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Entries from August 2008

Book Review: The Kiterunner by Khaled Hosseini

August 31st, 2008 No Comments

My Goodreads Review
rating: 2 of 5 stars
The writing in this book deserves 4 stars. The ideas, however, deserve 2, and since I judge books on ideas, the book itself gets 2 stars. I’ll review each aspect of this book separately.
The Writing
This book communicates emotions like none I have encountered before. I assume [...]

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Book Review: Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare

August 21st, 2008 No Comments

My Goodreads Review
rating: 2 of 5 stars
This is the first Shakespearean play I’ve read outside of an English class and its the first time I’ve realized why we read Shakespearean plays in English class - they’re so damn obvious once you get past the frilly olde English.
Shakespeare’s characters explicitly tell the reader the themes of [...]

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Book Review: The European Union - How Does It Work?

August 21st, 2008 No Comments

My Goodreads Review
rating: 1 of 5 stars
I read the first two and a half sections of this book but then it was taken away from me by an airplane and the owner of the book who wanted to get on it.
I was interested in the EU as an experiment in global governance, the only way [...]

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