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"The Great Gatsby is basically a literary cocktail party teeming with overgrown, overprivileged, and ultimately disenfranchised boys and girls who are uncertain of how to define themselves in a climate in which social and economic expectations and rol...more"
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The basic premise: Holden Caulfield's long-estranged sister speaks her mind from a maggot-infested apartment in the boroughs of New York. Brought to you by McSweeney's, of course.
I liked this quite a bit, Ms. Murphy--although if Freud were to take ...more |
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This book, like all other E.L. Konigsburg books, was actually written by one Margot Tenenbaum.
From the Mixed Up Files is really excellent, subtly magical childhood reading--some of my best summer vacation memories are of reading this book late into...more |
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The only way to make this story even vaguely interesting is to interpret all of its phallic symbols as you read--straight down to the title.
Read Bartleby the Scrivener instead. Or better yet, abandon Melville altogether and read something of actual...more |
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| I picked this book up as a casual read, assuming that it would be a fun, sugar-coated brain vacation peppered with pop music references and quirky quotes from Barry. (Dumb, I know, but sometimes that's what we want.) Of course, what I got instead was...more | |
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