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Toryp

Toryp

Joined January 2020

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I am thoroughly enjoying this book. Allows for insight into how iQ and EQ play equal parts of our conscious whole. The heart and the head. Describe How these ideas are being skewed on college campus. One must struggle through discomfort in order to finally think!

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I Hate the Internet | Jarett Kobek
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I LOVED THIS BOOK!!! Jarett Kobek a self described Vonnegut stylist (or not) pulls a Vonnegut in his scathing and satirical look into contemporary American values of “art as culture” or “art as commodity” in describing how huge American corporations steal the personal to make money.

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Twelve Angry Men | Reginald Rose
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I‘m 1887 the play started riots because a woman had the audacity to discover her real self. Beautiful and classic.

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My all time favorite. I am Billy Pilgrim. I am unstuck in time.

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A mortality play.

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Citizen: An American Lyric | Claudia Rankine
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Best book I‘ve read in a long time. Her writing is captivating

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Awesome!! Totally ripped from other writings in order to make a point that there is nothing new to say.

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the book is often compared to writings of kurt vonnegut as stated by the author himself. i love vonnegut and enjoyed “only americans“. There is one chapter, 23, the full throat of christian virtue which gives very insightful thoughts of our socio-political lack of awareness and historical discombobulation of what it means to be a global citizen. A chapter, i believe all should read and contemplate.

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Dear Corpse | John Colburn
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The best of contemporary poetry on love and loss and loss. Play Aerosmith‘s “Dream On” on repeat as you read. Life and love—Fuck!

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Brief stories of how individuals who have touched the authors life. There‘s a lot of dead people they know.

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A very white story of growing up underprivileged. Gives little or no recognition to how his whiteness played into his success and tries to sell the Horatio Alger myth to contemporary society. I saw a lot of similarities in his story and mine but I feel it lacks a broad view of American life and the politics of power.

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Pass Over | Antoinette Nwandu
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Is a black urban take on Samuel Beckett”s “Waiting for Godot” and does an interesting job of bringing out the existential life n of black America. saw the play @ Steppenwolf in Chicago and had to read.