:$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
Walter Horatio PaterI ran Walter Pater's Conclusion of the Renaissance through the Theophosite-2 AI model and it made an excelent prompt to generate this masterpiece https://t.co/XHn6sEcxGR
Paperback, 2013
$11.11Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping10% off
Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots
Harold T. BolieuMy dream gf: -arrayed in purple and scarlet colour -decked with gold and precious stones and pearls -having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication -upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AN https://t.co/8csJnLkWZH
Paperback, 2010
$19.95Member price:$17.96 + Free shipping10% off
Unbreak My Heart: A Memoir
Toni BraxtonUnbreak my heart video where Toni Braxton is remembering all the good times she had with Tyson beckford before he died in a motorcycle crash. Just the two of them at home playing “twister”, and other memories https://t.co/P5sUvDj1eJ https://t.co/MnymjkHLQq
Paperback, 2015
$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Loved: Bad Boy Next Door Romance
Alizeh Valentine@alecrobbins @LeadingLoss Yup, loved that fight the first time but the next 30 didn’t love it so much. Beat him and think I quit at a later part where you’re fighting two groups fighting each other (not to spoil it for Michelle)
Hardcover, 2020
$25.99Member price:$12.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Poems
Maria RilkeGet a load of spring over here, corny motherfucking earth, earth is like a child that has memorized poems by heart - Rainer Maria Rilke (roasting the earth)
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