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bobbygw’s 2025 Year in Books
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Darker, Still - A Tale of the Unexpected
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Test Tube Baby: and More Cartoons from the Land of Quirky
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Breakfast and a Bath for Baby: A Tale of the Dark Macabre
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Trump Chicken: A Tale of the Grotesque
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Jane Austen: A Very Short Introduction by Tom Keymer — Outstanding
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The OUP’s Very Short Introduction series is excellent, with hundreds of clever, brief and pellucid studies on a stellar range of subjects and persons. This is a more than worthy addition to the collection, and a truly outstanding literary appreciation of Jane Austen’s oeuvre, her themes, principal characters, virtuoso style, techn
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The 78 Most Popular Horror Novels of the Past Five Years
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The Halloween horror movie season is upon us, and the theaters are filled with options. But serious book people can tell you: For a really terrifying experience, nothing beats a good horror novel.
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“In a sense, we are all crashing to our death from the top story of our birth ... and wondering with an immortal Alice at the patterns of the passing wall. This capacity to wonder at trifles - no matter the imminent peril - these asides of the spirit ... are the highest form of consciousness.”
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“The mass media serve as a system for communicating messages and symbols to the general populace. It is their function to amuse, entertain, and inform, and to inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behavior that will integrate them into the institutional structures of the larger society. In a world of concentrated wealth and major conflicts of class interest, to fulfil this role requires systematic propaganda.”
― Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
― Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.”
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“All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.”
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“As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media.”
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