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| Just read Light in August by William Faulkner. A Tremendous read, and a bit easier to follow than some of his other works; even with its non-linear story telling, it all pieces together with each turn of the page. It's a philosophical roller coaster ...more | |
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| Just read Aesop's Fables. A collection of fables by a Greek slave story teller from the 6th Century BC - about animals, man & nature, and the moral choices made among them, pros & cons. Among some of the famous known ones are The Boy Who Cried Wolf, ...more | |
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| Just read The Bhagavad Gita - a very interesting read - one of three classics of Indian Spirituality (other two: The Dhammapada and The Upanishads). The Gita is about the warrior Prince Arjuna and his charioteer, Sri Krishna, who is his spiritual gui...more | |
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| Just read Fun Home - A Family Tragic Comic by Alison Bechdel. It's a great autobiography of the coming of age, sexuality, reflection of her relationship with her late father and the awkward distance between her parents - all through means of a graphi...more | |
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| Just read Black Girl Lost by Donald Goines - AKA Def Hood Ghetto Realism - this mofo can write, for real. About a young girl raised on the streets; shoplifter to quazi mastermind of her first-love, tough-as-nails, high school pusher. He gets some tim...more | |
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| Just read another Donald Goines' book - Dopefiend. Just as legit as Black Girl Lost.. Kind of reminds me of The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren (Winner of the first National Book Award in 1950). Both books are about the irreversible conseque...more | |
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| Just read Black Hole by Charles Burns - His semi autobiographical magnum opus, set in the Seattle area.. About life in the 70's steeped in the drug culture, runaways, and the plaque passed through sexually active teenagers. I got a flashback when the...more | |
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| Just read The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel - A phenomenal read about prehistoric civilizations (Neanderthals), their culture, religion, migration and encounter with a five-year old Cro-Magnon (modern human) that the Clan of the Cave Bear fin...more | |
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| Just read A Happy Death by Albert Camus, which is a great preamble to his famous book The Stranger - classic French literature. A Happy Death really builds upon existentialism, and the philosophy of the will to happiness, which the protagonist strugg...more | |
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