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“All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning” Umberto Eco

I hate this book with the fire of a thousand hells

I feel like something terrible is about to happen. Why am I still reading this? Oh yes, for book club.

This book freaking sucks. Just be happy already. I’m depressed enough without reading about characters who COULD be happy together if they would just stop being so dumb.

This book is really sad and hard to read

I don’t know that I’ve ever seen so many uses of the F-word in one book…

This book is good!!

“The bottom line is this: You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it…” James Baldwin