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Emily Mortimer recommended Notes From The Underground in Books (curated)

 
Notes From The Underground
Notes From The Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Max Bollinger | 2011 | Fiction & Poetry
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"This still feels like one of the most radical books I’ve ever read. It’s considered to be the first existential novel. It’s the memoir of a nameless retired civil servant in Saint Petersburg who’s staging a protest against rational thought and says things like “Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human.”"

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Megan Abbott recommended In a Lonely Place (1950) in Movies (curated)

 
In a Lonely Place (1950)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
1950 | Classics, Drama, Mystery
(0 Ratings)
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"Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, and Nicholas Ray: the film-noir hat trick. Based on Dorothy B. Hughes’s very different but equally brilliant novel, it’s doomy, romantic, pitch-black, and unforgettable. The Criterion extras here are particularly superb, with special attention to the movie’s turbulent backstory (Ray and Grahame were divorcing during production). This is the movie for which I’m most intensely evangelical. It feels as vital now as it did a half century ago."

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Nigella Lawson recommended Middlemarch in Books (curated)

 
Middlemarch
Middlemarch
Rosemary Ashton, George Eliot | 2003 | Fiction & Poetry
6.3 (4 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"Despite its grand place in the literary canon, “Middlemarch” is really a rich, gossipy boxed set of a novel. I first read this as a teenager in short bursts nightly with a torch after lights-out, and it gripped me like a soap opera. The foolishness of the human condition, the urgency of its whims and fancies, and the often blinding need to find meaning are unsparingly chronicled in this feast of a book."

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Emma (229 KP) rated Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1) in Books

Apr 24, 2021  
Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
Patricia Cornwell | 2003 | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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7.3 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
I enjoyed this book, it's a pretty average detective novel. I enjoyed the pace of it, although not many murders happen in it. And I like the character Kay Scarpetta.
My only criticism would be for the best part of the middle if the story she seemed to focus too much on the science behind the evidence. There wasn't enough action.
Still an enjoyable read and I will read others by her
  
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Melanie Caldicott (6 KP) rated Time and Time Again in Books

Apr 29, 2021  
Time and Time Again
Time and Time Again
Ben Elton | 2014 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry, Humor & Comedy
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9.0 (2 Ratings)
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It's not easy to write a novel which is so philosophically thought provoking it is likely to turn your world views on their head. Which is educational and enlightening. And yet which is a great page turner of an adventure story with twists and turns aplenty. A good book is judged for me by how it has changed you after you have finished reading it. This fulfilled this in so many ways. Superb!