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It's summer, the heat is rising and so should the temperature from your books

It's Time for a BOOK CLUB, y'all.  But for discussing trash, masterpieces and trashterpieces. By which I mean, it's summer, let's heat things up a bit by reading some Shopping & Fucking Classics, inspired by Chris Haines's  Salon Article on the Shopping & Fucking Canon: " Although the Times tends to trumpet its cultural epiphanies, there is nothing “new” about the Jacqueline Susann Zeitgeist. Stories about horny, drug-addled women never  stopped  fueling the mass market paperback industry. What exactly does the paper of record think we’ve been reading at the beach and on planes for the past 15 years? Ben Bradlee? If the reissue of “Valley of the Dolls” signifies anything, it is the canonization of the great unsung literary genre of the late 20th century: the Shopping and Fucking Novel." What *have* we been reading on beaches and airplanes? So the first question is - what on earth should be our first book? Let me know and keep in mind one o
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