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Prompt 25: A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
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2.5-ish stars
Jan 05, 2021
Joseph
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it was amazing
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Take one part Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, add a touch of Pat Barker's The Ghost Road and a whole lot of Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa centered on several fictional New Guinea tribes and one has a glimpse of this fascinating book detailing the early years of anthropological studies. King covers so many bases in this book's modest 257 pages that it takes a two page acknowledgments and five page, 23-question study guide and bibliography in the end to revisit one's self and valu
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This was a book for my book club. I would have never picked a book about anothropologists but I really enjoyed this. There is a part where they discuss if you love a person like bread or wine that I thought was insightful. Love seemed to be the bottom line of all of it and that is always a good message.
Jun 03, 2014
Kris Springer
marked it as to-read
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