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Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust
Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust | Nathanael West
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Two short novels, one set in New York and the other in Hollywood, dramatically depict the extremes of the human condition and the destructive forces pervading modern American life.
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MrsBatt
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“The cigarette was imperfect and refused to draw.”

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gradcat
Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust | Jonathan Lethem, Nathanael West
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#anglophileapril

(Day 29 - #OwnerOfALonelyHeart)

*I‘m soooo literal....

Leftcoastzen Love that old edition, I love West. 6y
Reviewsbylola I love the blurb—a comedy with tragic implications! (edited) 6y
emilyhaldi Cool cover 😍 6y
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Mdargusch Perfect! 👌🏼 6y
gradcat @Leftcoastzen Omigod! I‘m so glad to know that someone else has read West. I don‘t really know of many people who enjoy his books. 6y
gradcat @Reviewsbylola @emilyhaldi @Mdargusch Thanks for your thoughts, ladies! ♥️ 6y
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Lola
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The first novella is this two novella volume was so-so/2 stars for me. Parts were brilliant but overall, it didn't work for me. My two star rating description from my GR page: "It was ok. Maybe a little more than ok, maybe a little less. It might have been really good in parts. But overall it was flat and left me a bit cold." That about sums it up. I'll give it a "it was a little more than ok" but not much. Maybe 2.5 ⭐️s On to Day of the Locust.

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Lola
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I've barely read three pages and this is already depressing the hell out of me. Yikes. @Waynegjr Classics in Brief @RoscoeBooks Book Club, July.

seebiscan I picked this up this weekend...here's to hoping it isn't completely depressing! 7y
Lola @seebiscan I think that particular hope is going to be futile. I do hope to see you at Classics-missed you at Fiction! And side note-I don't like the print/font/format/layout of this edition at all 😑 7y
seebiscan I'll be at classics and fiction this month! 😊 7y
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Libby1
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Panpan

NOT FOR ME.

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Lola I'm fifty pages in and I feel ya...😑 7y
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Libby1
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Well, I'm finding this pretty awful so far.

I'd Bail but it's only 110 pages. 😬

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Libby1
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"'But that reminds me, I'm expecting one of my admirers - a cow-eyed girl of great intelligence.' He illustrated the word intelligence by carving two enormous breasts in the air with his hands. 'She works in a book store, but wait until you see her behind.'"

Laura317 Oh my gosh! 😳😂 8y
BookNAround I read this in high school for a Literary Outcasts class but I don't remember passages like this! (Maybe because high school was a thousand years ago.) 8y
Libby1 Wow - you read this in high school, @BookNAround ? What did you think of it then? 8y
Libby1 No kidding, @Laura317 . It only got worse. 😬 8y
BookNAround Yeah, the high school I went to was pretty incredible. All I really remember about the book was that it felt very depressing. 8y
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m.galehuxley
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I started to read this one because I read that Flannery O'Connor was influenced by Nathanel West. I've recently started to admire O'Connor, so I'm trying to learn as much from and about her as possible. I can certainly see how she was influenced by Miss Lonelyhearts, and I'm not even very far into it.