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Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

For next month I'm probably going to pick either Nixonland or All the President's Men. Maybe Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Depends on what part of RMN's career you want to focus on. Nixonland revolves around the '68 and '72 elections and pretty much ignores Watergate.

Nixonland also takes a deeper dive into Nixon's personality and motivations than ATPM, which is more on the "just the facts" side.

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Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

rngd in the womb posted:

Just finished this book. The Caligula arc is legitimately absurd. Did anyone else find this book unexpectedly funny at times? I'm definitely going to get the sequel from the library pretty soon. As for suggestions, Denis Johnson recently died, so one of his books could be the BOTM. Angels, Fiskadoro, and Jesus' Son all seem to be generally well-regarded.

edit: to sell you all on Denis Johnson, here's a pdf of a short story that he did: Car Crash While Hitchhiking.

If you like that, you absolutely must watch the BBC series -- John Hurt goes all-out in playing Caligula and it's awesome.

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