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The Emptiness Inside II (with Wood Floors) by The Wood Floors

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Futility Of An Inside Job / Delerious John by Maurice Jarre / Original Soundtrack

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Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated The Sellout in Books

Aug 15, 2017

The Sellout

Paul Beatty | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry

9.0

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The most insane, ridiculous and hilarious book you'll read

Wow. Just wow. Reading this book will make you feel quite queer at the same time laugh your head off. It's not every day an African American author uses satire to recommend bringing back segregation and slavery. It is absolutely hilarious and a little bit borderline disturbing. Dickens is a ghetto in disrepair, and the narrator's idea of renovating the town and 'putting it on the map' is to change it sociologically. With insane consequences. Brilliant book, well deserved of the Man Booker Prize 2016.

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Carrie Brownstein recommended The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary in Books (curated)

"One of my favorite history books. It’s a story about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary and of an epistolary and academic friendship between two men, one of whom (unbeknownst to the other) was an inmate at an insane asylum."

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Kristen Chenoweth recommended Steel Magnolias (1989) in Movies (curated)

Steel Magnolias (1989)

1989 | Comedy, Drama

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"Okay, Steel Magnolias. I have six aunts, and they’re all like my mom, and they’re all insane, but in a good way. That movie makes me think of them. And I’m also Southern, so it’s like, “Mmm, I get it.”"

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