Smashbomb

"Like Orwell, Twain is better-known for his canonical fiction, but he was also a genius of observation, and this early work, which is broadly non-fiction, about his early career as a riverboat pilot, is my favorite. It’s not uproarious, like “Roughing It,” but it dives deep into its milieu. “The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book—a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve.”"

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Dave Eggers

7.7 (3 Ratings) Rate It

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is a part-autobiographical, part-fictional account by Dave...

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Speculative Realism and Science Fiction

Brian Willems

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One of the reasons that speculative materialism challenges anthropomorphism is that a human-centred...

Chris Hooker (419 KP) rated Out of War: True Stories from the Frontlines of the Children's Movement for Peace in Colombia in Books

Jan 12, 2018

[Out of War] by [Sara Cameron] is the story of the Children's Movement for Peace in Columbia. It is a non fiction book written for lower readers. The high interest of the topic, especially to many ELL students, will be a help but the way the stories are told is dull and could be written better.

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Anna Steele (111 KP) rated Slaughterhouse-Five in Books

May 20, 2018

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut | 1969 | Science Fiction/Fantasy

8.0

(9 Ratings)

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Non-Realistic Classic

The first time I read this book, I took everything at face value. I thought anything I would be reading for an English class would be a realistic piece of literature. Boy, was I wrong. This science fiction WWII book launched my love for Kurt Vonnegut’s body of work, and I am so glad for it.

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Erika (17789 KP) rated The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War in Books

Feb 23, 2019

This is yet another non-fiction spy story by Ben Macintyre that reads like a novel. This book features the double-agent that began working for the KGB, and became an agent for the UK for ideological reasons.
My favorite section was the escape section, it was completely riveting and entertaining. I can't wait for Macintyre's next book.