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Julio Torres recommended The Proof in Books (curated)

 
The Proof
The Proof
Cesar Aira | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
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"There’s a whole wave of Latin American fiction that I didn’t encounter until later in life. In high school one reads grand narratives like Don Quixote, and Garcia Marquez was the closest to contemporary we got. This felt like watching the movie Ghost World; there’s something very exciting and fun about the quotidian in it."

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    Kung Fu

    Ryan Gattis

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    Jen B's been surviving at the nightmarishly brutal MLK High School just like everybody else: by...

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Dave Eggers recommended Raising Victor Vargas (2003) in Movies (curated)

 
Raising Victor Vargas (2003)
Raising Victor Vargas (2003)
2003 | International, Comedy, Drama
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"We always recommend it to our students. We both teach high school classes a lot, and most of them aren’t aware of this movie, even though it’s the most honest and accurate depiction of that age. I guess they’re early high school or middle school, they’re about fourteen or fifteen. There’s almost a documentary feel to it. At the time, the [kids] weren’t professional actors, though a lot of them have gone on to acting. [Director] Peter Sollett did such a beautiful job. It’s so loose and warm and real and naturalistic and funny and unexpected. So much of it wasn’t rehearsed, and they let a lot of that process unfold while they made the movie. The kids sort of do their own dialogue. But I remember seeing it and thinking, “I’ve never seen it done that well before.” Usually I think teenagers are overwritten, written by much older people. Sort of reinventing."

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Moxie (2021) in Movies

Mar 28, 2021  
Moxie (2021)
Moxie (2021)
2021 | Comedy, Drama, Music
8
8.5 (2 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Superior Netflix high-school comedy-drama. A teenage girl is provoked into starting a feminist club at her high school and resist the double-standards she sees everywhere. (There are jokes, too.)

Sounds like another crashingly didactic piece of post-Weinstein agitprop, but director Amy Poehler is smart enough to mix a little more grit and nuance into the formula. There are still things about the movie which grate slightly - the female principal of the school is almost comically indifferent, there's a rather-too-glib piece of plotting about a rape, and the demonisation of white men is surely problematic - but this is subtle and funny and occasionally sweet and tender, and you do care about the characters and their situations. The film is insightful enough to imply that even if an injustice is brazen and obvious, it doesn't necessarily follow that the solution to it is straightforward. This is an openly feminist film with an axe to grind, but still an accessible piece of entertainment.
  
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CandyZane (19 KP) rated The Catcher in the Rye in Books

Sep 1, 2017  
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger | 2016 | Essays
10
6.8 (85 Ratings)
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It has a lot of nostalgia (0 more)
More schools need to require this reading but do not (0 more)
High school read
I first read this in High school as required reading. It was on the banned book list. No one seems to know that even existed today. Well it did. and this book was on there. But I had a great English teacher who made us read it and my mom whole heartedly approved. Good ol' mom and my teacher. This is a timeless classic, with a lot of childhood nostalgia. Make your teens read it, read it with them, and do a book review at home. This will help your kids understand the English language, give insight into reading comprehension, and is very interesting actually.
  
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Joey Santiago recommended Harvest by Neil Young in Music (curated)

 
Harvest by Neil Young
Harvest by Neil Young
1972 | Country
8.8 (6 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"Neil Young rescued me from my high school years, because it's such a lonely album. At first I was a total loner and I never went out on the weekend, and so that song about the weekend ['Out On The Weekend'], I think it says, "pack it up, buy a pick up", and it was perfect, because I wanted to get out of my little suburban town and go to a city - a better place to be alone, than being with a bunch of people! 'Heart Of Gold', obviously, 'Harvest', and I like his use of the lap steel, it's got this lonely feel to it. The lonely high school years - I understood I'm not the only lonely guy out there!"

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