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The Conquests of Alexander the Great

April 18,

I thought that this was a very informative book. I learned a lot of new and interesting facts about Alexander the Great that I did not know before. However, it was very dry. I felt like I was reading a textbook, which was okay for me, because I like learning, but I think that a younger reader would have lost interest very soon. It was laid out exactly like a textbook and was not at all engaging. I understand that it is an autobiography, but I have read historical books before that were extremely engaging. So, over all is was a good book to learn new facts about Alexander the Great and the many conquests that he went on, but I felt like it needed to be spiced up a bit. Alexander had some great battles and an amazing strategic mind, I feel like it would have been quite easy to make a book about him engaging, but instead this book just threw facts at my face. But overall, it was very informative, and I learned a lot of new information from this book.

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Violence: 2- The book talks about the battles that Alexander was in, and sometimes describes some wounds he received, but it is not at all graphic.

Language: 0- There is no bad language is this book.

Sex: 2- It talks about concubines a king had, and Alexander's father leaving his wife for another women, nothing at all graphic or bad.

Drugs and Alcohol: 0- It does not talk about drugs or alcohol at all.

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British singer (born )

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Steven Patrick Morrissey (MORR-iss-ee; born 22 May ), known mononymously as Morrissey, is an English singer and songwriter. He came to prominence as the frontman and lyricist of rock band the Smiths, who were active from to Since then, he has pursued a successful solo career. Morrissey's music is characterised by his baritone voice and distinctive lyrics with recurring themes of emotional isolation, sexual longing, self-deprecating and dark humour, and anti-establishment stances.

Morrissey was born to working-class Irish immigrants in Davyhulme, Lancashire, England; the family lived in Queen's Court near the Loreto convent in Hulme and his mother worked nearby at the Hulme Hippodrome bingo hall. They moved due to the s demolitions of almost all the Victorian-era houses in Hulme, known as 'slum clearance', and he grew up in nearby Stretford. As a child, he developed a love of literature, kitchen sink realism, and s pop music. In the late s, he fronted the punk rock band the Nosebleeds with little success before beginning a career in music journalism and writing several books on music and film in the early s. (Morrissey later said, in , that he "did not ever join" the Nosebleeds.) He formed the Smiths with Johnny Marr in and the band soon attracted national recognition for their eponymous debut album. As the band's frontman, Morrissey attracted attention for his trademark quiff and witty and sardonic lyrics. Deliberately avoiding rock machismo, he cultivated the image of a sexually ambiguous social outsider who embraced celibacy. The Smiths released three further studio albums—Meat Is Murder, The Queen Is Dead, and Strangeways, Here We Come—and had a string of hit singles. The band were critically accla

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Book Snobs Hate That Morrissey's Bio Is a Penguin Classic

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To some people, publishing brands still matter. And to those biblio-gazers, Penguin's decision to publish Morrissey's autobiography as a Penguin Classic might be sullying the imprint's revered name. The Guardian has a snarky explainer on Morrissey's upcoming biography (out on October 17) today and spends most of the piece chiding Penguin for its arrangement with the legendary singer:

What next? JK Rowling? Worse, I'm afraid.
Not Martin Amis. No, Morrissey.
Who? A popular singer who has written his autobiography.

The paper adds:

Where will he fit in Penguin's pantheon? Just after Montaigne.
Is Morrissey happy with that? For the moment.
How does Montaigne feel? "He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."

Get it? Getting Morrissey's autobiography is a big deal and may be a major financial coup, but Penguin had to sell a little piece of its soul to get it.

Others seems to agree. "Penguin has unwittingly set fire to its own reputation. It has shown itself willing to cave in spectacularly to cultural relativism, to embrace the modern fashion for eschewing judgment in favour of squawking: 'Everything is equally valid.'" writes Brendan O'Neil for The Telegraph.

The counter to these vocal cries of how Morrissey's book is going to lower our cultural standards is that Penguin is simply playing the game. Making money off Morrissey will allow the imprint to survive and print future editions of Montaigne.

What we don't know yet is if Morrissey's book is actually any good or worthy of the "classic" label (whatever that means to you). But that hasn't stopped anyone from passing judgment.

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