Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
to-read
(244)
currently-reading (4)
read (918)
did-not-finish (2)
fantasy (192)
scifi (152)
comic (130)
history (52)
science (43)
music (37)
biology (30)
africa (28)
currently-reading (4)
read (918)
did-not-finish (2)
fantasy (192)
scifi (152)
comic (130)
history (52)
science (43)
music (37)
biology (30)
africa (28)
dystopian
(27)
cs (25)
biography (21)
asia (20)
horror (20)
philosophy (20)
europe (19)
humor (19)
historical-fiction (17)
dnf (16)
viz (16)
cogsci (15)
cs (25)
biography (21)
asia (20)
horror (20)
philosophy (20)
europe (19)
humor (19)
historical-fiction (17)
dnf (16)
viz (16)
cogsci (15)
The media landscape of today is oriented toward what is novel and public—the latest political controversy, the new celebrity scandal, or the viral meme of the day. Resurrecting the commonplace book allows us to stem the tide, shifting our
...more
“But for a society buit on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.”
― The Stone Sky
― The Stone Sky
“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“Quantum mechanics extends this relativity in a radical way: all variable aspects of an object exist only in relation to other objects. It is only in interactions that nature draws the world.”
― Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
― Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
“Tell them they can be great someday, like us. Tell them they belong among us, no matter how we treat them. Tell them they must earn the respect which everyone else receives by default. Tell them there is a standard for acceptance; that standard is simply perfection. Kill those who scoff at those contradictions, and tell the rest that the dead deserved annihilation for their weakness and doubt. Then they'll break themselves trying for what they'll never achieve”
― The Fifth Season
― The Fifth Season
“Where those who hold the liberal conception of freedom would say we are free because we are not subject to deliberate interference by other humans, Marx says we are not free because we do not control our own society. Economic relations between human beings determine not only our wages and our prospects of finding work, but also our politics, our religion, and our ideas. These economic relations force us into a situation in which we compete with each other instead of co-operating for the good of all. These conditions nullify technical advances in the use of our resources.”
― Marx: A Very Short Introduction
― Marx: A Very Short Introduction
The book you like most
— 50770 members
— last activity 2 hours, 57 min ago
This group (ranked in the TOP 100 most popular groups on Goodreads) is dedicated to the "Vision and Story" project. Additionally, the group THE BOOK ...more
A’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at A’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,704 books
|
53 friends
281 books
|
25 friends
509 books
|
33 friends
3,256 books
|
36 friends
409 books
|
93 friends
93 books
|
74 friends
67 books
|
25 friends
319 books
|
73 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Book Club, Classics, Ebooks, Fiction, History, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Science, and Self help
Polls voted on by A
Lists liked by A