Suggestions for a 42 year-old?

[Luke Holmes]

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I absolutely adore those covers

 

[prufrock21]

You ever read Robbins? Like, his 70s stuff? Stuff like The Adventurers and Goodbye, Janette?

He was just a perverted old cokehead.

I remember reading Stiletto, but that's about it.

 

[not_nadine]

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I absolutely adore those covers

Looking at your comment and these images and your avatar face and the same time.

 

[Neesy]

Something with lots of swearing and degenerate sex. Violent. Drug usage. Nihilistic characters who treat each other terribly. A dim view of authority figures and a middle finger to polite society. A rambling, speed-induced prose style that spans hundreds of pages. People getting eaten by wild hogs, maybe, or switchblade slinging motorcycle reform schools for wayward girls run by one-eyed, sadistic crones. Corpse-grinding cannibal cults catching contagious cat viruses. Harold Robbins. Blood-n-thunder shudder pulps and bodice-busting Penny dreadfulls. Severed-head sword-n-sorcery served by suicidal southerners.

Sometimes I just a want a book to punch me in the face and treat me like a bad, bad doggie.

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There is even a story in there about Scott - "Confessions of a Private Duty Nurse"

 

[GNTLGNT]

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There is even a story in there about Scott - "Confessions of a Private Duty Nurse"

...I am nothing if not passionate about my nursing duties, but not my "charges".....

 

[Neesy]

...I am nothing if not passionate about my nursing duties, but not my "charges".....

Sorry - just a joke - I automatically thought of you!
Another one for Muskie!

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I should be so lucky!

 

[Steffen]

Not as profane by today's standards, but try The Choirboys by Joseph Wambaugh. It's got a lot of dark humour.

 

[fljoe0]

42 years old? Here's a list for ya

Books for Seniors, Nursing Home Residents, Golden Agers