Books tagged with 'uni': 12

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Trumpet: A Novel

by...Jackie Kay     average rating...3.0 / 5
tags...twentiethcentury uni
shelved by...mallyland miserablizm
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The Woman and the Ape

by...Peter Høeg     average rating...none
tags...danish fiction humananimalmachine scifi twentiethcentury uni
shelved by...miserablizm
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Selected Stories

by...Katherine Mansfield     average rating...5.0 / 5
tags...awesome fiction modern realism shortstories surrealish twentiethcentury uni
shelved by...miserablizm
viewable entries...1

'OMG'

entry by...miserablizm     updated...Jun 04, '10     spoilers...none

This is awesome, especially the earlier stories - so disarming and surreal even though they're set in the 'real' world. New literary crush, much.

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A Distant Shore

by...Caryl Phillips     average rating...3.5 / 5
tags...british contemporarylit fiction immigration queerbits racism realism twentiethcentury uni
shelved by...AdamB83 miserablizm
viewable entries...1

'[entry title]'

entry by...miserablizm     updated...Jun 07, '10     spoilers...none

I couldn't figure out if some bits were badly-written or slightly overzealous imitation of the characters on the part of the author. This was an infrequent problem, though. Overall it was interesting and quite penetrative. I think the more affecting parts of the book were down more to the content than the writing style.

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Moll Flanders

by...Daniel Defoe     average rating...none
tags...british eighteenthcentury uni
shelved by...miserablizm theduckthief wvrunna221
viewable entries...1

'[entry title]'

entry by...miserablizm     updated...Jun 04, '10     spoilers...n/a

It was an alright read - if this rated out of ten I'd give it a seven - but, that said, when it came to the exam, I could remember very little of it. Preferred Roxana.

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The Man of Mode (New Mermaids)

by...George Etherege     average rating...3.0 / 5
tags...play uni
shelved by...miserablizm
viewable entries...1

'[entry title]'

entry by...miserablizm     updated...Jul 14, '08     spoilers...none

Especially amusing, but one I think I'll have a lot more to say about once I've started studying it.

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Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)

by...Charles Dickens     average rating...3.6 / 5
tags...british classic classical_fiction dickens fiction lit uni victorian
shelved by...AdamB83 carmelita cmays87 cverge drneevil ELMviola miserablizm mjvasile pomilton6 readread schuylerf snoopylibrarian split_my_infinitives the_denton_affair trutreasure wordy
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'[entry title]'

entry by...trutreasure     updated...Nov 21, '06     spoilers...n/a

great long cozy read

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entry by...the_denton_affair     updated...May 19, '07     spoilers...n/a

Again, this site should rate out of ten, because Great Expectations would get seven. I found it cute, which, while fun and a delight, is not what I read books for. The points at which I was truly engaged were too distant from each other to save this book for me. I don't mean to say that I think it a failure - I don't at all; it just didn't transport me into that stream of terrible beauty that the books I find truly satisfying wrench me into.

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'Great Expectation Review'

entry by...drneevil     updated...Jul 28, '07     spoilers...minor

BLURB
Pip is raised in abject squalor. He meets a hardened criminal one night in an eerie graveyard, and impresses him with his good nature.
After this, he is exposed to a crazy old lady, Miss Favisham and her beautiful niece Estelle.
Years later, Pip is raised into society by a mysterious benefactor, and his snobbishness, fall from grace, and ultimate redemption is laid out for us to enjoy.

REVIEW
After the misery that was 'A Tale of Two Cities', Dickens returns to his comedy (albeit dark) roots in this fabulous epic.
Personally, for me, the whole book is about Miss Favisham! One of the greatest vindictive cows in literary history (up there with Lady Macbeth and Xenia, she also makes a fab appearance in Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next Series).

Pip is one of those delightfully gormless hero's. he does nothing to deserve the love and support of his family. His talents are never really as great as he thinks, nevertheless, one roots for him throughout this classic!

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'[entry title]'

entry by...miserablizm     updated...Apr 07, '08     spoilers...n/a

Again, this site should rate out of ten, because Great Expectations would get seven. I found it cute, which, while fun and a delight, is not what I read books for. The points at which I was truly engaged were too distant from each other to save this book for me. I don't mean to say that I think it a failure - I don't at all; it just didn't transport me into that stream of terrible beauty that the books I find truly satisfying wrench me into.

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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 4th Ed.

by...Rene Descartes, Donald Cress     average rating...none
tags...philosophy uni
shelved by...the_denton_affair
viewable entries...1

'[entry title]'

entry by...the_denton_affair     updated...Apr 22, '07     spoilers...none

How tiresome.

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The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers (Penguin Classics)

by...Henry James, Anthony Curtis     average rating...4.0 / 5
tags...fiction horror tales uni
shelved by...miserablizm the_denton_affair
viewable entries...2

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entry by...the_denton_affair     updated...Mar 23, '07     spoilers...n/a

I think, if I were to have a competition with Nicholas Guest to see who bummed Henry James harder, I would win. He manages to strike the balance between the concise and the beautiful, and it's *great*.

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entry by...miserablizm     updated...Apr 07, '08     spoilers...none

I think, if I were to have a competition with Nicholas Guest to see who bummed Henry James harder, I would win. He manages to strike the balance between the concise and the beautiful, and it's *great*.

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The Woman Warrior : Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Vintage International)

by...Maxine Hong Kingston     average rating...3.0 / 5
tags...feminist fiction hs uni
shelved by...miserablizm readread seekingblue the_denton_affair tropics
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entry by...the_denton_affair     updated...Feb 27, '07     spoilers...none

Pretty, glittery, distant; it swept me up but it didn't take me anywhere.

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entry by...miserablizm     updated...Apr 07, '08     spoilers...none

Pretty, glittery, distant; it swept me up but it didn't take me anywhere.

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