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Masks: Blackness, Race, and the Imagination (Hardcover) by Adam Lively |
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recommended for: People who hate themselves
read in July, 2008 
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"Really, I want to write some massive review about this book or something, but I just can't; this book was so underwhelming. The book is separated into two parts. By the time I got to part two, I wanted it to end because it had been brutal. I had lear...more
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A Party for the Girls: Six Stories (Paperback) by H.E. Bates |
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recommended for: Anyone
read in July, 2008
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"These were some of the best short stories that I've ever read. Ever. Not since reading Flannery O'Connor have I seen an author so thoroughly control the mind of the reader through simple, direct, clear prose. More importantly, this whole book shows o...more
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The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (African Writers) by Ayi Kwei Armah |
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read in May, 2007
A.C. said:
"I picked this book up on a fluke in Jamaica after I finished reading a John Feinstein book. I'm glad that I did because this book is incredible. It's about the breaking of one man's soul in post-Nkrumah Ghana. It's simple, it's sparse, it's striking....more
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Sister Carrie: The Unexpurgated Edition (Penguin Classics) by Theodore Dreiser |
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recommended for: anyone who likes henry james or turn of the century american lit.
read in July, 2008
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"Really, I don't have a lot to say about this book. I know that is disappointing and all for everyone involved, but the book is pretty self-explanatory. Girl comes to big city, finds out it isn't what it's cracked up to be. But, Dreiser really takes t...more
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The Metamorphosis, In The Penal Colony, and Other Stories (Paperback) by Franz Kafka |
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Paperback) by Anonymous, Seamus Heaney |
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