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Fear of Satanism didn't do much to media, but it shaped the real world to a surprising extent.
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“Listen, pimple face. Don’t go playing man when you’re only a boy."
You never read the same book twice...especially when you read them before and after publication.
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Amy Dunne knows that it's literally impossible to be a woman, too.
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Nancy Drew, the greatest of the twentieth century Girl Detectives, has a long and complicated legacy.
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The long, complicated, and repetitive world of Sweet Valley, from elementary school to Confidential.
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The President's baby never goes missing, but a lot else happens in Stoneybrook, Connecticut, involving babysitting.
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Trixie Belden, another of the ghost-written books for girls. This time with a lot of detail about horses.
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“The Myth of Sisyphus” and Absurdism didn't happen in a vacuum.
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The limits of knowledge, and of cynicism.
Le Guin swerved from the expected in her second Earthsea book.
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The third book in Rice's romantic, blood-soaked Vampire Chronicles dramatically upped the stakes and scope.