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Rate the last book you read.
8/10
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Blood Meridian

9.5/10

the ambiguity of the ending tore me up inside
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces

7/10

Psychoanalytic horseshit, but interesting
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Cloud Altas

8/10

Everything was top tier except Lusia Ray

Fuck her.
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Finite Humourlessness

0/10
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Tau Zero

5/10

I liked the emphasis on the science behind the spaceship, but the melodrama of the crew got repetitive after a while. Plus it was annoying how every problem a man had was solved by the 1st officer fucking him.
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Ulysses

4/10

One of, if not the most overrated canon works I've read, even Infinite Jest (which was also dissapoitning) was better.
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>>7356079
Well I guess we better go tell all those scholars that the book is actually overrated now--what would we do without you
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East of Eden

9/10
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>>7356000

V. 7.75/10
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8/10

bretty fun read, didn't have a lot to say apart from justifying zealotry tho
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>>7356000
kawabata's Snow Country

9/ 10

could be nothing but kawabata's depictions of scenery and still 9/10
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10/10 I couldn't ask for anything more from a biography.
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10/10
Entertaining, profound, beautifully written.
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>>7356271
Are you me?
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7/10

insightful look at what the novel is and how it has changed (although Shields' definition of novel/fiction is too narrow), w/ inspiring passages on authenticity and originality. highly recommend.
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9.5/10. Hilarious. Shits on everything. Robinson was an absolute madman.
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>>7356287
Disraeli is based af

Thanks for posting this, anon, I'm gonna check it out.
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>>7356000
Shakespeare's Memory
8/10
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Wind Up Bird Chronicle 7/10
If I took a lot more time to analyze everything I would probably like it more
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>>7358004

that book is dank dude
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8.5 leaning towards 9/10
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10/10. What more could I wish for from science fiction? It's an inspiring book about the boundaries of humanity, and an intelectual game full of suprises.
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Ulysses

4/10
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