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Michelle Walter

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A priceless slice of Americana and human spirit

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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-22-23

This book is a slow burn in which you don’t realize how attached you’ve become to everyone involved until the blows begin to land and your heart bleeds for them a dozen different times. I was not familiar with the story before.

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A MUST READ for anyone curious about Christianity

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Reviewed: 12-28-22

CSL in his paradoxically blunt elegance captures the deep not-so-secret “secrets” about Christianity in general with his typical wit and imagination. Topics explored include the Fall, Atonement, Christian virtues, the Trinity, and the Spiritual Life.

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CSL said it best: Buddhism is Hinduism’s greatest heresy.

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Reviewed: 10-31-22

I always dread picking up a different scripture lest it do one of two things: remake my whole world or be such an immense disappointment that I lose all respect for it. Buddha’s Words is the latter. Besides the atrocious sin of being a mediocre metaphysician, he unironically has the motivations of a stock fantasy villain. “Tired of suffering? Have you considered not existing? I’ll teach you to unmake yourself.”

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Reviewed: 05-13-22

The last two acts of Pericles are missing and the acts of Much Ado about Nothing are all mixed up.

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Nietzsche’s OC-don’t-steal

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Reviewed: 04-30-22

One would think the autobiographical allegory tale of a notorious egomaniac and intended antichrist bible would be more infuriating, but it’s just a mediocre stringing together of the author’s life of brooding, the kind of thing you’d expect a deranged redditor to post as his manifesto the day before commiting a mass shooting.

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A bajillion styles but no substance beyond humans are silly.

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Reviewed: 04-20-22

I thought American Psycho was hard to get through, but at least it had something to say. This marathon of writing experimentation feels like being inside the head of an ADHD who took the wrong meds or like watching a live chat in slow motion over a taped bar fight. And by the time you figure out what’s going on, you don’t care because nobody is particularly likable in their own right. This is the kind of “classic” you read for bragging rights, not enrichment.

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An English Literature MUST

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Reviewed: 03-25-22

Every time I revisit Narnia, like fine wine, it has grown better with age yet remained ever fresh. The joy Lewis’ fervor and mirth bring to one of the most beneficial books series ever penned makes one want to laugh and cry at the same time.

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Tantalizing and frustrating!

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Reviewed: 02-07-22

When I get to Heaven, the first thing I’ll do is march right up to C. S. Lewis’ door and demand the rest of HIS The Dark Tower.

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Kant can’t win

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Reviewed: 11-26-21

Kant makes a rum go at attempting to prove objective morality harmonious with free will without resorting to classical arguments for sense or perfection, but ultimately admits he must resort to the presuppositions those arguments were constructed to avoid in the first place. His project thus ultimately takes a rocky, bumpy detour to arrive at the same spot others found with less trouble: universal good is real, humans are imperfect and therefore not capable of completely grasping it in this world.

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Cute, but kinda clunky.

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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 09-10-21

The first half is the more engaging albeit not particularly character driven and more story dependent; events happen because of arbitrarily determined choices rather than organic decision making since the characters are all stock figures and the protagonist is quite inconsistent in his performance.
The second half leans more into character writing, just not the ones originally established. It distracts itself with the side characters instead of the protagonist, making for a lot of telling when I desired showing and the agency to occur mostly at the beginning and less at the end or to less significant effects.
Try this for the tongue-and-cheek self-reflection exercise and literary legacy, but then try The Pilgrim’s Regress by Lewis.

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