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Title: Shit Magnet: One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt by Jim Goad ISBN: 0-922915-77-6 Publisher: Feral House Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.1 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Scapegoad
Comment: What I love about Jim Goad is that he refuses to back down. And why should he? Goad has the brains and strength to handle whatever comes at him. In this book he lets you know it.
Most people would back down and find the Lord, but not Goad. Through out the book he shows how and why he has been on the receiving end of other people's B.S. The amazing thing is he gets back up and keeps going. But he never comes across as a martyr, just a more angry person.
The book doesn't simplify the problems Goad has faced, but it shows there is even more to the story than what is on the surface. Sure, he has provoked some of the situations but only in very clever ways.
The circumstances leading up to Goad's imprisonment was the most interesting part of the book to me because of my personal experience that was very similar to his. Unlike him, I backed down and told people what they wanted to hear. Usually when a person is this honest they're confessing their sins and expressing their deep remorse. He doesn't feel that's necessary and it's not.
In the end, Goad makes a very strong statement about the world we live in. He demonstrates how there are two-sides to every story just like everything else. His philosophy is something I've been thinking about ever since I read the book over a year ago. That is because he is very honest and very right.
Goad's perspective on life is one that most readers should be grateful to read about rather than experience. If you have a truly open mind and want to see things from a different angle, read this book. If you want to challenge his argument and personal attack him, read this book. Nothing pleases him more than taking on the self-righteous. Once again, Goad shows his amazing ability to dismiss the B.S.
Rating: 5
Summary: Better Jim, Better than me
Comment: Goad is an honest man, beneath the many layers of mean spirited sarcasm (God bless you, Jim). As such, He's niether a hero nor a victim, as many autobiographers tend to paint themselves. Goad is merely a walking, talking, nexus of bad karma; probably passed down from his mother's side of the family.
In this book Goad openly dissects his life in an attempt to demonstrate how transfering blame allows humanity to sleep at night. It's a field trip, children, and we're all invited to take a gander at topics that you'll probably revisit again in therapy anyway.
Rating: 1
Summary: The Title Says It All
Comment: Great first book, The RM was great, but this is just the half-hearted ranting of an overrated crybaby. Obviously, Goad is a man with only one book in him, given underground credibility either b/c he spent time in prison for beating his wife or because he lives in Portland, sucking off the warm dung-squirting teat of Chuck Palahniuk.
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Title: The REDNECK MANIFESTO: HOW HILLBILLIES HICKS AND WHITE TRASH BECAME AMERICAS SCAPEGOATS by Jim Goad ISBN: 0684838648 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Contortionist's Handbook by Craig Clevenger ISBN: 1931561486 Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title: Kiss Me, Judas by Will Christopher Baer ISBN: 0670881759 Publisher: Penguin USA Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Apocalypse Culture by Adam Parfrey ISBN: 0922915059 Publisher: Amok Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Apocalypse Culture II by Adam Parfrey ISBN: 0922915571 Publisher: Feral House Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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