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“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
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Lorraine Hansberry
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"I'm going Zelazny with Doorways in the Sand. Only just started, but enjoying it a lot already.
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(Read in 8.5 hours @ 192 wpm) Some early short stories from Niven's Known Space universe. All of them are pretty good and pretty science-fictiony. |
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(8 hours @ 251 wpm) The plot in this one got a little too convoluted for my taste. Not reading it all in one go, it was easy to forget some of the details. The characters, dialogue and historical backdrop are as rich as the first books though. |
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(6.2 hours, 216 wpm) This is an ugly duckling story set on the famed world of Pern. While it's engagingly written, and ties neatly into the greater story of Pern, I found the plot onedimensional and the characters even more so. Likely younger readers w...more |
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“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein
― Albert Einstein
“I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.”
― John Scalzi
― John Scalzi
“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
― Carl Sandburg
― Carl Sandburg
“You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.”
― Abbie Hoffman
― Abbie Hoffman
“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
― Lorraine Hansberry
― Lorraine Hansberry
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