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“The status of celebrity offers the promise of being showered with ‘all good things’ that capitalism has to offer. The grotesque display of celebrity lives (and deaths) is the contemporary form of the cult of personality; those ‘famous for being famous’ hold out the spectacular promise of the complete erosion of a autonomously lived life in return for an apotheosis as an image. The ideological function of celebrity (and lottery systems) is clear - like a modern ‘wheel of fortune’ the message is ‘all is luck; some are rich, some are poor, that is the way the world is...it could be you!”
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“I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”
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Helen’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Helen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
5,855 books
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578 friends
2,944 books
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211 friends
1,094 books
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25 friends
961 books
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39 friends
2,291 books
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85 friends
515 books
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600 books
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140 friends
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Favorite Genres
Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Chick-lit, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Romance, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, Travel, Young-adult, and Women's Fiction
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