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Nick’s 2025 Year in Books
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Nick De Meersman
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honestly? To see if I could do it :)
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De clan van de glimsteengrotten
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De clan zonder thuis
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Verhalendans: Een duistere reis door tijd en folklore
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The Book Of Brazzmatazz
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Its been a while since I have thought about this base of western canon, great expansive review!
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"I must admit that this second epic attributed to Homer, after the great enthusiasm I felt reading the Iliad last month, was a tiny bit of a disappointment. In the Iliad, I was deeply captivated by the ingenious composition, the dynamic narrative, the"
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Having had this book on my radar after an interview with the author in the guardian, after reading it I was left dissapointed and a tad frustrated with the book while still thinking I might fit his Otrovert concept. The core point according to Kamins ...more |
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Niek's review
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The Gift of Not Belonging: How Outsiders Thrive in a World of Joiners:
"One sentence review: A catchy idea, but without scientific grounding the otrovert feels more like a flattering horoscope than a real personality type.
Longer version: This book introduces a new personality type, the otrovert—an independent thinker who " Read more of this review » |
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The Gift of Not Belonging: How Outsiders Thrive in a World of Joiners:
"This book is a confused, self-congratulatory mess that never delivers on its central idea. When you begin by bungling the definitions of introversion and extroversion completely before introducing your half-formed concept of a third category, you're "
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Apple's review
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The Gift of Not Belonging: How Outsiders Thrive in a World of Joiners:
"This is a weirdly self-serving book and I wouldn’t recommend it. The author presents a new personality profile—the otrovert—but provides only his own anecdotal evidence to support his claims. He talks up all the positive attributes of otroverts (of w"
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| "I am Spartacus!" yeah that isn't in the book but it might as well have been. Spartacus by Howard Fast was a joy to read, good pacing, tragedy, anguish, hope, endurance and an unexpected but welcome non linear narrative style made this a page turner! ...more | |
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| abandoned after 150 pages; based on the format of the Canterbury tales Hyperion was a boring bare bones plot set in an inconsistent badly grounded scifi setting for which the stakes never really felt pressing, a mystery of the shrike which I could no ...more | |
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“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
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“Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.”
― The Complete Chronicles of Conan
― The Complete Chronicles of Conan
“Think and wonder, wonder and think.”
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“All sins are attempts to fill voids.”
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“Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.”
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