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Like Bowling Alone or Caro’s the Power Brokers, certain books are often referred to as cultural touchstones or prophetic Annunciations….this book is one of those. A book about the TV of the 80s with a foreword from the author’s son about the go-go 2,0 ...more |
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(3.5)good enough to make me interested in swamplandia. A talented writer from the get-go Just one thing: the story on the dead presidents coming back as horses seems to imply that the selected presidents werent very good. Ike was an excellent president ...more |
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Like Bowling Alone or Caro’s the Power Brokers, certain books are often referred to as cultural touchstones or prophetic Annunciations….this book is one of those. A book about the TV of the 80s with a foreword from the author’s son about the go-go 2,0 ...more |
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(3.5)good enough to make me interested in swamplandia. A talented writer from the get-go Just one thing: the story on the dead presidents coming back as horses seems to imply that the selected presidents werent very good. Ike was an excellent president ...more |
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(3.5)So I forgot how damn down Hemingway is… The story of the hard luck fisherman seems oddly wedded to the minor stories of the cuckolding couples… At this point so much has been written about Hemingway it’s hard not to separate some of the failings a ...more |
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(2.7) Hemingway trying to do Truman capotes in cold blood Africa style… Hemingway style is always alluring Hemingway’s philosophy I’d argue with but Papa’s take are always genuine… Here, I just find the subject distasteful. I can’t get over the killing o ...more |
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A southern Bildungsroman (3.9) Reading Faulkner makes me yearn for a time when novels were ambitious, when they didn’t assume their readers couldn’t hold two thoughts in their head at once. Dense, organic, a swirl of lore and free association that take ...more |
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There’s nothing wrong with this book. kingsolver writes well and the story is lucid, if very downbeat. My problem is the genre. The Pulitzer Prize winning piece of American literature…the important novel. My question is why read this strong account of ...more |
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“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...”
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Obviously they're going to be a lot less limited in publication than fiction, and I hardly have to explain why. I just don't quite understand why no decent results come back when I Google "top nonfiction picks published in 2025"... before 2024, I'd always find at least a few I was interested in each month, but ever since then, not so much. Is it just me? If it is, throw some suggestions my way? I'd greatly appreciate it if you know of any.