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Title: well worth reading
Review: I enjoyed On Beauty. It is a book set mostly in upper middle class academia with some forays into lower class life. The depiction of life in academia with all the infighting is very well done. There is a dynamic between liberal and conservative philosophies that I would have liked to see more of. A lot happens in this book. There is marriage trouble, a depiction of the life of a up and coming street artist and student life at a fictional school that is modelled after the Ivy Leagues. Although I enjoyed this book I found it to be uneven. For example the disintegration and perhaps resurgence of the marriage is very interesting but the life of Carl and his conclusions about the world of academia are difficult to believe in. However, this is a minor complaint about an overall enjoyable book.
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