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There is a long tradition of Great Detectives and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for …
There is a long tradition of Great Detectives and Dirk Gently does not belong to …
Really funny book! You really get the sense that Douglas Adams was a huge computer / electronic music / quantum physics / drugs nerd. I think he would have been really fun to hang out with.
This is the first publication in English of the anthology that contains Breton’s definitive statement on l’humour noir, one of …
'The Sheltering Sky is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; …
I read the highlights after seeing the movie. The movie was terrible and exploitative and just from the bits I read didn't really convey the powerful moment of guilt that Kit has at the climax. It's a completely depressing story but something that resonates deeply. I just wish the book didn't trade so heavily in exoticism and alienation of the people of Morocco. They are merely props to Bowles' story.
I read the highlights after seeing the movie. The movie was terrible and exploitative and just from the bits I read didn't really convey the powerful moment of guilt that Kit has at the climax. It's a completely depressing story but something that resonates deeply. I just wish the book didn't trade so heavily in exoticism and alienation of the people of Morocco. They are merely props to Bowles' story.
Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. Working for …
The trans panic has not always been with us: it was invented. Award-winning historian Jules Gill-Peterson’s richly detailed narrative takes …
When this richly written novel first appeared in 1974, Samuel R. Delany began to sweep up what would eventually exceed …
I really loved the first half of the book, where Mayer recounts the events surrounding Krystallnacht in a Peoria-sized town in Germany. He then recounts his conversations over several weeks with folks from that area from a variety of backgrounds. It's an excellent look at each individual's motivations, experiences, and opinions before, during, and after the Nazi era. It's a sober warning that so many thought they were the best years of their lives until the Allied invasion. Most adored Hitler.
In the second half, however, the author starts generalizing about the "German people" and lays out a grand narrative about how they were predisposed to fascism due to geography and social norms. This is despite, however, him earlier in the book continually pointing out that similar prejudices to those against Jews exist in the US towards African Americans. The author is a quaker and I was vibing with …
I really loved the first half of the book, where Mayer recounts the events surrounding Krystallnacht in a Peoria-sized town in Germany. He then recounts his conversations over several weeks with folks from that area from a variety of backgrounds. It's an excellent look at each individual's motivations, experiences, and opinions before, during, and after the Nazi era. It's a sober warning that so many thought they were the best years of their lives until the Allied invasion. Most adored Hitler.
In the second half, however, the author starts generalizing about the "German people" and lays out a grand narrative about how they were predisposed to fascism due to geography and social norms. This is despite, however, him earlier in the book continually pointing out that similar prejudices to those against Jews exist in the US towards African Americans. The author is a quaker and I was vibing with his comments that strains of fascism existed in the US. But he just totally forgets it in the second half and leaves the reader feeling that Germany really was a unique case and they were destined to repeat history.
Another find at Chamblin Bookmine in Jacksonville. A critique of literature from English speaking authors who experienced the Spanish Civil War
