Ecclesiasticus44 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Audacity: Inspiring Speeches of Barack Obama
Barack ObamaEcclesiasticus44Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail [Until the Next Election, Where a Republican Victory Will Be an Existential Threat to the Republic] https://t.co/BuQ508kv3e https://t.co/g1394HtZN5
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Friday Night Lights
H. G. BissingerEcclesiasticus44Bissinger v. Deadspin is an interesting one to revisit. Friday Night Lights has a humanity no one in the history of Deadspin can come close to touching. https://t.co/vz9Xr3yhWZ
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The Machine Stops: Science Fiction Dystopia - A Doomsday Saga of Humanity Under the Control of Machines
E. M. ForsterEcclesiasticus44@martymacmarty Have you read EM Forster’s The Machine Stops? A good dystopia along those lines.
Paperback, 2021
$4.10$2.05 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Matilda
Roald DahlEcclesiasticus44It’s probably a mistake to think they even care about anyone reading the books one way or another. It’s all about severing the tie between Matilda(TM) and Willy Wonka(TM) and nasty bigot Roald Dahl so Netflix can make new adaptations with a clear conscience
Paperback, 2007
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
JFK: The Book of the Film
Oliver StoneEcclesiasticus44Watching Oliver Stone’s JFK doc, it’s easy to why Cyril Wecht has had such a successful career. “World’s most charismatic forensic pathologist” is a low bar to clear.
Paperback, 2000
$20.99$10.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Homage to Catalonia
George OrwellEcclesiasticus44War and Peace audiobook has the same narrator as Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia, so it feels like George Orwell is reading me War and Peace
Paperback, 2015
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail
Jonathan ChaitEcclesiasticus44Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail [Until the Next Election, Where a Republican Victory Will Be an Existential Threat to the Republic] https://t.co/BuQ508kv3e https://t.co/g1394HtZN5
Paperback, Large Print, 2017
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hamlet: Screenplay, Introduction and Film Diary
William ShakespeareEcclesiasticus44@davo_arid Brings back memories of my hypocritical 12th grade English teacher who emphasized that Shakespeare was written to be performed, not read, and then got mad at my friend and I for renting the Kenneth Branagh Hamlet instead of reading it.
Paperback, 2010
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
American Psycho
Bret Easton EllisEcclesiasticus44@MidwesternBoat I saw someone agreeing with that thread and naming American Psycho as another example where conservative fans must be missing the point since it comes from a gay author, as if Palahniuk and Bret Easton Ellis are towing the HRC line politically
Paperback, 1991
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
Byung-Chul HanEcclesiasticus44@royllovians I just finished The Disappearance of Rituals by Byung-Chul Han and think it would fit nicely on your list
Paperback, 2020
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book