The Godfather by Mario Puzo (1969)
"This lousy bum is a canary! If he publishes this crap
they'll be fishing pieces of his goddamn body out of the
Hudson River for the next thirty fucking years!"
Carlo Gambino
Gambino Family of Health Care Professionals
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Loading the Revolver with Real Bullets by Paul F. Fericano (1977)
"After reviewing Mr. Fericano's request, we believe he would be
a fine recruit for the Bureau's informant program."
Clarence M. Kelley
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Stinking & Full of Eels by Gary Ligi (1975)
"This (Ligi) fellow was the best damn turkey hanger we ever hired in
North Carolina. It was a shame we had to press charges."
Marvin Johnson
CEO, House of Raeford Farms
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O Wheel by Peter Sacks (2000)
"I don't do blurbs. I don't judge contests. But I perform fellatio."
Jorie Graham
Chancellor, Academy of American Poets
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Mitch on Mitch, by Mitch McConnell (1820)
"I read this book. I think I may have read it twice.
It's your turn now. And back off—I saw that bear first."
Daniel Boone (no relation)
CEO, Louisville Slugger of Kentucky
An arm of Hillerich & Bradsby
A division of Wilson Sporting Goods
A branch of Amer Sports
A subsidiary of Anta Sports (Jinjiang, China)
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Poems 1962–2012, by Louise Glück (2013)
"Her work from the 1970s makes me ashamed to be a man. The work
from the 1980s makes me wish I were a woman. Oh well, you can’t
have everything. They say that into every life a little rain must fall, but this
is a veritable shitstorm of words. What I wouldn’t give to be illiterate."
Baron Wormser
University of Applied Sciences
Worms, Germany
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The Happy Man and His Dump Truck by Miryam (1950)
"This is a book even a two-year-old might read if a two-year
old could read which I seriously doubt. Will that do?"
Theodor Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss
Author of Anne of Green Eggs and Gables
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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
"With (Heller's) debut novel, I suspect he's hoping to cash in
by using a variation on a word I used in the title of my debut
novel which was a runaway bestseller. I'm just saying."
J.D. Salinger
Author of The Catcher in the Rye
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Fun with Dick and Jane by William S. Gray (1946)
"This (book) reminds me of my childhood. Well, not really my .
childhood. But someone's childhood, I'm sure."
Richard M. Nixon
Member, U.S. House of Representatives
California, 12th district
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FORTHCOMING
The Epistles of Paul by Paul the Apostle (58 AD)
Sportsman's Digest of Fishing by Hal Sharp (1953)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene (1930)
The Pentateuch by Moses (536 BCE)
and more...
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