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Zuky the BookBum (15 KP) rated Pride and Prejudice in Books

Mar 15, 2018  
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen, Donald Gray, Mary A. Favret | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
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8.0 (94 Ratings)
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My English teacher couldn't even understand half the language! I'm happy reading old books with and older English language but this was stupid and unintelligible. Not to mention all the characters were the most boring people I've ever had to read about.

Got about 50 pages in and gave up, still got a B in my exam though lol.
  
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Larry Kramer recommended A Handful of Dust in Books (curated)

 
A Handful of Dust
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh, Robert Murray Davis | 2000 | Fiction & Poetry
10.0 (2 Ratings)
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"Waugh, along with P. G. Wodehouse, was one the greatest users of the English language. Both men just loved words and how to use them to their unusually best advantage. Anyone trying to master the English language would do well to study either one. Any of Waugh’s novels is impressive, but this one may be the best."

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George Saunders recommended Silences in Books (curated)

 
Silences
Silences
Tillie Olsen | 1994 | Biography, Philosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences, Reference
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"Language is power, and Olsen does a masterful and compassionate job here of showing who has been denied language in America, and why, and by whom. Had speech really been free all of these years, we would have a different written history: more female, more working-class, more immigrant, more of color. And the result would be truer."

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    Talk the Talk

    Talk the Talk

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    A weekly show about linguistics, the science of language, on RTRFM 92.1 community radio, Perth.