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Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as academic)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,150 ratings — published 1978
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as academic)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,108,169 ratings — published 1925
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as academic)
avg rating 3.69 — 207,939 ratings — published 1848
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as academic)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,086,690 ratings — published 1960
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as academic)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,412 ratings — published 1989
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as academic)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,881,153 ratings — published 1590
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as academic)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,541 ratings — published 1976
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as academic)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,168 ratings — published 1975
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as academic)
avg rating 3.84 — 398,093 ratings — published 1513
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as academic)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,050,401 ratings — published 1623
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,774,227 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as academic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,715,265 ratings — published 1949
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as academic)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,262,741 ratings — published -750
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as academic)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,937 ratings — published 1983
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as academic)
avg rating 3.97 — 231,889 ratings — published -400
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as academic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,298,166 ratings — published 1954
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as academic)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,771 ratings — published 1968
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as academic)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,317,985 ratings — published 2011
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,084,780 ratings — published 1601
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as academic)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,986,621 ratings — published 1818
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as academic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,932,455 ratings — published 1937
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as academic)
avg rating 4.17 — 612,124 ratings — published 2011
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as academic)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,214 ratings — published 1918
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 84 times as academic)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,647 ratings — published 2017
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as academic)
avg rating 4.04 — 470,446 ratings — published 1997
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as academic)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,993,348 ratings — published 1951
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as academic)
avg rating 3.44 — 938,811 ratings — published 1850
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as academic)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,606 ratings — published 1961
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as academic)
avg rating 4.19 — 48,966 ratings — published 1949
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as academic)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,076 ratings — published 2010
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as academic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,965,382 ratings — published 1963
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as academic)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,390 ratings — published 1952
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as academic)
avg rating 4.21 — 491,328 ratings — published 1988
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as academic)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,423 ratings — published 1981
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as academic)
avg rating 4.33 — 180,194 ratings — published 2019
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as academic)
avg rating 4.01 — 909,315 ratings — published 2005
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as academic)
avg rating 3.50 — 354,969 ratings — published 1000
How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as academic)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,200 ratings — published 2007
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as academic)
avg rating 3.94 — 531,741 ratings — published -750
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as academic)
avg rating 4.02 — 30,927 ratings — published 1962
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as academic)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,582 ratings — published 1904
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as academic)
avg rating 3.89 — 447,143 ratings — published 1603
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as academic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,400,173 ratings — published 1847
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as academic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,504,070 ratings — published 1942
The Craft of Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as academic)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,478 ratings — published 1995
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as academic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,309,514 ratings — published 1947
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as academic)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,978,659 ratings — published 1813
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as academic)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,392 ratings — published 1981
Leviathan (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as academic)
avg rating 3.70 — 54,698 ratings — published 1651
The Social Contract (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as academic)
avg rating 3.78 — 59,893 ratings — published 1762
“One of the more interesting things you'll notice in the entire history of poetry & poets, art & artists is those useless untalented individuals that call themselves " experts" or " critics" . The sad fact is that throughout that same history people actually were gullible and listened to them and bought their books or paintings. We no longer live in the age where poets were mass- read or rockstars but even now, in the 21st century we unfortunately must still deal with these ridiculous fops who merely give themselves these titles and use this as a tool to destroy or slander, debase or tear apart the works of other more talented poets so that their needy lackluster words will steal the other poets thunder and limelight to make themselves the center of attention. How pathetic is that? Very pathetic indeed. Hence ? We are far smarter than those who once fell for these self centered antics and we have thankfully made these manipulative con artists extinct. POETRY & ART is for EVERYBODY. From different countries, backgrounds and cultures. And the myth of experts or critics has finally been flushed down the toilet where they belong. Their words & voices now meaning what it was in the first place. NOTHING.”
― WHERE THERE IS NO VISION POEMS 2020 R.M. ENGELHARDT
― WHERE THERE IS NO VISION POEMS 2020 R.M. ENGELHARDT
“A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.”
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