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John Irving recommended One Hundred Years of Solitude in Books (curated)

"I had a similar experience with the Garcia Marquez novel A Hundred Years of Solitude. In miraculous Macondo, the ordinary and supernatural are entwined; incest and intermarriage give many generations of the Buendia family a classically Greek and predestined future."

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Bill Gates recommended The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity in Books (curated)

"Proof that the world is becoming more peaceful. It’s not just a question for historians, but a profound statement about human nature and the possibility for a better future. This book may have shaped my outlook more than any other."

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Martin Luther King Jr. recommended Complete Poetical Works in Books (curated)

We shall overcome because James Russell Lowell is right: ‘Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne; Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated UNDER GRAND HOTEL 1 in Books

Sep 6, 2019

I actually kinda liked this once it got going, probably about the third/fourth chapter where the relationship was evolving properly.

I'm really interested to see what will happen in future chapters and will start volume 2 in the morning.