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by (shelved 37 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.28 — 8,820 ratings — published 2016

by (shelved 20 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.76 — 638 ratings — published 2020

by (shelved 17 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,163 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 16 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.81 — 458 ratings — published 2019

by (shelved 16 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.63 — 453 ratings — published 2014

by (shelved 15 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.50 — 167 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 13 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,066 ratings — published 2020

by (shelved 11 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.78 — 353 ratings — published 2011

by (shelved 10 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.10 — 399 ratings — published

by (shelved 10 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.15 — 35,961 ratings — published 1958

by (shelved 9 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.22 — 952 ratings — published 2016

by (shelved 9 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.78 — 439 ratings — published 2001

by (shelved 8 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,057 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 8 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.71 — 177 ratings — published 2003

by (shelved 7 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,043 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 7 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,074 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 7 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.74 — 47,338 ratings — published 1990

by (shelved 7 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.86 — 472 ratings — published 2008

by (shelved 6 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.95 — 390 ratings — published

by (shelved 6 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.40 — 605 ratings — published

by (shelved 6 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.14 — 860 ratings — published 2001

by (shelved 6 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.85 — 236 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.92 — 227 ratings — published

by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.49 — 375 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.35 — 571 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.34 — 294 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.26 — 361 ratings — published

by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.27 — 298 ratings — published

by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.86 — 247 ratings — published

by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.48 — 139 ratings — published

by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.60 — 265 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.33 — 512 ratings — published 2016

by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.82 — 381 ratings — published 2016

by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,536 ratings — published 2015

by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,495 ratings — published 2006

by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.89 — 282 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 5 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.26 — 929 ratings — published 2006

by (shelved 4 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.41 — 15,040 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 4 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.92 — 278 ratings — published

by (shelved 4 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,908 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 4 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.81 — 271 ratings — published 2019

by (shelved 4 times as turtles)
avg rating 3.80 — 427 ratings — published 2016

by (shelved 4 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,732 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 4 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.16 — 109 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 4 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.01 — 147 ratings — published 1995

by (shelved 4 times as turtles)
avg rating 4.22 — 30,367 ratings — published 2002

“It’s turtles all the way down.”
― The Magician's Land
― The Magician's Land

“All stories are incomplete. Yet in order to construct a viable identity for myself and give meaning to my life, I don’t really need a complete story devoid of blind spots and internal contradictions. To give meaning to my life, a story needs to satisfy just two conditions: first, it must give me some role to play. A New Guinean tribesman is unlikely to believe in Zionism or in Serbian nationalism, because these stories don’t care at all about New Guinea and its people. Like movie stars, humans like only those scripts that reserve an important role for them.
Second, whereas a good story need not extend to infinity, it must extend beyond my horizons. The story provides me with an identity and gives meaning to my life by embedding me within something bigger than myself. But there is always a danger that I might start wondering what gives meaning to that ‘something bigger’. If the meaning of my life is to help the proletariat or the Polish nation, what exactly gives meaning to the proletariat or to the Polish nation? There is a story of a man who claimed that the world is kept in place by resting on the back of a huge elephant. When asked what the elephant stands on, he replied “that it stands on the back of a large turtle. And the turtle? On the back of an even bigger turtle. And that bigger turtle? The man snapped and said: ‘Don’t bother about it. From there onwards it’s turtles all the way down.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Second, whereas a good story need not extend to infinity, it must extend beyond my horizons. The story provides me with an identity and gives meaning to my life by embedding me within something bigger than myself. But there is always a danger that I might start wondering what gives meaning to that ‘something bigger’. If the meaning of my life is to help the proletariat or the Polish nation, what exactly gives meaning to the proletariat or to the Polish nation? There is a story of a man who claimed that the world is kept in place by resting on the back of a huge elephant. When asked what the elephant stands on, he replied “that it stands on the back of a large turtle. And the turtle? On the back of an even bigger turtle. And that bigger turtle? The man snapped and said: ‘Don’t bother about it. From there onwards it’s turtles all the way down.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century