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everyone following politics now should read Timothy Crouse's Boys on the Bus since everyone has already read Nixon Agonistes amazing how, despite the changes in technology, a lot remains the same
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but if we're doing fiction i will recommend Alaa Al Asany's The Yacoubian Building follows characters living in a once-wealthy apartment complex in modern Cairo and shows how intersecting economic, social and institutional oppressions profoundly affects their lives
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Apr 16, 2017 00:40
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Epic High Five posted:You're certainly welcome to pitch it formally so it can be voted on "This book holds a very special place in my heart...I guess you could say have a crush on it, a primitive sort of love that feels almost like parenthood and borders, perhaps, on lust" -HST
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Apr 16, 2017 00:42
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ok i will add just one more, Amin Malouf's Samarkand. best novel i read in 2016, follows the story of an illustrated manuscript of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. learn about court life in 11th century Persia, the foundation of the assassins by Hassan-i Sabbah, and the exploits of Omar Khayyam himself. and that's just the first half
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Apr 16, 2017 00:49
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hasn't everyone already read Candide
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Apr 16, 2017 01:18
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i guess i lucked out finding a copy for 50 cents at a garage sale when i was younger. then a couple years later i had to read it again for a college class
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Apr 16, 2017 01:50
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i never read anna karenina because the back of the book literally spoiled the ending which is why i never read the back of books anymore. or forwards gently caress the idiots who decide to put spoilers in the book descriptions even if it's an older book, gently caress them right to hell
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