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| Lots of interesting ideas and philosophic discussions. Some parts were a bit tedious, but all in all I'm definitely glad I got around to reading this book! | |
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"Have you read Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World? My favorite Murakami book, and it'll probably be available!"
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| Overall this was a pretty good book. It started off very strong, lots of action, all sorts of crazy interesting ideas introduced. I really enjoyed the scene where Damage is played. Then, when they're in the tunnels trying to find the Mind for the las...more | |
“Everything about us, everything around us, everything we know and can know of is composed ultimately of patterns of nothing; that’s the bottom line, the final truth. So where we find we have any control over those patterns, why not make the most elegant ones, the most enjoyable and good ones, in our own terms? Yes, we’re hedonists, Mr. Bora Horza Gobuchul. We seek pleasure and have fashioned ourselves so that we can take more of it; admitted. We are what we are. But what about you? What does that make you?”
― Iain M. Banks
― Iain M. Banks
“The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.”
― Paulo Coelho
― Paulo Coelho
“The belief-transmission network of which we are a part cannot operate without a continuously replenished supply of people to do the transmitting, thus the belief that children are a source of happiness becomes a part of our cultural wisdom simply because the opposite belief unravels the fabric of any society that holds it.”
― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness
― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness
