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Beyond Strange New Words
Beyond Strange New Words rated it 7 years ago
I am only giving it two stars because this book is for some reason considered a great classic, but I really didn’t like it. After overcoming the initial shock of Huxley’s brave new capitalist eugenics utopia, I kept asking myself through most of the book what Huxley was high on and reminding myself ...
Abandoned by Booklikes
Abandoned by Booklikes rated it 9 years ago
I gave this 3.5 stars but rounded to a 4 on Goodreads."But if you know about God, why don't you tell them? asked the Savage indignantly. Why don't you give them these books about God?For the same reason as we don't give them Othello: they're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about Go...
MassInsanityReads
MassInsanityReads rated it 9 years ago
I didn't like it... like at all.
A sort-of book blog
A sort-of book blog rated it 10 years ago
I found To the Lighthouse a little slow and difficult to get into to begin with. As someone who tried to read Mrs Dalloway in lower sixth, and who ended up giving up in frustration, I wasn't especially looking forward to this part of the module. But once you get used to Woolf's prose style, and get ...
BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it 10 years ago
As much as I liked Vile Bodies, Waugh's other books just leave me cold. There is wit, and then there is spite. Waugh just somehow doesn't seem to be able to rise above the latter. Yes, there are some fine caricatures, but what spoils them is that Waugh tries too hard at times and comes across a...
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