340 ratings (3.82 avg)
8 reviews

Alec Swartz

Add friend

https://www.goodreads.com/aswartz

Alec’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (410)
currently-reading‎ (1)

read‎ (348)
favorites‎ (22)

unfinished‎ (9)

Stats | More…

Alec is Currently Reading

Alec Swartz is currently reading

The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A. #1)

by John Dos Passos

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

progress:

(page 200 of 325)
— Nov 04, 2025 06:56AM

Oct 27, 2025 02:07PM

Alec’s Quotes

“The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.”
― David Sedaris, Naked

tags: cyclops, memoir, naked, sedaris

6 likes

“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

717 likes

“Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.”
― Jacques Lacan

tags: lovers

214 likes

“I pray for peace—for motionlessness—for the feeling of myself, as of some plant, absorbing life without seeking it, and existing without individual sensation”
― Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

4 likes

“As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

tags: absurdism, absurdist-fiction

36 likes

More of Alec’s quotes…

recent posts
Alec’s Groups

The History Book Club — 25624 members — last activity Nov 15, 2025 02:24PM
"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more

Reading the Classics — 4057 members — last activity May 10, 2025 07:28AM
This is a group for people who want to read the classics and discuss them as a group. Each month we will choose as a group a book to read. Everyone is ...more

Political Philosophy and Ethics — 6084 members — last activity 1 hour, 25 min ago
Study and discussion of the important questions of ethical and political philosophy from Confucius and Socrates to the present. Rules (see also the ...more

Classical (Laissez-Faire) Liberalism — 807 members — last activity Aug 24, 2025 10:15AM
Including within it neo-liberalism, libertarianism, objectivism, anarcho-capitalism, minarchism, and American conservatism, this classical or "market" ...more

Dostoyevsky's Lair: Russian Literature — 438 members — last activity Apr 01, 2023 02:23PM
This group explores Russian literature with an emphasis on 19th/20th century authors.

More of Alec’s groups…