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Books like Born standing up 2007
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Born standing up
Books closest to Born standing up
Life among the savages 1953Also classical in form, warm and comic
All About Me! 2021Also classical in form, comic and resolved
The egg and I 1945Also classical in form, resolved and comic
Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen #1) 2005Also classical in form, warm and resolved
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 1981Also classical in form, warm and resolved
Boy 1984Also classical in form, resolved and warm
Notes from a small island 1995Also classical in form, warm and comic
Cheaper by the dozen 2002Also classical in form, warm and resolved
Le petit Nicolas 1960Also comic, classical in form and warm
Evelina 1778Also classical in form, resolved and warm
Funny Girl 2015Also classical in form and warm
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" 1984Also warm, comic and classical in form
The same feel, in other forms
Films
You Can't Take It with You 1938Also classical in form, resolved and comic
Big 1988Also classical in form, warm and effortless
Ruggles of Red Gap 1935Also classical in form, comic and warm
Series
Going Straight 1978Also classical in form, comic and resolved
As Time Goes By 1992Also classical in form, comic and resolved
The Mary Tyler Moore Show 1970Also classical in form, comic and warm
Games
Super Mario Party 2018Also classical in form, warm and resolved
Plants vs. Zombies: GOTY Edition 2010Also classical in form, warm and resolved
Peggle Deluxe 2007Also resolved, warm and classical in form
Albums
- Safe, Sensible and Sane 2025Also classical in form, warm and resolved
- Thirty Three & 1/ॐ 1976Also classical in form, resolved and warm
- Rare Bird Alert 2011Also comic, resolved and classical in form
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