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A Better Goodbye
By:John Schulian
Published on 2015-11-06 by Simon and Schuster

Sports Illustrated Sports Book of the Year 2015 PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Nick Pafko knows he can't be a professional boxer forever. But he never guessed it would end so quickly, and so wrong. Broke and unemployed, Nick has little choice but to call a number given to him by a friend. On the other end? Scott, a washed-up B-movie actor who runs a so-called massage parlor looking for somebody desperate enough to work security. Jenny Yee doesn't really mind massage, until the day she finds her coworkers robbed and assaulted. Fearing for her safety, she resolves to never work without security again. With mounting expenses, she knows massage is the fastest way to get paid. When an old massage acquaintance calls Jenny to ask her to work for Scott, she agrees--and before long, she's the top earner. Scott is an arrogant moron, but he's harmless compared to the thug he calls |friend|--Onus Dupree. When DuPree decides to rob Scott's massage joint, it's the perfect opportunity to beat up Nick and take advantage of Jenny. Can Nick stay true to his promise to protect Jenny? Can he protect himself?

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Do not you sort of pine (secretly, in the marrow of one's gut's merry druthers) for the nice ol'days of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all evaluations were consistently plainspoken, merely practical, unpretentious, and -- especially otherwise -- boring, boring, boring? Do not you sort of hate when people claim'don't you believe this way or feel that way'in an effort to goad you both psychologically and grammatically in to agreeing with them? In what of ABBA: I actually do, I actually do, I do(, I actually do, I do). Well, as the interwebs is just a earth where the past stands shoulder-to-shoulder with today's (and with fetish porn), we can revisit the past in its inviolable presentness any time we wish. Or at the very least until this amazing site ultimately tanks. Contemplate (won't you?) Matt Nieberle's review of Macbeth in their entirety. I have destined it with much rope and dragged it here for your perusal. (Please realize that many a sic are intended in the next reviews.) its really difficult and foolish! why cant we be examining like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at the least that guide is great! There you have it. Refreshingly, not a evaluation published in one of the witch's comments or alluding to Hillary and Bill Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Only a primal shout unleashed into the black wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) a teenager, but I admire his capability to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation with an economy and an understanding that renders his convictions much more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's review of the same play. You may'know'MICHAEL; he is the'Problems Architect'at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in that it implies he designs problems... which might be the case, for several I know.) This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that you do not want to read is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to start with, if it absolutely was designed to be read, then it would have been a novel, not really a play. Along with that the teach had us students see the play aloud (on person for each character for a few pages). None of us had browse the play before. None folks wanted to read it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that appeared to be they weren't paying attention. All of this compounded to create me virtually hate reading classics for something such as 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. Plus it really can fuck up your GPA. There's no wasteful extravagance in this editorial... no fanfare, no fireworks, no linked photos of half-naked, oiled-up, big-bosomed starlets, no invented dialogues between mcdougal and the review-writer. It's simple and memorable. Being required to see plays is wrong, and in the event that you require anyone, under duress, to learn a play then you definitely have sinned and are likely to hell, if you believe in hell. Or even, you're planning to the DMV. I am also fed up with all you could smug spelling snobs. You damnable fascists along with your new-fangled dictionaries and your fancy-schmancy spell check. Sometimes the passionate immediacy of an email overcomes its spelling limitations. Also, in this age whenever we are taught to respect each other's differences, it seems offensively egocentric and mean-spirited you may anticipate others tokowtow to the petty linguistic rules. Creative appearance can free of charge alone however you attempt to be able to shackle it. 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I really like you and your futile gripping on similes that can not method the actual bilious hatred in your heart. You're quarry, as well as We're yours. Figuratively conversing, connected with course. And already here is our examine: Macbeth by Bill Shakespeare is a good fictional do the job inside English language words, plus anybody who disagrees is surely an asshole plus a dumbhead.