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Matt’s 2024 Year in Books
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Matt Kelland
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| Not much of a story: it's more a lecture on the history of ballooning. Interesting, if only because it's an insight into early science fiction. Verne was trying to find ways of educating people about science through stories. It's not very good, but i ...more | |
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| Very prosaic account, and Jules Verne didn't write it, he merely edited it and proof-read his brother's work. It would probably have been interesting when it was published, in the days before photography or television, when few people would have had ...more | |
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| This isn't how I remember it at all. In fact, I wonder whether I've ever read it before, or whether I've only ever read children's abridged editions or the novelization of the Disney movie. It's not so much of an adventure story, it's more of a natur ...more | |
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Matt Kelland
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The Needle-Watcher: The Will Adams Story, British Samurai
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I quite liked this one: Giles Milton is always enjoyable.
Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan Giles Milton " |
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Jules Verne writes Gothic horror? Did not expect that. Weird little monsters, deserted castles, cursed clocks? Did not expect that either. It was his first published story (1854), but it already has some of the classic Verne ambiguity about science. O ...more |
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| I didn't know CAS wrote sci-fi. This is basically just a pulp science fantasy adventure, where the narrator finds himself on an alien planet, and CAS has fun describing a strange new world. It's okay, but I wouldn't bother searching it out unless you ...more | |
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| Probably my favourite book ever. I've bought countless copies and given them away. ...more | |
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“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something”
― Information Anxiety 2
― Information Anxiety 2
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
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“Have you no respect for the past? For what was thought and believed by your foremothers?”
“Why, no,” she said. “Why should we? They are all gone. They knew less than we do. If we are not beyond them, we are unworthy of them—and unworthy of the children who must go beyond us.”
― Herland
“Why, no,” she said. “Why should we? They are all gone. They knew less than we do. If we are not beyond them, we are unworthy of them—and unworthy of the children who must go beyond us.”
― Herland
“Those “feminine charms” we are so fond of are not feminine at all, but mere reflected masculinity—developed to please us because they had to please us, and in no way essential to the real fulfillment of their great process.”
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