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Not the easiest novel to take in, even in this age of advanced computing, as each chapter seems to be a barely-connected episode compared with its three-chapter-back storyline. Maybe for those well versed in Gibson’s technobabble can piece together w
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"The prophetizing of a less humane age and the honouring of authors who might soon see their books banned, start to ramp up the closer each essay gets to the fateful date in 2016. Atwood’s hope that most of the modern world would wake up and do something to save what is left, whether it was a clever series of books, including her own greatest hits, makes it harder to see what might have been if key players listened." — Jan 27, 2026 09:14PM
"The prophetizing of a less humane age and the honouring of authors who might soon see their books banned, start to ramp up the closer each essay gets to the fateful date in 2016. Atwood’s hope that most of the modern world would wake up and do something to save what is left, whether it was a clever series of books, including her own greatest hits, makes it harder to see what might have been if key players listened." — Jan 27, 2026 09:14PM
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"Taking her sweet time bouncing between immanent distress and the previous decade leading up to the plague-ridden panic, O’Farrell lets her authorial concerns over Covid-19 colour each section. So plenty of time to trace Judith’s infection back to its Mediterranean origin, yet still little regard for “the husband”who got packed off to London. Has he even ever been properly named? So far It’s all about Agnes." — Feb 03, 2026 09:51PM
"Taking her sweet time bouncing between immanent distress and the previous decade leading up to the plague-ridden panic, O’Farrell lets her authorial concerns over Covid-19 colour each section. So plenty of time to trace Judith’s infection back to its Mediterranean origin, yet still little regard for “the husband”who got packed off to London. Has he even ever been properly named? So far It’s all about Agnes." — Feb 03, 2026 09:51PM
“Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.”
― Imperium
― Imperium
“When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novel teaches us to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think.”
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