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Type: unknown

Status: —

Author: Harper Lee

Tags: school fiction american classic classics race @finished

Description: This is one of only two books that have managed to make me cry. It also made me laugh out loudThis is one of only two books that have managed to make me cry. It also made me laugh out loud at points, as few other books have done. If you haven't read this then you don't know what you're missing. Boo Radley is one of the best characters ever invented....

2005-09-18

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Type: fiction

Status: favorite

Author: Aldous Huxley

Tags: science fiction scifi classic surreal dystopia @finished novel

Description: ""Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian""Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come."...

2005-09-18

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Authors: J.D. Salinger J.D Salinger JD Salinger

Tags: fiction classic 5stars literature @finished classicliterature

2005-09-18