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Paulo Coelho recommended Tropic of Cancer in Books (curated)

Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry

5.0

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"Miller is the writer who gave me the initial stimulus to write. When I read Miller, I said to myself, ‘Okay, this is literature.’ He was a rebellious writer whose books were censored for years, and that in itself was meaningful for me."

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Dana (24 KP) rated Pearl in Books

Mar 23, 2018

Pearl

Marie Boroff | 1977

6.0

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This is one Medieval story that I wasn't a big fan of. The wording was confusing along with the story line itself. It was one of the more religious texts that I have had to read for my Medieval Literature class, and since I'm not the biggest fan of that kind of story, it obviously wasn't my favorite. This is possibly the same poet as the "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" poet, but I enjoyed that one more.

I recommend this to people who like Medieval Literature that has heavy ties to Christianity and convoluted plots.

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The Complete Guide to Fencing

Berndt Barth, Emil Beck and Claus Janka

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Meyer & Meyer Premium the next level of instructional sports literature with high-quality,...

Joan Didion recommended The Executioner's Song in Books (curated)

The Executioner's Song

Norman Mailer | 1989 | Biography, Crime

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"I think no one but Mailer could have dared this book. The authentic Western voice, the voice heard in “The Executioner’s Song,” is one heard often in life but only rarely in literature, the reason being that to truly know the West is to lack all will to write it down. The very subject of “The Executioner’s Song” is that vast emptiness at the center of the Western experience, a nihilism antithetical not only to literature but to most other forms of human endeavor, a dread so close to zero that human voices fadeout, trail off, like skywriting."

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Love and Death in the American Novel

Leslie Fiedler

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A retrospective article on Leslie Fiedler in the New York Times Book Review in 1965 referred to Love...

A-Z Great Modern Writers

Caroline Taggart and Andy Tuohy

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Artist and graphic designer Andy Tuohy turns his hand to the world of modern literature in this new...

Of Women Borne: A Literary Ethics of Suffering

Cynthia R. Wallace

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The literature of Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison, Ana Castillo, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie teaches a...

The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question

Nick Hubble

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This book reformulates our understanding of the relationship between proletarian literature and...

Power, Culture and Situated Research Methodology: Autobiography, Field, Text

Cecilie Basberg Neumann and Iver B. Neumann

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This book aims at demonstrating that all social science research is situated and argues that doing...

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Oct 4, 2017

Dystopian books explore the bleak worlds that await if society gives in to extremes.

We find these reads throughout literature: The Handmaid’s Tale, 1984, and more recently, The Hunger Games, Divergent, and The Maze Runner. Here are the latest front runners in the genre: