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Christiane Amanpour recommended Black Beauty in Books (curated)

 
Black Beauty
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry
7.8 (22 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"This was the first real classic I remember reading. It occupied my heart from page one. It’s still with me. The whole panorama of life (yes our human experience too!) can be told through the experience of this magnificent noble beast. Riding was my first sport, horses were my first love. Black Beauty and Ginger were then my favorite fictional characters."

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A Court of Thorns and Roses
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas | 2015 | Young Adult (YA)
10
8.7 (107 Ratings)
Book Rating
Feyre is no shrinking violet (3 more)
Tamlin
Good plot progression
Fast pacing
Over far too soon! (0 more)
Beauty & The Beast - But Not As You Know It
Honestly, the cover put me off reading this book for SO long that the third book was almost out by the time I picked it up. And for that, I'm grateful, because I was able to go straight from this into the second!
  
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
1946 | Fantasy, Romance
6.4 (5 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"Beauty and the Beast may be tenuous and delicate where Eyes Without a Face is overripe and pulpish, but these films are gorgeous, dark poems about fragility and horror. Both fables depend on sublime, almost ethereal, imagery to convey a sense of doom and loss: mad, fragile love clinging for dear life in a maelstrom of darkness. The clash of haunting and enchanting imagery has seldom been more powerful. Eyes Without a Face boasts an extraordinary soundtrack too!"

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Eyes Without a Face (1960)
Eyes Without a Face (1960)
1960 | Horror

"Beauty and the Beast may be tenuous and delicate where Eyes Without a Face is overripe and pulpish, but these films are gorgeous, dark poems about fragility and horror. Both fables depend on sublime, almost ethereal, imagery to convey a sense of doom and loss: mad, fragile love clinging for dear life in a maelstrom of darkness. The clash of haunting and enchanting imagery has seldom been more powerful. Eyes Without a Face boasts an extraordinary soundtrack too!"

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