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Native Son is another one of those books I’m reading because it’s on multiple top 100 novels lists, and, oddly enough, they keep ending up to be fabulous. This one was no exception to that rule. I really like books that not only have a terrific plot line, but make me think about the world that they are set in and how things are different now, or worse, how things have not changed at all and really should have by now. Please read this, particularly the defense’s monologue at the end. It’s long, but it makes such relevant points that more people should pay attention to.
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3. Learn to tango
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4. visit all 50 states
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5. see the Pacific Ocean
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6. swim with manta rays
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7. see a volcano
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8. find a job i love
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9. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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10. stretch every day
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11. play better rugby
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12. take a pottery class
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13. knit a sweater
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14. figure out what i want to do with my life
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15. own my own home
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16. design a tattoo
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17. learn to ski
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18. Learn Sanskrit
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19. learn Latin
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20. meditate daily
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21. find my passion
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22. Read Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
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23. Read The Radcliffe Publishing Course's "100 Best Novels of the 20th Century"
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24. Read 50 books in 2011
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About the end of the world, and what happens slightly afterwards. It’s pretty good conceptually, but I really wished that the plot had been a little bit thicker and better developed.
Not the type of book I’d normally pick up, for sure. I read it because my sister handed it off to me to return to my mom, and a book left in my possession more often than not gets read. This book was apparently written to make the author feel better about herself after working the job from hell and being a jerk to her friends. Dear Ms. Weisberger, it’s nice that you learned something, but you really don’t need to publish a novel to show the American public that. On the whole, we don’t care. On the plus side, The Devil Wears Prada did have refreshingly less Hollywood-ending than the movie, but I think the theme was better suited to be a movie and not much else. On the whole, I wouldn’t bother reading it if I were you.
