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Nick is Currently Reading

Nick is currently reading

The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses

by Jesse Schell

bookshelves: game-design, non-fiction, currently-reading

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Dec 07, 2024 10:12PM

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Three Kingdoms (4-Volume Boxed Set)

by Luo Guanzhong

bookshelves: currently-reading, classics

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"Finished the first volume. It's a difficult read, but fascinating. It is easy to see why it has been likened to the Illiad in the past, though it is many times broader in scope and far more complex." — Jan 25, 2013 10:21PM

Mar 31, 2020 07:34PM

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Understanding Earth

by John P. Grotzinger

bookshelves: currently-reading, science, non-fiction

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Apr 14, 2017 08:02AM

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Nick’s Quotes

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: humour

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“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
― William Gibson

tags: future, planning

1080 likes

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

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“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor

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“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, scifi

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