“I am tired, so very tired of thinking about Lacey Yeager, yet I worry that unless I write her story down, and see it bound and tidy on my bookshelf, I will be unable to write about anything else.”
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Is Worst. Person. Ever. a condemnation of all of us?
Is Raymond Gunt the worst person ever? At a minimum, he’s had some help…
This book’s main character, Raymond Gunt, may in fact be the worst person ever, or he may just be proof that assumptions and a lack of context make for the worst in people. Truth be told, that’s probably and sadly more common than we’d all like to think.
Declassify >Never Mind the Sex: Portnoy’s Complaint is About Finding Yourself
Portnoy’s Complaint was published in 1969 to controversy and acclaim alike. The book was fought against due to censorship of the language and sexual portrayals. While the swinging’ sixties were in full effect upon release, the publishing world wasn’t swinging to the same tune, nor was everyone onboard with the quite irreverent Jewish image.
I had no real clue what I was getting into when I cracked the pages of the book for the first time.
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Chaotic, irrational, and brilliant: A Confederacy of Dunces takes you for a ride
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, “The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel featuring Ignatius Reilly and his marvelous, madcap adventures in New Orleans,” is something unique to behold, and it is definitely worth holding.
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October Light has layers beyond its book within a book
There are quite a few stories within this book, including a book within a book that’s quite the read, but I’ll get to that in a moment. October Light, written by James Gardner, is based on two very specific things; a conflict between an old man and an old woman, as well as pieces of a fictional book that we read along with one of the characters.
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