A Walk on The Wild Side (Tales from The Wild Side Book 7)

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It's the start of an adventure for amiable George who wants to do more than play at the club - he wants to become a fully fledged master, owning the best slaves that money can buy. He obviously has the collateral to afford them, but sadly for George he doesn't have the credentials in the eyes of the gay slave trade's governing body - The Guild of Masters.

But Angus takes a liking to George and decides to help his cause. Of course 'The Master of The Wild Side', who is also a master of manipulation, has his own agenda in wanting to help.

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A stay at Bears Den, a slave training camp that MacLeod owns, is the first step proposed. It's there that George can learn what it takes to be a master, while the reader can catch up with the successful candidates from 'Boot Camp Week' and see how things have progressed after their first month of formal training. It's not just George who is 'Reaching for The Wild Side' - those twelve trainees are reaching as well, hoping for the life of their dreams, which could well involve a Euro millionaire, who's easy on the eye and a bit of a stud once he gets going.

But of course Angus MacLeod is also reaching for something, and that means there has to be a big twist, which come in the form of an established character who gets to share the starring role in this tale. Read more Read less. Kindle Cloud Reader Read instantly in your browser. Customers who bought this item also bought. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. Jack's Lads in Trouble Box Set. The Vorinov Trilogy Box Set. Product details File Size: May 14, Sold by: Related Video Shorts 0 Upload your video.

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Near the end Algren calls his characters outlaws and derelicts. They're lost, beaten down by the times and their own marginal lives. But he sees their elemental nature as spiritual, even angelic. Algren himself said, "The book asks why lost people sometimes develop into greater human beings than those who have never been lost in their whole lives. His answer was my last surprise. The ending made me remember the end of Wise Blood. But where Hazel Motes saw only emptiness, Dove's vision of everlasting promise serves to remind us these characters are at least God's creatures.

Here, though, God is Algren, and the final truth is that he had a deep love for his characters. Oct 10, Stephen rated it it was amazing. Lost American classic rediscovered by me! How in the world did this American classic come to fall through the cracks? From my point of view it is a novel about the depression that is an amalgam of Grapes of Wrath and Confederacy of Dunces. It is Grapes of Wrath with a profound sense of black humor.

And it has sex. The Dirk Diggler of his era. Perhaps I wax too rhapsodic there, but I do not think so. For what it is worth and if you are interested in pursuing this further you can find a spirited and enthusiastic discussion of the book here. If you have to do a paper on it or something. Be forewarned about that discussion though. Jun 16, David Bonesteel rated it it was amazing.

Nelson Algren's novel relates the adventures of Dove Linkhorn, an illiterate young man who leaves poverty and a failed love affair behind him to wander the countryside. He has many adventures along the way until he settles for a time in New Orleans, where he will experience happiness and great tragedy. Linkhorn is an appealing character, whose desire to better himself makes him easy to sympathize with. The real star of this novel, however, is Algren's prose.

Hemingway himself felt that Algren was Nelson Algren's novel relates the adventures of Dove Linkhorn, an illiterate young man who leaves poverty and a failed love affair behind him to wander the countryside. Hemingway himself felt that Algren was one of the best writers in America, although their styles couldn't be more different.

In contrast to Hemingway's stark, deceptively simple prose, Algren's is full of flourishes and wordplay. I have never encountered a writer that was more adept at breaking my heart and making me laugh out loud on the same page--sometimes in the same paragraph.

There are verbal fireworks going off in this book. His characters are extreme types living on the fringe of society, but Algren makes them come alive. Aug 07, Brian Engelhardt rated it it was amazing.

Pimps, prostitutes, alcoholics, thieves, drug addicts, drifters, abortionists, scam artists, barflies. Algren wrote about the kinds people and places that he knew best and his work reads like dark poetry. An amazing command of the English language! Aug 03, Jerod Duris rated it it was amazing. I put this one off for a long time, knowing it was Algren's most popular, but then I kept encountering references to it involving Hunter Thompson. It is clearly the most outstanding of the Algren books I've read.

A brilliant feat of modernism, like a cross between Grapes of Wrath and Naked Lunch. Jan 27, Julie rated it it was amazing Shelves: I can't remember the last time I read something so beautifully written. Algren had an ear for the poetry of regional al speech and the wisdom of the uneducated.

I couldn't put it down. Feb 25, The Literary Chick rated it it was amazing Shelves: If you like your characters damaged and your prose poetic, this is the book for you. No author does it better. Jan 01, Reid rated it really liked it Shelves: I owe Algren a review. He's definitely skilled, and attuned to the bittersweet, to the chasm that occurs between feelings and behavior, especially when it comes to romance or dalliance, and perhaps especially with the down-and-out and poor. The sympathy comes across, but it feels not as if it's the narrator's sympathy, but only our own.

Algren rides a fine line, as if it's simply his element, the stuff he breathes, and he places us right there, in the dried dirt of Texas and anything-goes New Or I owe Algren a review. Algren rides a fine line, as if it's simply his element, the stuff he breathes, and he places us right there, in the dried dirt of Texas and anything-goes New Orleans during the great depression, amidst the bars and whorehouses and poverty stricken streets. Some passages and scenes are just perfectly expressed, and his penchant for rhyming words is a kick.

Dove got a slab of cornbread in molasses and a stack of beans piled so neatly they appeared to have been counted one by one. When he considered how many he had picked he felt that, percentage-wise, he was getting a bad count. In part the book is about the education or maturation of Dove, but it's a tough path and he's on his own, being essentially a runaway from his dead end life with his preacher widower father and his drunken brother.

While the moon that could never wane looked on, on brandy, silver comb and wine Keeping time to the rolling man lashed fast between those black-meshed thighs, breathing her breath as she breathed his till she moaned his lips apart Her eyelids fluttered in the drains of her passion - it had not happened to her before like this. Fitz had felt the flutter against his cheek. The pianola roll whispered on and on, it had not happened to him before so heart-shakingly as this. Drinkers and dancers, gaffers and gamblers, all had gone.

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See you in jail. See you all in jail! Apr 14, Sumner Wilson rated it it was amazing. What did I think? Thought it was great. Crest books reprinted it in paperback in ' We follow the insane adventures--misadventures--of Dove Linkhorn, a red-neck illiterate from Aurora, Texas, by rail. Freight, that is, in boxcars he jumps on his way out of town. He splits from Aurora because of a fall from grace from the gal he falls in love with, Terasina, his employer. This is a sad mistake. Terasina comes tearing downstairs and tosses old Dove out her joint on his head. This, of course, is why he splits.

He meets up with a young seventeen years old gal, but she is more like two-thousand years old in experience. She is nabbed, but Dove escapes, and hits the rails again. In New Orleans his eyes are knocked out by the marvels of this amazing city of all sins.

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By and by, he links up with a pimp who recognizes Dove's talents as a cocksman, and puts him to work having his way with "virgins" while paid perverts peek through peepholes to watch Dove's expertise with the "virgins. Dove can't stand up under the weight of his success, however, and is well on his way to the gutter via the bottle. He is saved by an octoroon beauty, Hallie, who goes into hiding with Dove, and among other things teaches him to read.

The problem is, Hallie has a jealous boyfriend. A cat name of Schmidt who has one leg off at the knee, the other one off at the hip, and gets around right fine on a flat-board scooter he straps himself onto. Before he lost his legs, Schmidt had been an awesome athlete who was employed as a stooge in a wrestling team making decent dough.

Schmidt still has enormous strength in his shoulders and arms, and is feared from one end of old Perdido Street to the other. He starts on a search for Dove and Hallie--well, he couldn't care less about Dove, but just wants Hallie back. In the meantime, Dove gets tossed into jail, which saves him temporarily. When he gets out the jug six-months later, Schmidt still hasn't found Hallie. He does find Dove, however, in Dockerty's Dollhouse, a saloon that bills itself as the last speakeasy in the country.

A wild and hellish place. What happens next I'll leave to those who want to read it for themselves.

But it is a great read. A fellow by name of E. Hemingway--who'n hell is he? It's late and time goes by too damned fast as 'tis, and I've spent way too much of it on this review. Jeez, how many words have I wasted?

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Dec 04, Richard rated it it was amazing. Nov 28, Shelly Soukup rated it really liked it. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Jul 05, Ryan Holiday rated it really liked it. A story about the old French Quarter and New Orleans of the s. A story encompassing midget pimps, legless former circus strongmen, Southern aristocrats suffering from "black mammy syndrome," conniving door-to-door salesmen, prostitutes, hustlers, runaways named Kitty Twist, the sane, the insane, the homeless, the insane sane homeless masquerading as eighteenth century admirals, and condom factories.

A story of delicate depth and one of those novels that works best when viewed as a whole. The thud of resonation doesn't occur until the last few pages. The language distracts at points. Sometimes it seems as if Algren was trying too hard for a singsong cadence in his prose -- obvious rhymes, seemingly forced alliteration. Algren should be read.

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Jul 28, Phillip rated it really liked it Shelves: A really great work from a now underestimated writer. Algren's story of the Depression-era New Orleans underworld is riveting--not only for its depictions of prostitutes, pimps, junkies, and conmen, but because of the enigmatic protagonist. Dove Linkhorn is a paradoxical figure, at once seemingly ignorant and yet strangely talented.

Dove is gifted with an unrealistic sexual capacity and a natural talent for math, yet his identity remains incomplete based on his illiteracy. What's really very inte A really great work from a now underestimated writer. What's really very interesting about this novel is the thematic death drive return to the site of trauma.

Dove rapes his first love, thus symbolically cutting himself off from the world she represents i. After leaving her he eventually becomes a peep show performer, acting out scenes of rape and sexual violence--thus recreating the site of his trauma. Only when he is able to return to his first love, having learned to read and then been blinded in a bar fight, is there hope for Dove's redemption.

May 04, Anne Simpson rated it liked it. Though the writing is very impressive - descriptive, ironic, poetic, I couldn't get into the story because none of the characters is developed enough for me to care much about them. It felt long and repetitious. Many of the characters seemed like caricatures rather than real people. Dove Linkhorn, the main character, was some what sympathetic though not entirely, as he often contributed to his own situation.

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