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The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp

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4.0

I started this at the end of last semester, but then it got lost in the shuffle of everything else I've been reading and working on.
Freud: A Life for Our Time by Peter Gay

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4.0

Peter Gay definitely taps into information about Freud that makes understanding Freud's theories and concepts much easier.
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

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4.0

Wa Thiong'o explores the issues of speaking your native tongue versus the language brought by the colonizers and gives life to an aspect of living colonial - and post-colonial - life that most people wouldn't even think twice about.