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Title: The Challenges of Crafting a Thesis on "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith

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Listen to White Teeth and white teeth zadie smith audiobook new releases on your iPhone iPad or
Android. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Simultaneous paperback. Fine. Author's
first book. Smith doesn't rely on easy, obvious immigration issues to drive White Teeth; she goes
much deeper into characters' minds and families without preaching. I'm not sure why I'm reading so
many novels ( McTeague ) concerned with dentistry and teeth lately. I'm pretty damn sure Queen
Victoria and those who advised her and followed her -- NEVER saw this coming as they began the
British Raj. A winning debut in every respect,White Teethmarks the arrival of a wondrously talented
writer who takes on the big themes--faith, race, gender, history, and culture--and triumphs. You can
only use this image in editorial media and for personal use. Even though I don't remember a whole
lot of the story, I'm still in accord with that memory. This beautiful book is bound in full-tooled gray
leather with satin moire endpapers, satin ribbon bookmark and 22kt gold on the spine. Dealing -
among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three
generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the
ankle, it is a life-affirming, riotous must-read of a book. Smith does a lot of meandering, but in the
end, what do a fundamentalist Muslim, a Jehovah's Witness, and ardent animal rights activists have
in common. I really, really, wanted to love this book but 30 minutes in and I knew it was a bad idea
but still read on thinking the book would get better. Every character in this novel is over-defined,
over-drawn. Sometimes, the change that happens to a city or nation because of immigrants is hard to
measure in the first couple years. Samad does something unforgivable at this point, that separates his
family in a horrible manner. I can see why many other users on here have chosen not to rate it. A
second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite
literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality
doesn’t quite match her name (Jamaican for “no problem”). Smith is capable of writing dialogue for
anyone; regardless of background, she brings them to life. May contain limited notes, underlining or
highlighting that does affect the text. We also display a selection of stock at our Mayfair shop.
Different cultures are introduced, characters from Jamaica, Bengal and those passionate about
leaflets and witnesses. Octavo, 448 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus
dust jacket. It hates its theme nearly as much as it hates you, the reader. I was delighted -- Salman
Rushdie Relentlessly funny. Set against London’s racial and cultural tapestry, venturing across the
former empire and into the past as it barrels toward the future, White Teeth revels in the ecstatic
hodgepodge of modern life, flirting with disaster, confounding expectations, and embracing the
comedy of daily existence. Everything is said at least three times in the book. This is a character
study, with religious themes and historical references. The first U.S. edition of the author's first book.
448 pp. Laid in is a promo sheet from Barnes and Noble in NYC where the book was signed. So, like
I am want, I put the review off -- meaning to get to it -- and here I am finally writing about the book
almost two years after I first read it.
But White Teeth turns out be an example of where those novels fail and a sun-surface hot writer can
embrace the complexity inherent in both the smaller and larger narratives of multiple generations. I'm
also not sure if I understood every metaphorical nuance; I'm not English, Bengali, Muslim, or a
Jehovah's Witness, all elements intrinsic to the storyline, so I most likely missed symbolic elements.
Gli esseri umani di Zadie Smith crescono come i denti all’interno della nostra bocca: costretti a stare
vicini in uno spazio limitato, non tutti vengono su dritti e in fila, alcuni prendono posizioni diverse,
altri saranno inevitabilmente storti. Own it Choose how you pay us back over time, up to 6 months
interest free. Don't worry about that theme too much, because this book hates its theme. It all starts
with two men lost in WWI, having no real role in it, and discover it has ended without their
knowledge. Viewing Zadie Smith as an individual it is easy to see her brilliance, her potential, and
her ability from her first book to play with the big boys of English fiction. This book is in good
condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Outstanding. A very strong Four star 9.5 out of
12 read. Sorry, but I had to drop this GIF for a review of White Teeth:) 2010 read contemporary
modernclassic 115 likes 2 comments Like Comment Sean Barrs 1,121 reviews 46.5k followers
December 6, 2018 The last time I read a book with this much narrative confidence, power and
authority was back in January when I tackled Midnight’s Children. I enjoyed the generational nature
of how these families crossed paths and how each decision led to the most ridiculous set of events.
The richness of the characters’ lives fuse the countries of Bangladesh, Jamaica, and England together,
and friendship is discovered in an era and city where this is unexpected. I really, really, wanted to
love this book but 30 minutes in and I knew it was a bad idea but still read on thinking the book
would get better. To make this a little clearer, I feel like I need to write four seperate reviews in order
to talk about his book properly and rate each section differently. Two twin brothers, one who is sent
back to the Middle East in hopes of retaining the Muslim ways. Just a general Boo out to that.) Or, if
the characters were anything but stereotypical one dimensional shadow puppets with two modes:
Shouty and Really Shouty. The riotous and tortured histories of the Joneses and the Iqbals are
fundamentally intertwined, capturing an empire's worth of cultural identity, history, and hope.
Fathers make stupid decisions sometimes that have momentous consequences for the whole family.
She was culturally spot on with little details like the tag for Levi's jeans. Rear panel blurb by Salman
Rushdie. the U.S. edition -- preceeded by a British edition that was published earlier in the year. It
reminds me very much of the freeflowing histories written by Marquez and Allende, as well as
Salman Rushdie's strange little one-off treatise on cultural alienation, Fury. (Samad, in particular,
reminds me quite a bit of Fury's Malik Solanka.) Smith does many things well. Thus, I'm not going
to do anything inane like compare this work to the likes of Lahiri and Kogawa and other variations in
the theme and said that the way the subject was handled felt more or less real to me. Samad's wife,
Alsana, and Archie's wife, Clara, form a careful friendship. I really, really, wanted to love this book
but 30 minutes in and I knew it was a bad idea but still read on thinking the book would get better. It
all starts with two men lost in WWI, having no real role in it, and discover it has ended without their
knowledge. Smith followed a similar model in NW but that came together as it captured the city is
what trying so hard to evoke whereas this feels very much apart. My apprehension stemmed from the
story being potentially convoluted as the timelines are not always linear; and while they hold
invaluable weight, novels that have significant themes of war and politics have never been a personal
preference. I don't know if the delay points more towards my sometimes best laid plans falling and
failing, or my anal need to complete the circle and check things off lists. Smith's talent in language
arts is evident opening this book up to any page and blindly pointing at any paragraph. She's making
more effort to charm - which, I suppose, is only natural for a young unpublished author. I'm pretty
damn sure Queen Victoria and those who advised her and followed her -- NEVER saw this coming
as they began the British Raj.
They have twin sons named Millat and Magid, one a pot-smoking punk-cum-militant Muslim and
the other an insufferable science nerd. I denti sono come i figli, lo sviluppo e imprevedibile. But
please, allow me to try to win over your cold cynical hearts: --do you enjoy the prose stylizings and
authorial wit of David Foster Wallace. I seriously almost didn't make it through this read, and it is
only in the looking back that I see just how brilliant it is. Smith is as active as Simone Biles
cartwheeling all over each and every page: inventive writing, colorful writing, bold writing, witty
writing, triple axle writing. I'm not sure why I'm reading so many novels ( McTeague ) concerned
with dentistry and teeth lately. Any order made from this site is subject to our normal terms of
business, whereby title to any goods does not transfer from the seller until payment is received in
full, and is made under British law. White Teeth is Zadie Smith's debut novel and won multiple
literary prizes, including the Guardian First Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for
fiction. That means your payment information is always protected, and never gets seen by anyone.
That's not a criticism; every novelist has his or her models. I don't know if the delay points more
towards my sometimes best laid plans falling and failing, or my anal need to complete the circle and
check things off lists. Chi ha paura di perdersi, prova a ritornare alle sue radici. This isn't so much a
criticism of Smith's work as it is an explanation of why it is the way it is, and why it can be read as
contempt. 2007 447 likes 1 comment Like Comment Leslie 91 reviews 37 followers December 4,
2013 As many other reviewers have commented, I wanted to like this book more than I did. Fate and
fatalism. Ethnic relations. Male friendship. Race relations. Immigrants. Smith, Zadie English
literature, (2000-) Individual works. I would probably just go on and on and you all might think I
was in love or something. A few things this book had me thinking about. -How science and religion
have become polarized. -How different one generation is from the next, and how this impacts both.
-Many things are not at all what we expect. -What defines manhood. -How black and white thinking
is so dangerous. -How one action leads to unforeseen others, and all of life seems connected. It
instinctually yearns for instability, but prefers to admire chaos from afar rather than living in it.
Redundancy, stop. The redundant things, they are being, they must stop. I had difficulty getting into
the writing, the tone felt off and in as much as I tried, I just couldn’t like it. It was a place where the
colonized were becoming the colonizers. I was delighted initially, then reached a point where I
wanted all that leaping around to stop and the story to start. For if that's your habitus, you're not
going to like this book at all. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the
perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.See the very best of literature in a
whole new light with BrightSummaries.com. Even though 'White Teeth' debuted as the 21st century
was dawning, it painted a fictionalized but very real novel about the struggles America, England,
and Europe are going through right now. World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become
agents of England’s irrevocable transformation. A second. In this event, we will apply for the licence
immediately but it may take several weeks for the application to be granted; we will keep you
informed throughout the process. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience
all the features of our site. She creates these group scenes: multiple characters all talking at once, or
seeming to, yet the narrative thread is pulled neatly through. The story is dizzying in scope and
though are numerous plot threads to tie up, it all comes together in an immensely satisfying finale.
No wine for you. Shaking that paranoia off, I continue.
More so because I can't remember the last time a woman writer of contemporary literary fiction
made me laugh so hard. 1001-and-more baileys-prize bring-on-the-lols.more 141 likes Like
Comment Dan 32 reviews 14 followers December 3, 2007 This book started bad for me and just got
worse. However, it is also humbling when you read blogs, comments, and hell, just watch Trump on
Fox News. Octavo, 448 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket.
Smith does a lot of meandering, but in the end, what do a fundamentalist Muslim, a Jehovah's
Witness, and ardent animal rights activists have in common. Your use of the site and services is
subject to these policies and terms. Chi non ha mai capito nemmeno quali fossero le sue radici, prova
ad adattarsi, mimetizzandosi al caos della contemporaneita. Faint wear to underside of edges may be
present due to storage. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear
and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Zadie was elected a fellow
of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British
Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. Generational in nature and how certain events shaped their lives
in the most odd way. To that I say.ehh. It's been a while since my baseline lay along those particular
lines, and seeing how this reading turned out niggling doubts and annoyance free, I'd say I'm the
better for it. 5-star antidote-think-twice-all antidote-think-twice-read.more 76 likes Like Comment
Tom Quinn 572 reviews 191 followers December 22, 2020 They say life moves fast? No. Archie-
-working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt--is calling it quits, the deciding factor being
the flip of a 20-pence coin. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged,
Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a
knowing child whose personality doesn’t quite match her name (Jamaican for “no problem”).
Beautiful as new copy, signed on the title page (signature only) by the author. The metastable
personality is the natural reaction to uncomfortability with final vocabularies, but it itself is of course
just as self-defining as any of them (albeit in the opposite direction). It was a giant geography of
Karma, and not in a bad way. There’s an English family, the Chalfens, that reside in this house on the
left of the street, and although they lack the same depth that our flawed but beloved protagonists
have, why not give them an excessive amount of attention, too. I recently joined up with all the cool
kids and dropped a hundred dollars for an iPhone and I've been trying to make do with the
limitations imposed by the less than satisfactory goodreads app which I guess is better than trying to
navigate the site through safari on the phone but alas, I digress. Its critical and commercial success
made Smith an international literary sensation. There is no coherent thread, just a lot of scenes
designed to show us how weird, funny, grotesque, or dull these people of Indian, Jamaican, and
Turkish backgrounds are. You can still place a hold on the title, and your hold will be automatically
filled as soon as the title is available again. Three stars because it might have been that good, I've
forgotten all but the general gist of the book. The flowing currents shift and transmute based on the
scene's needs but it is always buoyant, a merry dance that settles comfortably somewhere between
the gorgeous prose of Realism and the whimsical wonkiness of Postmodernism. Case closed. Zadie
Smith was born in the working class suburb of Willesden in northwest London in 1975. Her story
alone, though it does not emerge until the second half of the book, made the novel worth reading to
me. Shell out thousands for tuition, break your back and brain on everything so that you may make a
living and never live it for the rest of your days, so that we may scoff at and scorn the few moments
youthful selves stretched out their mind out of their own true volition. It's like she read all Martin
Amis' early novels and to a large extent replicated his distinctive rhythms into her prose. This is the
amazing debut of Zadie Smith, and for me it is an instant modern classic. I fear that this review is
going to become a list of superlatives so I'll quell it here by saying, I loved this and I need to read
more Smith now. 21st-century read-in-2014 100 likes Like Comment Katie 292 reviews 410
followers March 23, 2019 Zadie Smith's prose style here is notably different from her later books.
Smith writes off worldview after worldview, but is of course unable to articulate her own because
her own is simply the absence of adherence to any such worldview.
You always want to hear what she has to say about everyday cultural life. But the truth is that Zadie
Smith’s voice is remarkably, fluently, and. White Teeth is a near-masterwork, the best book I've ever
read about different cultures' slow, tectonic plate-like creep past, toward, and into each other. 85
likes Like Comment Alias Pending 176 reviews 19 followers September 7, 2013 The Short: The only
thing this book hates more than its characters is you, the reader. I could put this down for weeks and
never want to pick it back up again. But it still felt unacceptable to me that the book begins with one
of the most intimate moments a person can experience (though it is treated with humor) and closes
with an equally major event in the life of that same character, yet we hardly KNOW this character.
Anyway, and this is hardly breaking news, but a dazzling first novel. Not for resale. It shouldn't be
used for commercial use which includes advertising, marketing, promotion, packaging, advertorials,
and consumer or merchandising products. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop (annoyed
that Archie's car is blocking his delivery area) comes out and bangs on the window, he gives Archie
another chance at life and sets in motion this richly imagined, uproariously funny novel. The research
Smith must have done to find out about all these different cultures and religions and political events
during the 1970s-1990s was spot on. At the end of the day, this 'story' is just a bunch of shallow
characters shouting religious catchphrases at each other. Ah, a perfect time to possibly regroup and
return to the lives of our main characters. White Teeth is a novel I felt I could skip five pages without
missing anything other than writing. White Teeth is like a four-room banquet with endless amounts
of food choices. Despite the book being what could be considered an acquired taste within the realm
of literary fiction, it is above all a mighty debut novel with great heart, perception, and
understanding. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. I
cannot pinpoint it except to say too long, too many paragraphs and pages of philosophical
meandering. A fine copy, with publisher's price sticker to front panel. Even though I don't remember
a whole lot of the story, I'm still in accord with that memory. Pay in 4 equal installments Use your
existing debit or credit card. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives.
Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. She spins a fascinating yarn that
entertains while pushing the reader to grapple with the realities that were faced by Archie Jones and
Samad Iqbal in 1945, and the realities we faced when Obama was elected, and the problems we all
currently face. I would have been more irritated about this particular point but I was so happy I was
done with the book, I was inclined to forgive it more than was deserved. I was delighted initially,
then reached a point where I wanted all that leaping around to stop and the story to start. Lei ha tanti
lettori e riconoscimenti e apprezzamenti, non necessita di averne uno in piu. While I don't want to
minimize the immigrant experience, white readers, I believe, feel some of the same vertigo as the
characters when navigating a landscape with different cultural touchstones, e.g. signs in Polish and
Korean up and down Chicago's Milwaukee Avenue. Her mother emigrated to the U.K. from Jamaica
in 1969 and married an Englishman thirty years her senior. There's no real story arc to hold the book
together. It was a place where the colonized were becoming the colonizers. Shell out thousands for
tuition, break your back and brain on everything so that you may make a living and never live it for
the rest of your days, so that we may scoff at and scorn the few moments youthful selves stretched
out their mind out of their own true volition.
I really, really, wanted to love this book but 30 minutes in and I knew it was a bad idea but still read
on thinking the book would get better. This is where I prefer Jhumpa Lahiri's narrative voice (her
later works) over Smith's - no inflection of moral and intellectual superiority, no pronouncing of
judgement on flawed choices but a restrained attempt at humanizing all characters. She builds each
character from the ground up and knows when to move from one to the next. Then, nothing much
more happens, as the older generations' struggles give way to the younger, including Moslem
cultists, genetic experiments on mice, the protests against Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (a
cheap way to wrangle a blurb from him- which worked!, as his is the first on the book's blurb page)
the Chalfen family, and then the book just ends- as if Smith grew bored with the whole damnable
enterprise, and thought she'd just pull the plug. Get it We pay the store, you get the goods, nothing
to pay today. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop (annoyed that Archie's car is blocking
his delivery area) comes out and bangs on the window, he gives Archie another chance at life and
sets in motion this richly imagined, uproariously funny novel. But, for me, White Teeth exists in the
curious, not-so-brave world of recent narrative where blacks serve as a convenient sideshow. We are
happy to accept payment by Visa or Mastercard, and ship expertly to anywhere in the world.
Halfway through it hit me, there's not a single male character here who isn't a loony. In this event,
we will apply for the licence immediately but it may take several weeks for the application to be
granted; we will keep you informed throughout the process. Lei ha tanti lettori e riconoscimenti e
apprezzamenti, non necessita di averne uno in piu. Don't worry about that theme too much, because
this book hates its theme. The fact that the real Indian, Jamaican and Bangladeshi diaspora are
reproduced here and not the imagined Indian, Jamaican and Bangladeshi diaspora of white writers
too reluctant to put in the requisite amount of research for getting the most inconsequential tidbits
right has much to do with it. In fact, I would argue Smith wrote the novel in part as a reaction to the
piety that obscures truthful narrative. Zadie Smith's talent and enthusiasm are tangible; she writes
like she's bouncing up and down in her seat. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have
read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. They capture a war architect after the
war and invent stories in some attempt to claim true manhood. Whole scenes are redundant and are
put in just to drive the reader (the hated reader - ok you get it, I'll stop) insane. Sometimes, the
change that happens to a city or nation because of immigrants is hard to measure in the first couple
years. What it means to go on, to find ourselves on the other side of suffering and to be met with a
ray of hope. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half
his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose
personality doesn’t quite match her name (Jamaican for “no problem”). The richness of the
characters’ lives fuse the countries of Bangladesh, Jamaica, and England together, and friendship is
discovered in an era and city where this is unexpected. All images are Stock Photos, not of the actual
item. book. I've noticed a common tone of grimaces and smirks at the college days of dorm room
philosophizing, BYOB's galore in the booze and bong and Bourdieu, and I have to say, why. A
second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite
literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality
doesn’t quite match her name (Jamaican for “no problem”). Along the way themes such as race
relations, religious extremism, immigration, and even the ethics of genetic engineering are explored,
all with an intoxicating energy and a sparkling sense of humour. I recently joined up with all the cool
kids and dropped a hundred dollars for an iPhone and I've been trying to make do with the
limitations imposed by the less than satisfactory goodreads app which I guess is better than trying to
navigate the site through safari on the phone but alas, I digress. I think that what Brandon interprets
as contempt is something far more ambiguous: let's call it detached superiority. Her cast of characters
is varied and nearly every one of them comes off as a fully flesh and blood human being. Little bit
cocky, little bit sharp, written within my lifetime by someone with little to no representation in the
halls of esteemed literature by means of race and gender and what have you and does not give a
flying fuck about it.
We often never fully grasp the bad and the good and the unintended of our decisions and policies.
The prose has a unique flare that gives the impression of living alongside each character as the years
go by, the emotions building up until they finally implode. I remember reading a short article in the
Guardian a while back that pointed out that in regards to Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh, “the three groups
share many areas in common, but the Punjabi Sikhs in Southall and southeast London, the Gujarati
Hindus in northwest London, and the Bengali Muslims in Tower Hamlets stand out most of all.”
(The Guardian). I loved realizing the London of Pepys, Dickens and Shakespeare was now a
completely different place. Loading interface. About the author Zadie Smith 98 books 14.5k
followers Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty,
NW, and Swing Time, as well as two collections of essays, Changing My Mind and Feel Free. This
book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. So even those I was inclined to like
wound up irritating me every time they opened their mouths. Thus, I'm not going to do anything
inane like compare this work to the likes of Lahiri and Kogawa and other variations in the theme and
said that the way the subject was handled felt more or less real to me. WorldCat Swap (2 have, 184
want) Genres General Fiction. Fate and fatalism. Ethnic relations. Male friendship. Race relations.
Immigrants. Smith, Zadie English literature, (2000-) Individual works. Granted I did take a 17 day
vacation and set this one aside during that break, but this was a huge struggle for me to get through.
Assimilation requires time and the immigration conundrum will never be felt as acutely by second
generation immigrants (like Smith herself) as by their progenitors. I was delighted initially, then
reached a point where I wanted all that leaping around to stop and the story to start. I could go on,
but I rather forget I ever read this. The metastable personality is the natural reaction to
uncomfortability with final vocabularies, but it itself is of course just as self-defining as any of them
(albeit in the opposite direction). Because the reason I'm willing to sit through the inconvenience of
text-typing out this small something of a review is because this book is the shiz and I would think
that anyone anywhere would find something to enjoy within the pages of this wondrous book. They
vouch for the authenticity of all items offered for sale. Some sections were better than others, with
characters who were more flawed and interesting to read about. It instinctually yearns for instability,
but prefers to admire chaos from afar rather than living in it. Two men, who find themselves alone
during the war become best friends-- Archibald Jones and Samad Iqbal. Outstanding. A very strong
Four star 9.5 out of 12 read. Sorry, but I had to drop this GIF for a review of White Teeth:) 2010
read contemporary modernclassic 115 likes 2 comments Like Comment Sean Barrs 1,121 reviews
46.5k followers December 6, 2018 The last time I read a book with this much narrative confidence,
power and authority was back in January when I tackled Midnight’s Children. Zadie Smith's
dazzling first novel plays out its bounding, vibrant course in a Jamaican hair salon in North London,
an Indian restaurant in Leicester Square, an Irish poolroom turned immigrant cafe, a liberal public
school, a sleek science institute. Sometimes, a place is best described by immigrants to that place.
Humorous stories. Immigrants Great Britain; Fiction. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.
First edition in about very good condition in a jacket with some wear. She was culturally spot on
with little details like the tag for Levi's jeans. But it's populated with real people who seldom
conform to expectations, and there is comfort in that. 5 stars. Stunning. If not a must-read, at least a
you-really-ought-to-consider-it -read. 73 likes Like Comment William2 779 reviews 3,260 followers
November 24, 2023 Superb. Franzen, for instance, uses humour all the time and excoriates large
areas of American society, but there's no perpetual undermining of his own characters for the sake of
inexpensive laughs. In September 2019, White Teeth was chosen by Guardian UK critics as one of
the 100 Best Books published in the 21st Century. Smorgasbord where white men get as proper a
representation in the wider plain of reality as demonstrated by their worldy demographic
percentages, rather than the plague of pretense sludging its way out of the past and into modern day
entertainment maintaining against all odds that women are objects and people of color haven't been
invented yet? Yes please. I can see why many other users on here have chosen not to rate it.

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