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| Teetering on 3.5 and 4 stars. What I most enjoyed was the circuitousness of this text. I'm a fan of anthologies and this serves as one with a connective thread that is exploring humanity and classes and racism/prejudice. How it moved forward than bac...more | |
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| Chilling, bleak, realistic. It's amazing how much she captures, how vivid the colors are in representing this new society and how easily it came to pass. Less is more in this and the narrator of Offred provides all the details you need, leaving you ...more | |
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Another 1.5 star rating for me. Being a native New Yorker this sounded like a good read and my book club was excited about choosing it as well. Though I have to say it was pretty lackluster. After reading the bulk of it I ended up skimming through th...more |
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is on page 122 of 262 of Brooklyn: If it weren't for the fact that this was for book club I may have given up on this. The main character is just too bland for me.
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“She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of flaccid tattoos droop like moth-eaten upholstery over poorly stuffed biceps and saggy asses?”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling
― Rudyard Kipling
“I only surround myself with people I find intellectually stimulating.
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― Vada Sultenfuss
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― Vada Sultenfuss
“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”
― Ayn Rand
― Ayn Rand
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