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The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray - Jorge Amado BOOK REVIEW

BUY BOOK HERE TO SUPPORT THE SHOW (Paid Link): https://amzn.to/4bdJzZT BUY BOOKS FROM HERE TO SUPPORT THE SHOW! (Paid Links) https://amzn.to/3NWvPsx AMADO ARTICLES: https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/07/arts/jorge-amado-dies-at-88-brazil-s-leading-novelist.html#:~:text=He%20was%2088.,failure%2C%20a%20hospital%20spokesman%20said. https://electricliterature.com/the-brazilian-novelist-who-inspired-borges-marquez-and-amado/ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-aug-08-me-31713-story.html AMADO INTERVIEW (SPANISH): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8XIc_zWWx4&t=567s SUPPORT / PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/booksarebetterthanfood INSTAGRAM: @booksarebetterthanfood https://www.instagram.com/booksarebetterthanfood MUG: https://www.zazzle.com/better_than_food_coffee_mug-168249045611119837 ----------------------- PATREON INFO: For $5+ per video Patrons you'll get : Entry in the Book & Coffee Jar Patron-Only Reviews All Reviews Ad-Free Discord Channel Access Better Than Friday Newsletter (5 things I'm interested in sent to you every Friday) ------------------------------- PATRON ONLY REVIEWS: Death in Venice - Thomas Mann https://www.patreon.com/posts/death-in-venice-88575877 The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus https://www.patreon.com/posts/myth-of-sisyphus-80534135 H.P. Lovecraft - The Call of Cthulhu (Halloween Special) https://www.patreon.com/posts/call-of-cthulhu-74055549 Hamlet: Poem Unlimited by Harold Bloom https://www.patreon.com/posts/66203438 10 Books to Be Read 2022: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63010254 Train Dreams by Denis Johnson https://www.patreon.com/posts/60574022 The Necrophiliac by Gabrielle Wittkop - Halloween 2021 https://www.patreon.com/posts/58073911 Death in Midsummer by Yukio Mishima https://www.patreon.com/posts/55759685 Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard https://www.patreon.com/posts/53139833 The Key by Junichiro Tanizaki https://www.patreon.com/posts/51134117 Platforms by Nina Power https://www.patreon.com/posts/48914140 Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk https://www.patreon.com/posts/45465524 Bookshelf Tour 2020: Part 1: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41287302 Part 2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/42817306 Part 3: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43783138 The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat https://www.patreon.com/posts/38823138 Margery Kempe by Robert Glück https://www.patreon.com/posts/38645694 Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov https://www.patreon.com/posts/37527267 The Lover by Marguerite Duras https://www.patreon.com/posts/35574016 11 Books to be read in 2020: https://www.patreon.com/posts/33921584 Atomic Habits by James Clear https://www.patreon.com/posts/32697977 Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal https://www.patreon.com/posts/30969884 The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene https://www.patreon.com/posts/29515320 Reading is Expensive (A Rant) https://www.patreon.com/posts/29065141 White by Bret Easton Ellis https://www.patreon.com/posts/26771749 A Room on the Garden Side by Ernest Hemingway https://www.patreon.com/posts/21573550 The Return by Roberto Bolaño https://www.patreon.com/posts/21019229 Darkness Visible by William Styron https://www.patreon.com/posts/20276630 "Blindness", an essay by Jorge Luis Borges https://www.patreon.com/posts/19529985 The Alligators by John Updike https://www.patreon.com/posts/18428537 The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain https://www.patreon.com/posts/17281418 Animal Crackers in My Soup by Charles Bukowski https://www.patreon.com/posts/16924023 A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez https://www.patreon.com/posts/16133547

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Eduarda Streit Morsch

Oh wow I’ve never heard of that book! Sounds like a great Sunday afternoon read ;) If you want more “wow” factor and deeper insight from Amado, you should check out Capitães da Areia (Captains of the Sand). It tells the story about a group of children that are homeless and that struggle to survive on the streets of Salvador. The book had a such a big impact due to its social criticism that the dictatorship ordered the books to be burned on the street, and Amado was arrested for “propagating communism”. It is a very raw and moving read, so I definitely recommend it. It’s one of the books we have to read in school :) Another book of social criticism is Cacau, which tells the story of the cacao plantations in Bahia. Gabriela and Dona Flor books are also great, and they were very shocking at the time for discussing polygamy and sexual freedom, plus having the main characters being women :))

Joseph Hodgson

The fragility of a psychology unable to incorporate mortality is fascinating stuff. I enjoyed your soliloquy and you can add Britian to that list, the anglosphere in general just can't hack it. This same idea appeared in Ballard's Empire of the Sun/Kindness of Women autobiographicals that I recently read. Both BTF imo but if I know anything about this channel's taste, the less conceited latter is more appreciable. Why 16:54 isn't the thumbnail, I'll never know. Nearly spat my tea over the screen. 😂