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Animal Farm took me one afternoon and stayed for years
On Animal Farm · by rakib_mahmud · 30 Oct 2026
It's about a hundred pages long and it looks like a children's book. We read it in school and I thought it was just about Russia. It's the horse, Boxer, that gets to you. He works harder and harder an…
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo needs a hundred pages to warm up
On The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · by imran_sarker · 29 Oct 2026
Stick with it. The start is a lot of Swedish financial journalism and I almost returned it. Then Lisbeth Salander properly enters the story, an old man hires someone to solve a forty-year-old disappea…
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Wuthering Heights is not a love story, please stop saying that
On Wuthering Heights · by farhana.akter · 27 Oct 2026
Everybody in this book is horrible to everybody else, for two generations, on a very windy hill. Heathcliff hangs a dog. I don't understand how this ended up on lists of great romances. And yet I love…
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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