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Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

William Harvey

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Sometimes known as the Arabian Nights, Tales from the Thousand and One Nights includes some of the...

Widowland

C J Carey

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To control the past, they edited history. To control the future, they edited literature. London,...

Alternative historical fiction

Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated The White Album in Books

Sep 1, 2017

The White Album

Joan Didion | 1979 | Essays

6.0

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Disappointing, writing from an elitist bubble

This was rather disappointing. While Joan Didion is obviously a good writer, she is too much of a cynic and writes from the perspective of upper class privilege. She has more enthusiasm for high end elitist social circles than the civil rights movements taking place in 1960s, even criticising Nobel Prize winner of Literature, Doris Lessing. She prefers the company of Charles Manson associates than she does of leading feminists and Black Panther leaders. It sounded like a long winded rant about her own troubles than the troubles of the time.

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Dominique Marie (7 KP) rated Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in Books

Nov 28, 2018 (Updated Nov 28, 2018)

Back to the Classics Reading Challenge 2017
Category: Published Before 1800

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a medieval alliterative romance poem that is surprisingly deep for it's time. I really enjoyed it. The most striking thing about it to me was Gawain's character. He is a dynamic character which is not typical during that era of Literature. The imagery is fantastic. I chose the translation by Simon Armitage in audio book format. I really wanted to hear the poem spoken aloud, so this version was a great choice for me, and the introduction was very helpful.

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ClareR (5686 KP) rated Dubliners in Books

Oct 28, 2019 (Updated Sep 8, 2020)

Dubliners

James Joyce, Terence Brown | 2000 | Fiction & Poetry

7.5

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I was sure I’d read Dubliners before - possibly during my English Literature A Level, but I couldn’t remember what the stories were about. They really give the reader a feel of what life must have been like at the turn of the last century in Ireland. They’re not all ‘pretty’ stories either. We see alcoholism (or at least heavy drinking that impacts life and family), poverty, suicide, missed opportunities and hard decisions. So, normal life for a lot of people.
I now wonder if I should go back and reread one of his novels?
Many thanks to The Pigeonhole for serialising this book.