Animal Farm (Cliffs Notes)
 life: it all comes back to the animal farm: "all animals are equal, some are just more equal than others." Never did words ring so eerie, never did words ring so true. The philosophy underlying The Animal Farm and 1984 are so scary because they [... more]
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Madame bovary
Chronique amazon.fr: Flaubert avait beau affirmer qu'il désirait faire du style le coeur d'un "livre sur rien", son premier roman n'en est pas moins un récit, un roman de la "fatalité", comme le souligne [... more]
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CliffsNotes on Orwell's 1984
read the book: I decided to read the cliffnotes instead of rereading the book before I had a test on it. It was awful, the cliffnotes completely fail to really illustrate the ideas George Orwell was trying to convey. 1984 is an excellent book and well [... more]
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Orange Blossom Special
From Amazon.com: Perhaps this should have been titled The Freewheelin' Johnny Cash in homage to the watershed Bob Dylan album. Though conservative country music and liberal folk shared little audience base at the time, Cash crossed that bridge by [... more]
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Introducing Foucault
The many heads of Foucault: Let's dispense with the niceties. This is Foucault for Dummies. I think it says a lot about Foucault that his greatest work and ideas can be distilled into the most readable, digestible nuggets of information possible, [... more]
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Vanity Of Duluoz
Wonderful and mostly honest rewrite of his debut: A rewrite of "The Town and the City" after ol' Jack shook off the Wolfe influence (to a degree). Terribly honest just as most of Jack's work is, often unflattering, but terrific to read. It [... more]
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Way Of The Wiseguy
Disappointing. Warmed-over rehash of better titles.: Joseph Pistone takes a page out of the handbook of those he put away and shakes down mafia aficionados for a quick buck. There is nothing in this writing that hasn't been documented before by other [... more]
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Introducing Baudrillard
\oprice\c worth spending: The "Introducing" series are very effective in my view because they both go in depth with the critical theories or foundations of a certain thinker and go through their less significant points. I think seeing all the [... more]
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Madame Bovary
Chronique amazon.fr: Flaubert avait beau affirmer qu'il désirait faire du style le coeur d'un "livre sur rien", son premier roman n'en est pas moins un récit, un roman de la "fatalité", comme le souligne [... more]
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Vampires: The Occult Truth
From Amazon.com: Feeling drained? Perhaps you are the unwitting victim of a psychic vampire. Want to know more? In this his second book, Konstantinos explores the folklore surrounding the blood-drinking vampire and, more importantly, exposes the threat [... more]
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Revised Common Lectionary: The Consultation on Common ...
Roman Lectionary Remains Superior: Whilst being identified as "ecumenical," this revision of the very Protestant Revised Common Lectionary makes little changes in this Revision. The coordination of the Gospel reading with the Old Testament [... more]
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The Sight of the Stars
What a letdown: I have always looked forward to Belva Plain's new books, but this may be the last time I buy one in hardback. I kept waiting for something else to happen...the "affair" just did not live up to the claim of "unimaginable [... more]
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