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The Unbearable Lightness of Amazon Sales Rank
How does a book climb to the top of Amazon charts? Many seek the secrets of the big river algorithm: authors, artists, entrepreneurs, scammers, publishers, used booksellers, scholars of literature, and me, nucky of nickywebsite.com. Discussing proprietary algorithms is cyber-divination, trying to figure out the future from hints, spreadsheets, the stars, shadows on a cave’s…
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25 New Books in 2025
I’m excited about these twenty-five new books as we enter the second quarter of the digital century. Fiction My fiction picks include horror, crime, and works in translation. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix | January 14th Just one more week until we can read Hendrix’s take on witches and a magical school! Strange…
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Favorite 2024 Old Books
I read many old books about power, crime, politics, murder, gossip and more. Noir Hardboiled stories where political power spills out like blood. You Were Never Really Here by Jonathan Ames A disgruntled troop hunts the sicko politicians and their creepy little blackmail brothels. It came out in 2013, four whole years before Pizzagate. Ninety…
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Favorite 2024 New Books
Happy New Year! I overloaded my brain with books in 2024, including those elusive “new” books full of fresh information and artistic experimentation! I kept thinking about these sixteen books this year amongst the horror, psy-ops and weird cyberwars of 2024. Here’s my favorites across the categories of “fake” and “real.” Fiction James by Percival…
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Thirteen Favorite 2024 Movies
I love the movies! Here are thirteen of my favorites this year. Great comedies, crime, suspense, animation, and blockbusters. Watch them all! 13. Dune: Part 2 Finally, good Dune movies! Well-paced, great effects, and climactic finale to the first one. Go ahead, give us more Dune! Give us the worm! 12. I Saw the TV…
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Pyramid Schemes and the American Dream
How Multi-Level Marketing (MLMs) schemes work and how to avoid them.
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Life, Death, and Productivity: How to Embrace Life’s Limits
A book that reshaped how I see the world and helped me find comfort in the futility of time management
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Beware, Hell Hounds! Use This Forbidden Knowledge to Survive!
This week’s obsession is hell hounds and devil dogs. What doth their omen foretell? Keep reading…if you dare!
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Surviving is Criminal: The Black Panther Party and Revolution
In honor of Black History Month, I discuss an art book about The Black Panther People’s Party, some novels about Black revolutionaries in the 1960s and 70s, and the film American Fiction.
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Weird Love, Heartbreak, and Reading on Valentine’s Day
On Love’s Holiday, I consider strange love in a memoir, a romance novel, and a comic book about the true Harlequin.