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| This is another of those left field (for me) Christmas entries on my reading list courtesy of my aunt. It doesn't start well: writing in the second person rarely does, and when "you" are an elephant, well, you kind of feel like things might just go f...more | |
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| Walking around with this book made me feel like yet another Berkleyan post-hippy fuming over my unresolved anger and guilt over yet another heinous crime perpetrated by my European cultural forebears: they didn't just enslave Africans, they didn't ju...more | |
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All That the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms
"Oh, everyone in California caries a musical instrument while mushrooming. Mine is a sousaphone."
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| Enjoyable read, but not quite the head trip of its billing. The way your allegiance as a reader shifts from character to character is fun, and the slowly cultivated sense of dread is intriguing, but by the time you get to the dirty secrets they just...more | |
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
"Haha, exactly!"
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Ken-ichi
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“He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.”
― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
“General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.”
― Marvin Minsky
― Marvin Minsky
“Good art is not universal. Bruce Willis is universal.”
― Sherman Alexie
― Sherman Alexie
“We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!”
― Terry Gilliam
― Terry Gilliam
“The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.”
― Jean Rostand
― Jean Rostand
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