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Oct 13, 2018
Antonomasia
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Mostly skimmed, over the course of two or three hours, because it was either that or never reading it.
I'd always been scared of this book, but, catching up on classic Polish literature (albeit books not about the war whenever possible), the book's brevity, and Borowski's place as one of the author case studies in The Captive Mind made me have a go. I read the introduction a couple of days ago - I like introductions in their own right - and figured that actually, I'd been right all along, I woul ...more
I'd always been scared of this book, but, catching up on classic Polish literature (albeit books not about the war whenever possible), the book's brevity, and Borowski's place as one of the author case studies in The Captive Mind made me have a go. I read the introduction a couple of days ago - I like introductions in their own right - and figured that actually, I'd been right all along, I woul ...more
Apr 07, 2019
Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ...
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it was amazing
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This is one of the most powerful books I have read, and because of that it is hard to take. I read one story a day because my heart couldn't take any more than that. But I loved it nonetheless.
The first two sentences of the first story were probably the most telling, and most brilliant, starting lines I have read. They will stay with me forever.
All of us walked around naked. The delousing is finally over, and our striped suits are back from the tanks of Cyclone B solution, an efficient killer o ...more
The first two sentences of the first story were probably the most telling, and most brilliant, starting lines I have read. They will stay with me forever.
All of us walked around naked. The delousing is finally over, and our striped suits are back from the tanks of Cyclone B solution, an efficient killer o ...more
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Emrys
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