Books tagged with 'american': 86

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Tropic of Cancer

by...Henry Miller     average rating...4.3 / 5
tags...american france sex
shelved by...AdamB83 amandasue haneen nastasee
viewable entries...1

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entry by...AdamB83     updated...Jul 14, '09     spoilers...minor

Pretty amazing, especially coming out of the early 20th Century. Hilarious in his obsession with 'the C word' and sex and all the dirty diseases that come with it. Also, funny to watch Miller denounce the practice of putting so much importance on the literary geniuses like Goethe, Emerson, Tennyson, etc - but then watch as he quotes them left and right within his own prose. It's a wonderful experiment with language and stream of consciousness, though. Definitely worth being named a classic, even if a bit bizarre.

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Awkward and Definition: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag

by...Ariel Schrag     average rating...none
tags...american comic graphicnovel queer
shelved by...miserablizm
viewable entries...1

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entry by...miserablizm     updated...Jan 24, '10     spoilers...n/a

I can't get over how awesome this is? Alison Bechdel called it 'a scathing and meticulously documented autobiographical triumph', which is VERY TRUE.

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

by...Alison Bechdel     average rating...4.3 / 5
tags...american biography comix fiction graphic graphicnovel lesbian memoir novel queer tragicomic youngadult
shelved by...cherrys foxwrapped jo10999 miserablizm rtrosino telka
viewable entries...4

'Fun Home'

entry by...cherrys     updated...Sep 04, '07     spoilers...n/a

Brilliant, literary, funny, tragic, sad.

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entry by...miserablizm     updated...Jan 24, '10     spoilers...n/a

OH MY GOD

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entry by...rtrosino     updated...Jan 07, '09     spoilers...n/a

Graphic novel. Great images that just enhance and play along with the story. It's always amazing to me how an author can write literally two or three sentences on a page in a graphic novel, and you can still feel it tug at your heart strings. Great book. Wacky family for sure, with funny and serious elements.

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entry by...foxwrapped     updated...Jan 07, '09     spoilers...none

Very touching and well drawn memoir from the person behind Dykes to Watch Out For.

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Tender Is the Night

by...F. Scott Fitzgerald     average rating...4.5 / 5
tags...20th 20thcentury american classic crazy fiction insanity romance
shelved by...AdamB83 baberahamlincln eneagled oceanlistener thejulester
viewable entries...3

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entry by...baberahamlincln     updated...Aug 23, '06     spoilers...n/a

this book taught me that gin is the least detectable on the breath, if youre planning on becoming a functional alcoholic.

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entry by...oceanlistener     updated...Dec 12, '06     spoilers...n/a

This book was pretty sad. I don't think it was as much about Nicole's mental illness as their ability to stay in love with each other. Neither of them were particularly good people, they just wanted adoration from everyone around them.
As with Fitzgerald's other works, I feel like I might be missing something. I feel like I can't understand how truly grand the characters are supposed to be.

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entry by...AdamB83     updated...Jul 14, '09     spoilers...minor

This book is breathaking. I'm not a Fitzgerald fan - I did not enjoy The Great Gatsby, but Tender is the Night is quite an achievement. Fitzgerald does an incredible job of demonstrating how a life is touched, changed, and destroyed by involvement with a schizophrenic. Perhaps it is my own personal experience which connected me so well with this novel and with Fitzgerald's emotion - but, regardless, the imagery is vivid, the scenarios and plot credible, and the entire story absolutely moving and painful, as well as vindicating. I had to put the book down at many points, due to its ability to evoke sad and painful memories, but upon completion, I felt whole again.

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Quicksand and Passing

by...Nella Larsen     average rating...5.0 / 5
tags...1920s american classic fiction harlem race short
shelved by...thejulester
viewable entries...none
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Dallas new home builder

by...americanhomes     average rating...none
tags...american dallas estate homes legend real
shelved by...americanhomes
viewable entries...none
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Final Harvest: Poems

by...Emily Dickinson     average rating...none
tags...19th american nonfiction poetry
shelved by...thejulester
viewable entries...none
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Great Short Works of Herman Melville (Perennial Classics)

by...Herman Melville     average rating...3.0 / 5
tags...19th american fiction shortstories
shelved by...thejulester
viewable entries...none
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book (Signet Classics)

by...Washington Irving     average rating...4.0 / 5
tags...19th american classic fiction shortstories
shelved by...thejulester
viewable entries...none