Smashbomb

"Its bathroom-reading title belies this astonishing, hilarious analysis of reading, memory, shame and the everyday fraud of shared experience — the illusion of consensus that is the glue of our conversational social contract. Written by a drolly self-effacing French professor of literature."

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Paulo Coelho recommended Tropic of Cancer in Books (curated)

Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry

5.0

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"Miller is the writer who gave me the initial stimulus to write. When I read Miller, I said to myself, ‘Okay, this is literature.’ He was a rebellious writer whose books were censored for years, and that in itself was meaningful for me."

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Dana (24 KP) rated Pearl in Books

Mar 23, 2018

Pearl

Marie Boroff | 1977

6.0

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This is one Medieval story that I wasn't a big fan of. The wording was confusing along with the story line itself. It was one of the more religious texts that I have had to read for my Medieval Literature class, and since I'm not the biggest fan of that kind of story, it obviously wasn't my favorite. This is possibly the same poet as the "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" poet, but I enjoyed that one more.

I recommend this to people who like Medieval Literature that has heavy ties to Christianity and convoluted plots.

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The Complete Guide to Fencing

Berndt Barth, Emil Beck and Claus Janka

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Joan Didion recommended The Executioner's Song in Books (curated)

The Executioner's Song

Norman Mailer | 1989 | Biography, Crime

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"I think no one but Mailer could have dared this book. The authentic Western voice, the voice heard in “The Executioner’s Song,” is one heard often in life but only rarely in literature, the reason being that to truly know the West is to lack all will to write it down. The very subject of “The Executioner’s Song” is that vast emptiness at the center of the Western experience, a nihilism antithetical not only to literature but to most other forms of human endeavor, a dread so close to zero that human voices fadeout, trail off, like skywriting."

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