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133 reviews

Milkbottle H by Gil Orlovitz

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challenging emotional sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I have an original 60s hardcover copy that I found in a resale bookshop and all I say is yes. Absolutely yes. This book forced me to learn how to read all over again.
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Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

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adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

0.75

Acid Communism by Mark Fisher

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challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

This could’ve been Fisher’s magnum opus. But. It’s just an intro.
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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson

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adventurous dark funny informative slow-paced

4.75

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The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen

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informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

The Time It Never Rained by Elmer Kelton

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emotional reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.75

Poetry: A Pocket Anthology by John Keats, Mary Wroth, Edmund Waller, George Gordon, Alfred Tennyson, R.S. Gwynn, Robert Southwell, Andrew Marvell, Jonathan Swift, Lord Byron, Thomas Wyatt, Sir Philip Sidney, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alexander Pope, George Herbert, John Milton, Robert Burns, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Wordsworth, Thomas Campion, John Donne, Walt Whitman, Thomas Gray, William Blake, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Lovelace, Michael Drayton, Edmund Spenser, Robert Herrick, Robert Browning, John Dryden, William Shakespeare, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ben Jonson, Wanda Campbell, Anne Bradstreet

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informative reflective slow-paced

2.75

The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson

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dark funny informative reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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English Romantic Poetry by John Keats, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, Stanley Appelbaum

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? N/A
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.0