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On Ne Nait Pas Femme: On le Devient: The Life of a Sentence

Bonnie Mann and Martina Ferrari

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This collection of essays takes up the most famous feminist sentence ever written, Simone de...

Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship

Christopher Dunn and Idelber Avelar

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Covering more than one hundred years of history, this multidisciplinary collection of essays...

Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated My Dad Wrote A Porno in Podcasts

Jan 5, 2018 (Updated Jan 5, 2018)

Hilariously bad

This is a bit like Sex and the City, in terms of being so terrible, it's a guilty pleasure. And the fact that it has had 90 million downloads constitutes it as a cultural phenomenon.

The podcast is self-explanatory, in which the host Jamie Morton discovers that his retired father has begun dabbling in writing erotica. Introducing Belinda Blinked, her profuse sweatiness, and those 'pomegranates'. As a result, he decides to bring his friends into the action, each week discussing a chapter and literally peeing their pants over how hilariously bad it is. Beware, listening to this in public can cause people to give you strange looks as you attempt to stifle a laugh.

It has received such acclaim that we're onto book three now. It's obviously for adults only, but it's cheeky and pretty ridiculous.

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Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated Things Fall Apart in Books

Sep 10, 2017

How cultures are misconstrued and misunderstood

This book is intriguing for the fact that there is massive emphasis on pre-colonial times rather than post-colonisation in Nigeria. In this way you're able to gauge how much of a culture clash and cultural misinterpretation there is on the part of the white settlers. It is also written by someone who is of Nigerian descent which makes it all the more interesting as many of the books were written from a western perspective during this time.

It is a book about change and tradition in which protagonist Okonkwo befalls many trials and tribulations in order to appease both his heritage and live side by side with the new ideals of Christianity. Alone, he was unable to withstand the forces of transformation. An important book for people to understand pre-missionary Nigeria.

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Awix (3310 KP) rated The Stepford Wives (1975) in Movies

Mar 30, 2018

The Stepford Wives (1975)

1975 | Drama, Thriller

6.9

(15 Ratings)

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Bryan Forbes' SF-horror-satire has left a cultural impression out of all proportion to its original box-office success. Nice modern couple leave grimy New York for idyllic small town of Stepford, where everyone seems happy and the women are thoroughly domesticated. What on Earth can the secret of the place be...?

Subtle storytelling and fine performances do a good job of masking the fact that the premise of the story is basically a paranoid fever-dream; oddly, some people interpreted the film as being anti-feminist and actually misogynistic, when it is actually about male objectification of women and fears of the same (maybe also has stuff to say about consumerism too). Perhaps a bit overlong, but the slow aggregation of details adds a lot to a convincingly unsettling atmosphere. An entertaining horror fable.

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Cori June (3033 KP) rated Tiger's Curse (The Tiger Saga, #1) in Books

Dec 3, 2018

Tiger's Curse (The Tiger Saga, #1)

Colleen Houck | 2011 | Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)

8.6

(8 Ratings)

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3.5 stars. I have read this book multiple times although it has been a while. I still enjoy the characters although the love aspect is a little trite to me. Kelsey is a great character full of emotion if a little naive and stubborn. Yes, there are somethings that happen too easily for her and she is a bit more go with the flow than one would really expect however it doesnt distract from the whole of the story. As a world building book i found it quite enjoyable and a pleasant read. Even if romance isn't your thing (it's not mine) the cross-cultural mythology is fantastic, literary licencing or not. Also some of the side characters are a little more than stereotypes which is a reason for the half star. The imagery is wonderful.