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Apatt made a comment on Cecily’s review of The Human Body (Visual Books) " 🤣 Great way to celebrate! 10 years ago GR had no idea what they've been blessed with, it has never been the same since. The birds and the bee, eh? I m ...more "
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Apatt and 55 other people liked Cecily's review of The Human Body (Visual Books): "A Decade! It’s May 2018, and I’ve been on GR for ten years. That’s a significant chunk of my adult life - in elapsed time, and also in the number of hours a week I spend here and in related activity (reading, note-taking, and then composing reviews..." Read more of this review »
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Apatt made a comment on his review of Deathworld 1 (Deathworld, #1) " Matt wrote: "Apatt wrote in his review: "Deathworld is actually the first volume of a trilogy, followed by the brilliantly titled Deathworld 2 and Dea ...more "
May 12, 2018 09:04AM · see review
Apatt rated a book it was amazing Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) by L.M. Montgomery	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
“Oh, I don’t mean just the tree; of course it’s lovely—yes, it’s radiantly lovely—it blooms as if it meant it—but I meant everything, the garden and the orchard and the brook and the woods, the whole big dear world. Don’t you feel as if you just love ...more
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Apatt rated a book it was amazing Deathworld 1 (Deathworld, #1) by Harry Harrison	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
“Everything here was deadly to man— from the smallest insect to the largest plant.” Deathworld is basically about a world that wants to kill you at every opportunity. Harry Harrison is a dab hand at old-school sci-fi adventures, not a lot of nuances ...more
May 10, 2018 08:01PM · 21 likes · like · see review
Apatt and 19 other people liked Rebecca Foster's review of To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death: "A worthy Wellcome Book Prize winner! [I was pleased that our shadow panel managed to predict the official winner (that hardly ever happens), and enjoyed attending the awards ceremony last night.] Rarely have I been so surprised to love a book. On..." Read more of this review »
May 09, 2018 11:05PM · see review
Apatt rated a book it was amazing Deathworld 1 (Deathworld, #1) by Harry Harrison	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
“Everything here was deadly to man— from the smallest insect to the largest plant.” Deathworld is basically about a world that wants to kill you at every opportunity. Harry Harrison is a dab hand at old-school sci-fi adventures, not a lot of nuances ...more
May 08, 2018 11:48PM · 21 likes · like · see review
Apatt made a comment on his review of Mansfield Park " John wrote: "Thanks, Appatt.. I enjoyed your review and you have put forward succinctly and with some humour a good argument about its quality and wor ...more "
May 08, 2018 07:15PM · see review
Apatt and 1 other person liked Lars Dradrach's review of Rainbows End: "A story of an acclaimed writer who after entering into old age and severe Alzheimers suddenly becomes rejuvenated and cured, but have to realize that the world has moved on in his absence. The story concentrates on three storylines, which graduall..." Read more of this review »
May 08, 2018 12:56AM · see review
Apatt made a comment on his review of Rainbows End " Lars wrote: "Brilliant review Apat, I enjoyed this one as well but agree with you on Vinge's writing style which makes it hard to connect to the chara ...more "
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“The Public School, he had long ago decided, was neurotic. It wanted a world in which nothing new came about, in which there were no surprises. And that was the world of the compulsive-obsessive neurotic; it was not a healthy world at all.”
― Philip K. Dick, Martian Time-Slip

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“No. I'm not the other anything. I'm me.
(Não. Eu não sou outro, nada. Eu sou eu.)”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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“Heroism is a label most people get for doing shit they’d never do if they were really thinking about it.”
― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate

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“I felt like a kid at Santa Claus's funeral.”
― David Gerrold, The Man Who Folded Himself

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“I would put it this way. There are objects for which we have found uses. We use them, but almost certainly not the way the visitors use them. I am positive that in the vast majority of cases we are hammering nails with microscopes.”
― Arkady Strugatsky

tags: science

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