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John Shirley writing as D.B. Drumm.

Michel Chaouli taught us about the silent scream, which can also be seen in _The Godfather III_, using Laocoon.

My sister got me this book for Christmas because in real life I was actually hit-on by the protagonist. He is master pick-up artist, and he gives underground seminars worldwide to rich dudes who can't score with women. The author, a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, got involved with this web of manipulators while trying to write an article for his mag. He spent two years as a major player in the underworld of female predation and lame guy education, and lived to tell all with rich insight, humor and empathy. Sorry Mom, but my memories of Christmas '05 are mostly of my rapt engagement with this F-A-S-C-I-N-A-T-I-N-G book. You know when you just can't wait to read something, AND have to manage your page allotment because you can't stand to think about finishing it? I am so excited for y'all who haven't read this one yet.

I don't know what it is about stories with a Southern flavour, but I love them. Inasmuch as I adore stories set in English countrysides with rambling walks in nippy weather, stories with a Southern twang tend to promise a quirkiness that can only come with off-kilter characters and a logic that can only make you go hmmmm.... Maggie Sweet is a sweet, sweet read - light, easy, but with a poignant punch in the gut. Nothing new really, but the telling of the story is one almost every woman can identify with. Well, that's life. :)