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The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now by Meg Jay

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slow-paced

2.25

Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

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dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

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challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

this may be common knowledge - and it’s mentioned briefly in the book itself - but so many slang terms in this book resemble slavic vocabulary - to read this in english as someone whose native language is indeed slavic (serbian) was absolutely absurd?

for example:
(in the book = serbian = english)
zvook = zvuk = sound
prestoopnik = prestupnik = one who disobeys [laws]
droog = drug = friend
litso = lice = face
rooker = ruka = arm
gulliver = glava = head
goloss = glas = voice
malenky = malo = a little
govoreeting = govoriti = to speak
NOGA = NOGA = LEG

and many many more examples -truly fascinating stuff that was

otherwise what has to be happening in one’s mind to write such a book?

as for content warnings - literally anything you could think of, it’s only 140 pages but my god is it a dark book.

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