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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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What book made you a reader?

Hello folks (and happy pride!! 🏳️‍🌈) I was wondering, which book got you into reading? Some of us probably was born with a book in our hands, whilst others first discovered their love for reading later in life, and there’s always a special culprit for that. For me, it was “Shatter me” by Tahereh Mafi. I’ve liked reading since I was very little, (my teacher took my book away in 2nd grade and gave me a kindergarten book because the one I had with me was too hard for me apparently) but in middle school I realllyyyy got into it. It was an average very boring summer day, and I saw someone had left their book on the table, it was a very pretty book, read the title “Shatter me” and I read the description and kept thinking about it days later. Then I finally caved in and bought it and there starts my journey. it was a very bumpy ride to finding my personal taste, a lot of wasted money and unhauling haha, but I have officially found it, and shatter me still remains in the top 3 best series :D (I should reread it soon, as well as all of Tahereh mafis other books) 🍀🌊

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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

Cormac McCarthy

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The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s. The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature. (from the back cover)

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Os Lusiadas: Poema Epico

Luís de Camões

Excerpt from Os Lusiadas: Poema Epico Determmada; reluzindo outro sim, com a maior eviden01a, a superioridade de ambas sobre todas as que depois d, ellas se tem, em diversas epocas, publicado ate os nossos dias. Para dar maior realce a minha emprezd, permittio-me finalmente o mesmo Senhor de brindar 0 publico com a copia do re trato de Camoesz assim 0 que amam Camo es, e que se deleitain de litteratura portugueza ena contrarzfo n, esta minha ediczfo 0' mais correcto texto, e a mais ampla prova do disvelo e curi0 sidade com que 0 lneancavel editor se esmerou efn dar ao Poema dos Lusiadas todo o esplendor que lhe he devido; honrando Ipor este modo, e quanto lhe foi pcssivel, o glorioso nome de Seu autorz pois ate quiz ajudar-me a rever e corrigir as provas typographicas d, este livro, em que pu zemos ambos o maior cuidado com o fim' de bbtermos que a sua publicaczfo in Visto 0 res guardo que requer a sumptuosidade da edica0 win possa, a par desta e na sua falta, supprar pela correccao e nitidez do seu texto as outras duas, hoje ta0 raras, de '1572; e assim satisfazer os desejos dos apaixonados estudiosos da litterah tura portugue'za. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.(Classic Reprint)

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All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

Martha Wells

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern. On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid — a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is. But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.

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Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants—Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together, and together they have haunted readers' imaginations for nearly four hundred years. With its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been generally recognized as the first modern novel. The book has been enormously influential on a host of writers, from Fielding and Sterne to Flaubert, Dickens, Melville, and Faulkner, who reread it once a year, "just as some people read the Bible."

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Capitalism at it's finest

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Favorite podcasts on Spotify

I like going on long walks, and normally like to listen to some podcasts. I'm not looking for audiobooks, but people that review them. I currently follow LifeOnBooks and Hardcore Literature. I also like Unsolicited Advice but it seems he left Spotify unfortunately. What do you guys recommend?

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Júlia Book

I see people recommending the Julia book to flesh out the character, I loved 1984 but I don't want to read just a "fanfic". My question is, is it any good? Does it respect Orwell's vision?

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The Stranger

Albert Camus

Published in 1942 by French author Albert Camus, The Stranger has long been considered a classic of twentieth-century literature. Le Monde ranks it as number one on its "100 Books of the Century" list. Through this story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."

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Júlia Book

I see people recommending the Julia book to flesh out the character, I loved 1984 but I don't want to read just a "fanfic". My question is, is it any good? Does it respect Orwell's vision?

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Thoughts from 92% (page 129)

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Henry is the devil.

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Thoughts from 0% (page 1)

"Wilde did not see these changes to his novel until after it appeared in print"

It must feel so unreal to be happy that your novel is published and then read it and realize that you have been censored and no one have told you. But then again with the law against "gross indecency" between men, he might already have known it would happen.

I look forward to reading his words. All of them.

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Offer some bookish advice

I’m curious on what other people’s minds are thinking!

Personally my peice of advice is to not get caught up trying to be a ‘real’ bookfluencer. Just enjoy it!

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