What did you read this year?
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280
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Longest Book
333
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Average book length in
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306
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Robert’s
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2024
4.5
4.5
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.26
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Robert’s first review of the year
really liked it
Thoughts on The Mind in Exile. It is frightening how ineffective the loud and anguished arguments and protests of Germany’s intellectual elite were against the barbarisms of Hitler and his mass followers, and how passive and acquiescent the burgeoning upper middle and capitalist classes were in turning a blind eye.
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Robert’s last review of the year
it was amazing
Andrey Platonov (1899-1951) was a highly gifted writer and social observer as well as a competent public works engineer. As an engineer he worked widely in peasant villages and rural areas of Russia. As a writer and observer of peasant life (85 per cent + of the Russian population), his depiction of poverty, beggary, homelessness, vagary, hunger, crop failures, child mortality, and illiteracy in his novel Chevengur is unmatched, with a Chekhovian
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