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Volume Eleven |
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• High School Confidential
The "truth" about American teen-agers -
"...high school rebels, frantic dolls, hot-rod hipsters and jive-talking cool cats..."
Later made into a movie starring Russ Tamblyn (Riff from West Side Story). A true
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Vile Bodies •
Another story about the bad manners and bad
habits of young people. At least this one's well written, plus I like the perky
angel on the cover.
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• Take It Out In Trade
Another great sidelong glance/repressed
desire cover. The blurb on the back proclaims, "A novel of transplanted hillbillies
and the women who fleece them." I for one can't think of any topic I'd rather read
about.
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Ecstasy Girl •
That's supposed to be Virginia there,
torrid ecstasy girl from the South. And that undead manikin shambling up to her is
Earl. After a while they have a "tinglingly exciting romance". Gosh.
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• Murder On The Left Bank
One surmises that there is too much
loitering and shifty-glance-lurking-about for this to be Mr. Rogers neighborhood.
At least fancy women and philosophers are no longer the menace they once were.
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Nine To Five •
This novel describes one day at the office,
sort of like Ulysses described one day in Dublin. We've got office "backstabbings,
hatreds, jealousies, ambitions and hysteria." Who forgot the donuts?
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• Day Into Night
He was sixteen, she was twenty. He was drooling
on a purple record, she was making little talking hand puppets. All too soon, the
story continued.
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Stag Night •
Never mind Madge the Stripper for a second,
see if you can find Red Buttons and Gene Kelly in the crowd, along with two guys acting
as if they've never seen a stag before.
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