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| Author is chillingly frank about his actions toward Dahmer in his youth; reading this in one go was thoroughly unsettling, which is unsurprising. Poorly-researched, poorly-reasoned, and generally unhelpful, for a reflective retrospection, attitude to...more | |
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So far this book is absurd and offensive. The idea that it's necessarily Dahmer's parents and adults at the school who are to blame for his crimes is hammered home pretty early. The schools are chided for being overcrowded facilities where teacher...
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| Viscerally disturbing, this was one of the most powerful books I have ever read. It is about bravery, and love, and fear, and desperation. I loved the allegorical narrative style and how much more intense it was rendered by an unusual use of language...more | |
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I am ambivalent about this one. On the one hand, I would recommend it, with considerable enthusiasm. On the other hand, it is not a good book. I would recommend it because it is light-hearted, digestible, but still had the capacity to inspire joyful i...more |
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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
“Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
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