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Read it in high school, specifically while waiting in a cartoonishly long line at the DMV. The best part is the one where Bono comes in, the worst part is everything else. He, like Haber and Obama before him, should not have accepted the Nobel.
In this memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of New York City : the denizens …
IDC what the Dylan simps have to say
Follows a man's thoughts and dreams during a single night. It is also a book …
redefined a medium
topian!
One day when I was in college. Was waiting to hang out with a friend later in the evening, so spent the day wandering aimlessly. Went to Kramers, where I picked this up, and then walked back towards Capitol South and spent three or four hours on a bench in front of the White House reading this. What a spooky virus.
Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and …
Got me through a few days of monotony at Olduvai Gorge as the Tanzanian Government was trying to pull a fast one on us by halting excavation until our antiquities permits came through (they already had, months ago; it was just some fake drama drummed up by the Leakeys). Regardless, I remember being entertained.
Journey to the Center of the Earth (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre), also …
One of my favorite books of all time. I was introduced to this book via the 'Penguin Classics' series, the branding of which, for some reason, I was attracted to as a child. I was in second grade the first time I read it, and by fourth grade I'd been through it three or four times. However, in fourth grade we had reading goals, in which we had to read so many approved chapter books by a certain date in order to get credit for the assignment. I told my teacher, Mrs. B**, that I'd read this book before, and she did not believe me. When I insisted she accused me, in front of the entire class, of lying, and didn't let me sit down until I admitted to lying to her. Later she gave me a mercy pass of a 70 for a creative writing assignment in …
One of my favorite books of all time. I was introduced to this book via the 'Penguin Classics' series, the branding of which, for some reason, I was attracted to as a child. I was in second grade the first time I read it, and by fourth grade I'd been through it three or four times. However, in fourth grade we had reading goals, in which we had to read so many approved chapter books by a certain date in order to get credit for the assignment. I told my teacher, Mrs. B**, that I'd read this book before, and she did not believe me. When I insisted she accused me, in front of the entire class, of lying, and didn't let me sit down until I admitted to lying to her. Later she gave me a mercy pass of a 70 for a creative writing assignment in which two guys explore space together, and one of these men eats the other's vomit. She was disgusted. Sent the story home to my mother so that I could get appropriately punished.
yeah ok, no
B)
Read this in one at night at a bar while I was in Nairobi. A prostitute kept interrupting me, asking me why I wouldn't buy her a drink. How could I explain the mental anguish of this book to her? I couldn't, I barely can to myself.
Taught it to my students
Key West, 2016. Sea levels are rising, coral reefs are dying. In short, everything is …
funny but not u know
A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in …
It's okay, interesting vision. The ending section was the most beautiful, probably because it was the only personal part of the book. The ending 'theme' was forced down your throat by the end.
Prose is strong, characters are strong, plot is strong. A strong book
Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel …
