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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing
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All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
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Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
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Man, Hamlet’s reflection and remembrance of his parent’s relationship is moving 🥲
“… so loving to my mother that he might not beteem the winds of heaven visit her face too roughly”
Loving his dialogue so far.
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Hamlet
William Shakespeare
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I am genuinely speechless. I did not expect to enjoy this book as much as I did; the characters felt so real and sincere and I am in absolute awe of Anne Brontë’s prose - not to mention the courage she must have had to publish this. Every sentence was so artfully constructed without pretension. She used no unnecessarily intricate words than what was needed to beautifully convey and relate this captivating story, yet the writing felt exquisite. Helen’s quiet strength and selfless nature was moving and she is a character I will not soon forget.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë
sillystring commented on AlanDD4's review of Notes from Underground
Una porquería de principio a fin. No hay historia, no hay trama, no hay desarrollo de personaje, más que solo el monólogo irritante de un narrador sin nombre sin habilidades sociales, con severo daño mental, incompetente en todo lo que hace, y que solo sirve para lamentarse de la miseria que él mismo busca. Todo esto sería perdonable si tan siquiera hubiese un atisbo de querer mejorar, pero no. el narrador solo te dice que el mundo es una basura, que él es una basura, y que tú y todos somos una basura, pero que él es mucho más gradioso y superior porque está orgulloso de serlo y es consciente de serlo. En fin, podría extenderme por horas, pero ya le dediqué demasiado tiempo a esta basofia. No pierdan el suyo.
A complete and utter piece of filth. There's no story, no plot, no character development, just the irritating monologue of a nameless, socially inept, mentally damaged narrator who's incompetent at everything he does and whose only purpose seems to be lamenting the misery he himself creates. All of this would be forgivable if there were even a hint of a desire to improve, but there isn't. The narrator simply tells you that the world is garbage, that he's garbage, and that you and everyone else are garbage, but that he's far grander and superior because he's proud of it and aware of it. Anyway, I could go on for hours, but I've already wasted too much time on this garbage. Don't waste yours.
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The Confessions of St. Augustine
Augustine of Hippo
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Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
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