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Erika (17789 KP) rated The Minds of Billy Milligan in Books

Sep 26, 2019  
The Minds of Billy Milligan
The Minds of Billy Milligan
Daniel Keyes | 1981 | Crime
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Admittedly, I wanted to read this book after watching Split, and hearing that Billy Milligan inspired the character.
It seems like there are two camps in the psychology field, ones that believe in Multiple Personalities (now DID), and ones that do not. While at some points I thought to myself, surely, this couldn't be true. But, the brain is weird, and I believe it. I was also hesitant to believe a lot of the details because a)conversations were completely recreated and b) the author was the dude that wrote Flowers for Algernon.
This begins as a true crime novel, then goes into a narrative of Billy Milligan's various lives, then what happened after he told the author his story. I preferred the true crime section to all else, but it was all intensely interesting.
Now, the Split connection; there were some personalities straight up lifted from Milligan's case, and the fact there were 24. Split took a lot from this book.
Overall, an interesting, and at times, unsettling, read.
  
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Tilda Swinton recommended The Many Days: Selected Poems Of Norman MacCaig in Books (curated)

 
The Many Days: Selected Poems Of Norman MacCaig
The Many Days: Selected Poems Of Norman MacCaig
Norman MacCaig | 2010 | Fiction & Poetry
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"Scotland’s preeminent poet of both the mountain and the capital’s pavement. Doubleness is a Scottish art: Passion and Calvinism; the west and the east; the highlands and the lowlands. MacCaig embraces this split with true affection and verve. (See also: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.)"

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Jarvis Cocker recommended Marianne Faithfull by Marianne Faithfull in Music (curated)

 
Marianne Faithfull by Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull by Marianne Faithfull
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"I included this one because sometimes you can read things into records that aren't necessarily there. In the mid-80s I had my first proper girlfriend, we had an on/off thing for ages and then we finally split up. On the Thursday before, she gave me this Marianne Faithfull LP, so in the aftermath of the split I listened to it and heard lots of like 'ooo she's sending me a message through the songs'. I got to know the record quite well, I wallowed in the self-pity. I happened to meet her in Sheffield about 20 years later, was speaking to her and I mentioned to her about that record and she just said 'I knew we were going to split up and it was on offer at WH Smiths, it was only three quid so I just thought I'd get you that'. She'd never listened to it and wasn't making any points or comments to me at all. It shows how you as a listener bring a lot to any record. I didn't tell Marianne Faithfull the story when I worked with her... I should do shouldn't I?"

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Obsessed book reviews (49 KP) rated Wicked White (Wicked White, #1) in Books

May 7, 2019  
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Wicked White (Wicked White, #1)
Michelle A. Valentine | 2015
10
7.0 (2 Ratings)
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this book is a sweet rock star romance. the characters are well written. the book seems to be split into two halves, one is romantic and the other is drama filled. overall I loved this book, everything worked really well, very well written.
highly recommended
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Stella Mozgawa recommended The Double Life of Veronique (1991) in Movies (curated)

 
The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
1991 | Drama, Fantasy, Music
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"Hard to choose a favorite Kieslowski. This one is so wonderfully evocative and rich. We’ve all felt that quantum split, even for a second, and this is a film that illustrates that feeling perfectly. Zbigniew Preisner scored most, if not all, of Kieslowski’s features, and their creative sympathy is really evident in The Double Life."

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