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Good and Evil — Two Interpretations, by Martin Buber

May 7, 2024 James K. Ribe

Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 1997.

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“Up From Slavery,” by Booker T. Washington

February 20, 2021 James K. Ribe

This was the first adult book I ever read. In sixth grade I ordered it from a book club for…

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“James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses,'” by Stuart Gilbert

December 23, 2020 James K. Ribe

Mr. Gilbert, a close friend of James Joyce, wrote this book based on lengthy conversations he had with the novelist.…

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“Dead Souls,” by Nikolai Gogol

October 17, 2020 James K. Ribe

You can get away with anything if you can make people laugh. Nikolai Gogol got away with a lot. This…

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“Fathers and Sons”

September 16, 2020 James K. Ribe

In “Fathers and Sons,” set in rural Russia in 1859, Turgenev gives us a highly educated young Russian named Bazarov.…

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“Invisible Man,” by Ralph Ellison

August 3, 2020 James K. Ribe

The meaning of the title is the theme of the book. The title means that the hero, a young black…

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A quote from “The Color Purple”

July 30, 2020 James K. Ribe

Celie and Sofia are talking about white people. (Page 105) “I just can’t understand it.” “What that?” I ast. “Why…

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“Profiles in Courage,” by John F. Kennedy

July 26, 2020 James K. Ribe

Jack Kennedy did not write this book. The whole world knows that. The prose is Ted Sorensen’s. The ideas are…

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Ulysses

James K. Ribe

I started reading James Joyce’s novel “Ulysses” in 1974, and finished in 2018. I will spend the rest of my…

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“The Color Purple”

July 18, 2020 James K. Ribe

I recently read “The Color Purple,” by Alice Walker (1982). Here is my interpretation of the THEME, or basic message,…

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