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– Personal ramblings, thinly veiled as thoughts on what I read

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December 9, 2022October 26, 2021

Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates

Oh look, I actually liked one

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October 14, 2022September 25, 2021

The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 – James Fenimore Cooper

Said to be the first great American novel, one find themselves asking why.

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September 30, 2022August 27, 2021

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

There are some things I don’t want to discuss with my students. Here’s one.

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September 2, 2022August 27, 2021

A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway still feels like a burden, but I didn’t this one so much.

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June 10, 2022July 28, 2021

Gulliver’s Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World – Jonathan Swift

So called ‘classics’ pretty frequently don’t age very well. I am not sure why this is such a controversial statement.

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February 18, 2022May 5, 2021

On the Road – Jack Kerouac

‘On the Road’ is one of those classics that won’t be a classic much longer.

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October 15, 2021April 8, 2021

The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

Reading the so called classics often leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. This is one of the few that I actually enjoyed.

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Erotica, Fiction, Gay, MetaFiction  1 Comment

April 1, 2019September 22, 2018

Reamed By My Reaction To The Title Of This Book – Chuck Tingle

Chuck Tingle’s “Reamed By My Reaction To The Title Of This Book” might be the most life changing book you ever read…

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March 23, 2018February 10, 2018

Stand on Zanzibar – John Brunner

It’s a strange, ‘happening’ future. Contemporary, and sixty years too late

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