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It's admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned that after a while you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging. Or to kic... " Read more of this review » |
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“Is you is, or is you ain’t my constituency?”
(O Brother Where Art Thou? Coen Brothers’ film, 2000) Do corrupt and greedy humans beget corrupt and greedy politicians? Do we get the leaders we deserve? Poet Robert Penn Warren received the Pulitzer... " Read more of this review » |
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BOLD FRANKENSCIENCE AND MIRTH
In Greg Bear's funny and creepy and REALLY insane story, the rogue scientist invents a virus which... goes viral. Well, what did he expect? That it would stay where he told it and just watch tv? It develops intelligenc... " Read more of this review » |
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Why do I love The Great Gatsby? A lot of people would likely agree with me when I say that F.Scott Fitzgerald's writing here leaves only a little to be desired. The characters themselves seem shallow and empty, lacking in morality and you could ta... " Read more of this review » |
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| This was just okay. Oddly, it had exactly the opposite problem as the last (and only other, so far) Charles Stross novel I've read so far. Neither are enough to put me off reading more. When I read Singularity Sky, I found the writing very dense, and...more | |
“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire
― Voltaire
“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers
― Dave Eggers
“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman
― Richard P. Feynman
“This is what it is to be human: To see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving - and to act, to strive. This is what it is to be human: to reach forever beyond your grasp. This is what it is to be human: to live forever or die trying. This is what it is to be human: to perpetually ask the unanswerable questions, in the hope that the asking of them will somehow hasten the day when they will be answered. This is what it is to be human: to strive in the face of the certainty of failure. This is what it is to be human: to persist.”
― Spider Robinson
― Spider Robinson
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Place to meet and talk about anything.
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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A group to gather and discuss, question, comment, interpret, review etc. Drinking of actual Margaritas while reading and/or discussing strongly encour...more
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So I heard Skippy Dies...
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...let's read about it. Start October 1st-ish.
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