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Dana (24 KP) rated Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works in Books

Mar 23, 2018  
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Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works
Aphra Behn | 1992
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6.0 (1 Ratings)
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I had to read this for one of my classes and I have got to say, I didn't really enjoy it that much. It got too hectic at times and the language kept tripping me up (which is weird because I am fine with Shakespeare which was written around the same time). Oh well.
  
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KatieLouCreate (162 KP) created a poll

May 29, 2018 (Updated May 29, 2018)  
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 Anonymous
What book shall I read next?

His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman

1 votes

Evelina by Frances Burney (re-read)

0 votes

Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan

4 votes

The Surface Breaks by Louise O'Neill

0 votes

Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King

7 votes

Othello by William Shakespeare (re-read)

4 votes

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter (re-read)

0 votes

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Irvine Welsh recommended Pimp: The Story of My Life in Books (curated)

 
Pimp: The Story of My Life
Pimp: The Story of My Life
Iceberg Slim, Irvine Welsh | 2009 | Biography
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"This biography, written with a novelist’s stylization, was an incendiary moment in western culture. Ironically, it became the weapon that would win the cultural wars for dispossessed black, urban America. It’s impossible to think of what street culture of white Hollywood would look like without it. Slim is the most influential writer in English since Shakespeare."

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Carrie Preston recommended The Oxford English Dictionary in Books (curated)

 
The Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford University Press | 2010 | Reference
7.0 (1 Ratings)
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"If I’m going to be on a desert island with “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare,” believe me I’m going to need this book, too. The forest of his words is sometimes pretty thick, and having a dictionary helps illuminate your way. I use the dictionary all the time when I’m reading or working on scripts."

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Betty Fussell recommended Metamorphoses in Books (curated)

 
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
Ovid | 2004 | Fiction & Poetry
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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"“Of shapes transformed to bodies strange” — Ovid’s theme is Shakespeare in a nutshell. As a theater fanatic, I discovered Ovid in my 40s when I wrote my PhD thesis on Renaissance Tragicomedy. For me, the root of drama and language is the invisible made visible in the shape-changing of sex, love, life and death. Not to mention food."

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