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Yet the economists in Moscow had no reliable index of what was going on in the vast empire they notionally maintained; the false accounting was so endemic that at one point the KGB resorted to turning the cameras of its spy satellites onto
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“At the end of an evening, her women friends would hug her, or a friend’s husband might slip his arm around her waist to kiss her, just a little too suggestively, and the coldness in her would respond, I don’t give a damn if I ever see any of you again.”
― The Best American Short Stories 2014
― The Best American Short Stories 2014
“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“The sound of the wind against the sides of the house is exactly like the sound of wolf fur against cardboard.”
― The Best American Short Stories 2014
― The Best American Short Stories 2014
“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
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“(On one estimate, the adult human brain stores about one billion bits—a couple of orders of magnitude less than a low-end smartphone.”
― Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
― Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Ask Karen Russell
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— last activity Nov 01, 2011 02:57PM
Join innovative author Karen Russell for a discussion of her work in celebration of the paperback release of her novel Swamplandia. This is a chance t ...more
Goodreads Company Book Club
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— last activity Dec 05, 2016 04:45PM
Book club for Goodreads employees and alumni. We're a reading machine! In addition to this group, we have some other interest-specific reading groups ...more
Think Big Book Club
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— last activity Apr 19, 2017 05:26PM
A book club for Goodreads employees who want to Think Big. We'll read and discuss one book (every other month) around how others have thought big abou ...more
F-Word Book Group!
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— last activity Jan 03, 2020 12:56PM
Goodreads company feminist book group! What's not to love? ...more
Goodreads Dev
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— last activity Apr 03, 2019 03:06PM
Devs at Goodreads read tech books and learn things together
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