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| I'm reading Gladwell's books out of order. I first read Outliers (his 3rd book), now I've read Blink (his 2nd), next I'm going to try and get my hands on The Tipping Point and then finally his latest- What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures. But let's...more | |
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| Despite the grade I'm giving the book I'd still advise all to read it. It's a touching, raw, emotional, true story that everyone should read. My critique for the book is not going to be about story or characters because I can't critique those. Rather...more | |
“I hate a Roman named Status Quo!" he said to me. "Stuff your eyes with wonder," he said, "live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that," he said, "shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“Father Pierre, why did you stay on in this colonial Campari-land, where the clink of glasses mingles with the murmur of a million mosquitoes, where waterfalls and whiskey wash away the worries of a world-weary whicker, where gin and tonics jingle in a gyroscopic jubilee of something beginning with J?”
― Graham Chapman
― Graham Chapman
A Short Horse Tale (Biographies & Memoirs)
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updated Mar 29, 2010 04:33pm
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Just an indepth explanation about my own experience, and that of my dad's, with horses. Inspired by Susan Richards's Chosen by a Horse. Not really intended to be critiqued, but just a reflection on something in my life.
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