David J Rappaport Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Quiet American
Graham GreeneDavid J RappaportOn a train from Singapore through Malaysia to Southern Thailand I traded another traveler the French novel I had just finished reading for The Quiet American by Graham Greene. The narrator is an expatriate journalist living in Vietnam, in the practice of smoking opium
Paperback, 2004
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Queer
William S. BurroughsDavid J RappaportI was reading Burroughs last night - QUEER - a semi-fictionalized third-person account of “William Lee’s” experiences living in Mexico City and South America after Burroughs fled Mexico for points South after shooting his wife in the forehead in a drunken game of William Tell
Paperback, 2022
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William S. BurroughsDavid J RappaportI came across this term reading Queer by William S Burroughs and seemed to remember it being said by Susan Turner in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer. It seems possible that circa the 1940s this was slang pronunciation of “RIGHT!”
Paperback, 2022
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The Shining
Stephen KingDavid J RappaportStephen King as a young father, wrote The Shining. When I was raising my sons at a certain point I made the conscious decision to forget about what I wanted in life
Paperback, 2013
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Sun and Steel
Yukio MishimaDavid J RappaportThis may seem difficult to understand but the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima committed ritual suicide in the prime of life from his point of view and in his book Sun and Steel he talks about this ideal - of death in the prime of life
Paperback, 2024
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