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| I read a different edition of Jataka Tales (a short collection of tales--definitely not all of them). Considering how many there are to choose from it seemed like the stories were incredibly redundant, and the translation was really stiff and boring...more | |
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| I really liked this book...it has the perfect balance of humor and emotion. It had a plot and sort of seemed to make sense but it's also completely absurd and poetic. I definitely enjoyed the first half of the book the most. It took me forever to fin...more | |
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| I actually enjoyed the overall story-arc and the ending. I just didn't particularly care for how it was written or presented. It seemed like the bulk of the story was just about how frustrated and confused the main character could become (perhaps, ho...more | |
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| This book is funny, emotional, and very "meta" in its treatment of the graphic memoir genre. Within the comics, Bell or her friends often comment on how the very moment we're reading about would make a good comic (or someone will say "this better not...more | |
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| I found this book really engrossing. Forney addresses a lot of issues that come up when considering creative people and mental illness--and what it means to be a person ("creative" or not) dealing with mental illness. I think what's most....satisfyin...more | |
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is reading Jataka Tales: Actually reading a completely different book of Jataka Tales (adapted by a different author) but it was published in 1956 with no record on Goodreads. If I'm not lazy maybe I'll create a record for it, but I'm skeptical it would be of much use to anyone else >_>
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“A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.”
― Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men
― Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men
“If there is something to desire,
there will be something to regret.
If there is something to regret,
there will be something to recall.
If there is something to recall,
there was nothing to regret.
If there was nothing to regret,
there was nothing to desire.”
― Vera Pavlova
there will be something to regret.
If there is something to regret,
there will be something to recall.
If there is something to recall,
there was nothing to regret.
If there was nothing to regret,
there was nothing to desire.”
― Vera Pavlova
“No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
― Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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