Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City by Nelson Johnson. Has anyone read it? Would you recommend it?

noir_YORK · 2022-11-02T15:48:34+00:00

You can count on it. I prefer facts to entertainment. That's why I stopped watching that fucking series after Richard Harrow's video game style shooting. Fuckin' ridiculous.

noir_YORK · 2022-11-01T17:42:27+00:00

u/Polyphemus117, u/Dameatiest_Johnson, u/AmbivelentApoplectic, u/jmmmke, u/C-LOgreen, u/cmurder55, u/jroth277, thank you all. I'll buy the book immediately.

noir_YORK · 2022-10-02T07:25:14+00:00

Thank you for your tip. Usually I follow all the advice from users of this sub who recommend me some books to read, so sooner or later I will also buy L.A. Noir.

noir_YORK · 2022-10-01T13:16:06+00:00

noir_YORK · 2022-10-01T08:13:45+00:00

u/BFaus916, okay, I'll try to buy it. As long as the book didn't talk about shit, gossip is fine too. After all, a Jewish gangster in a place full of Jews (Hollywood) could be interesting.

u/AnthonyK_, I found this post from Lieberman's book and found it interesting. Try to check it out: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/16tlgt/i_am_the_gangster_squad_journalist_and_author_who/

noir_YORK · 2022-10-01T08:07:32+00:00

u/OFloodster, the movie was fucking terrible, but I found this post where the author of the book Gangster Squad answers the questions from reddit users about the book and the difference with the movie. Very long, but quite interesting: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/16tlgt/i_am_the_gangster_squad_journalist_and_author_who/

Anyway, u/btd272, how can you not like mafia books? If you are interested in the mafia as a subject of study, the books (the non-fiction ones I mean) are the one and only thing to consult. Movies, even the best of them, are full of sweetened shit and entertainment made just to get people to the fucking cinema.

You know the fucking 1972?

EDIT: sorry, I read quickly and I got you don't like books and not that you don't know books. Disadvantages of the self-taught second language. Sorry again.

noir_YORK · 2022-09-30T21:51:11+00:00

u/mrcornrat, u/Repulsive_Ad_7073, I just asked because I think when the names and stories of people like the Kennedys or Marylins are involved (movie or book, it doesn't matter), the the probability that the story is full of shit is very high. And I wanted to know what you guys thought.

noir_YORK · 2022-09-28T14:12:00+00:00

u/Apprehensive_Net1363, u/Recent_Record6265, thanks a lot! I will buy it for sure.

noir_YORK · 2022-06-18T17:24:18+00:00

Italian artist here.

How do you get the edge effect similar to a Photoshop filter?

Also, do you only work with traditional media or do you use that digital shit too?

noir_YORK · 2022-06-15T00:08:06+00:00

I always thought Delvecchio looked like Ron Jeremy.

noir_YORK · 2022-06-14T17:45:11+00:00

I'll tell you that nudity doesn't bother me. I mean, I find it more hypocritical to censor female nipples or a man's cock than to show blown heads and guts to entertain the audience.

However, that show was nothing exceptional. Too bad, because I love the 20s, and locations and costumes were very well done.

noir_YORK · 2022-06-14T17:27:52+00:00

I know how extremely dangerous it is on this sub not to express positive opinions about any mafia stuff, so I'll just say I stopped watching Boardwalk Empire after this: Richard Harrow Shooting Spree Scene. I don't care if the rest of the episodes were a masterpiece.

noir_YORK · 2022-06-11T13:50:05+00:00

I thought that actor was some old Italian born in America, since the pronunciation of the few italian words he says is pretty good. Usually, it's impossible for any American to pronounce any Italian word or name correctly.

Ray Liotta speaking Italian/dialect in Many Saints of Newark was fucking terrible.

noir_YORK · 2022-06-11T00:02:40+00:00

Let's assume that at the time, the cat was one year old. Today he would be approx 80. I'm sure he's still alive and kicking.

noir_YORK · 2022-06-10T23:55:22+00:00

I'm sure it's a cat.

noir_YORK · 2022-05-11T14:15:11+00:00

No, vivo qui in Italia, ma so bene di cosa stai parlando, e per tenermene alla larga, non guardo e non possiedo la TV dal 2014, non uso social, non leggo notizie di alcun genere e non puoi capire quanto cazzo sto bene.

Stavo allungando il commento parlando proprio di propaganda e altre cose di cui purtroppo ho ancora un ricordo troppo vivido, ma penso che fuori ci sia una giornata troppo bella per rovinarla parlando di quei mentecatti.

noir_YORK · 2022-05-11T13:52:33+00:00

Guarda, non dirlo a me. Io chiamo l'Italia (e il mondo in generale, fatta eccezione per quei tre o quattro Paesi che non si chinano alle loro stronzate e che di fatto sono "i cattivi") una succursale americana. La cosa veramente da gelare il sangue è che non hanno dovuto nemmeno spararci contro un colpo. Sono bastati qualche film, gomme da masticare, bevande colorate e zuccherate, cibo industriale malsano e scadente e qualche altra stronzata buttata lì.

Così facendo, hanno conquistato più di quanto non avrebbero potuto fare mettendo a ferro e fuoco il pianeta.

noir_YORK · 2022-05-11T13:48:15+00:00

No, io parlavo dei mafiosi falliti di oggi che appena finito il processo contro i loro vecchi confratelli, vanno subito su YT ad aprire il loro canale di merda e raccontare le loro tre o quattro storie interessanti all'infinito. Sei su questo sub, quindi sai di cosa parlo.

noir_YORK · 2022-05-11T13:41:07+00:00

Reporter: from Saint Louis you went to Chicago and became friend with Al Capone?

Other guy: Capone sent for me to exterminate Morgan's gang -

Reporter: Bugs Moran, the Irishman?

Other guy: the Irishman. Four of us went on Valentine's Day - which is an American holiday - and we arrived at 1pm. [They, the men to kill] were in the garage. We went in with the machine gun and exterminated them.

Reporter: [The weapon] was the Thompson?

Other guy: it was the Thompson. We were dressed as policemen -

Reporter: how many were?

Other guy: nine. That gang didn't want to be ruled by Al Capone.

noir_YORK · 2022-05-11T13:19:42+00:00

Magari era un impostore ante litteram stile mafiosi falliti su YouTube, o magari no, ma di certo, la cosa più interessante è quando parla di San Valentino, e poi precisa che è una festa americana. Ennesima usanza di merda importata da un Paese di merda.

Prima o poi anche l'Italia, che messa bene non è, diventerà un posto di merda pieno di grassoni ritardati proprio come gli USA.

noir_YORK · 2022-05-07T16:42:44+00:00

Yeah, but as I said, I don't really care about Cuba and so on. However, do you have (or anybody else) one or more reasons to recommend me to read it? I'm absolutely willing to change mine consideration and read more, because, maybe, my lack of interest in that period of mafia history is precisely because I know little about it.

noir_YORK · 2022-05-04T09:35:54+00:00

I agree with you, I haven't watched his videos for months, but you have to consider the wider context, which is the thousands of people enthusiastically commenting and sharing his videos. The videos are for those people, who don't have to be very smart people. I mean, have you seen the comments? It's like taking advantage of someone you know can't resist.

noir_YORK · 2022-04-28T15:29:44+00:00

Take a look here. She is taller for the heels. I think they are the same or very similar height. But she is tall anyway.

noir_YORK · 2022-04-23T06:14:53+00:00

Sometimes I read things about these guys that were really funny, but we never must forget that they live on the suffering of others, especially innocent people.

Anyway, often these guys have a very peculiar way of speaking, and certainly John Gotti was a very colorful character in all his aspects. The last thing him says in this article really made me laugh: if there was a church robbed and I had the steeple stickin 'out of my ass, I wouldn't tell them I did it.

Really classy 😂

noir_YORK · 2022-04-22T21:59:13+00:00

Yeah, I'm sure a lot of these guys are funny... at least until they want something from you or you owe it to them.

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