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“Small wonder how pitiably we love our home, cling in her skirts at night, rejoice in her wide star-seducing smile, when every star strikes us sick with the fright: do we really exist at all?”

January 25, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Here is Walker Evans: You know some of these photographs probably: I am not sure that I liked this book much. Well, you can see that from my rating. I think my issue with my own feelings is that I actually should have liked this book a lot because of my slightly more former Socialist leanings. I never would have been a Communist but I would vote for Socialist candidates, but I would like a more established ground-up party than say a certain Senator might […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: james agee, let us now praise famous men, walker evans

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:20 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: james agee, let us now praise famous men, walker evans ·
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Two ruminations on life and death.

September 16, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Johnny Got His Gun 4/5 Stars This book has been on my To Read list since I was in high school. A combination of it being a book my dad would talk about (he never talked about books), being in the Metallica video, and various other sources, it’s always been around but it wasn’t until I started this year out implementing SSR (self-selected reading) in my English classes and had a used copy in a book bin that I finally decided to give it a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: A death in the family, dalton trumbo, james agee, johnny got his gun

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:371 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: A death in the family, dalton trumbo, james agee, johnny got his gun ·
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