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When I read Mostly Harmless I thought it had tied up a bunch of loose ends that on reflection were better off undone. Reading Foundation and Earth wasn't quite the same but what it does is tie together the Foundation series with the Bailey series....
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"TBH, I don't *mind*, you know, dark and destructive and fucked up and all that, but this is just so spectacularly badly written, and so contemptuous o...more
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“Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.”
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is reading Leningrad: "we warm ourselves...by burning memoirs and floorboards. Prose, it turns out, provides more heat than poetry. History boils the kettle to make our tea."
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I wasn't at all sure I'd like this book. Yes, I loved A Thousand Splendid Suns to bits, but that was in 2007 and I've grown a lot as a reader since then. And The Kite Runner, which I read a couple years later, I remember as a bit clunky. Happily,...
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“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis
― C.S. Lewis
“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
“Live to the point of tears.”
― Albert Camus
― Albert Camus
The Epic Saga of the Time Travelling Viking and the Highland Sheikh (Humor)
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updated Jun 21, 2011 08:33am
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A romance parody. Quite a bit of in-jokes and possibly completely unfunny cartography stuff. And Karl Marx.
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