Looking For Mr. Goodbar

So, even in my weakened state the search for one good Esquire continues. After all, the opt out date is roughly three months away, and this awful settlement could be approved in a little over four months.

Having grown up in the 1970's I vaguely remember "Mr. Goodbar". I don't think I ever saw the movie, but I remember the basis of the story -- A teacher by day trolls bars at night and comes to a nasty end. The movie starring Diane Keaton dealt the first blow to singles bars, followed by AIDS in the early 1980's, which swiftly shut down the Sexual Revolution.

Of course, it is said that every generation thinks it invented sex, and the Sex of 1970's took on some overt and dark tones, including "Deep Throat", a burgeoning porn industry, and the cautionary tale for young, sexually active women -- "Looking for Mr. Goodbar."

I googled "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" and after a very incomplete Wikipedia entry on the novel, the Imdb.com page and couple of Youtube snippets, the next link was Google Books.

I began to read. I should warn you, (and so should Google) that this novel contains extremely explicit material. I'm by no means a prude, but I do appreciate a little heads up (no double entendre intended) when confronted with raw literature.

http://books.google.com/books?id=wDOctP9Gu5YC&dq=looking+for+mr.+goodbar&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=-gcjSszEIYzCMeKmmLQJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6

Okay, the weird thing is the first time I began to read this book on Google Books it stopped me at page 7, and told me I had reached my preview limit. It then had a nice little disclaimer about how Google respects copyrights, blah, blah, blah. I bypassed that easily enough and had access to the whole book, but it seemed to skip a page here and there.

Now, upon returning to the site, I get no stop or disclaimer (I really wanted to post it here for everyone to read) and can cruise through darn near the whole novel.

Earlier, I only read the dirty parts at the beginning and end of the book, like the average reader would, and decided I really didn't want to read the victim's life story and psychological profile which take up over 350 pages.

My point is, there is no way I would entertain the notion of buying this cow, when I can get the milk for free.

I will now return you to your normally scheduled programming of finding a lawyer to represent my copyright infringement and anti-trust claims against Google.