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8,105 books
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19,873 voters
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(294)
currently-reading (47)
read (657)
fiction (160)
comics (153)
history (95)
politics (90)
music (78)
music-rock (55)
autobiography-and-diaries (52)
politics-british (50)
politics-american (37)
currently-reading (47)
read (657)
fiction (160)
comics (153)
history (95)
politics (90)
music (78)
music-rock (55)
autobiography-and-diaries (52)
politics-british (50)
politics-american (37)
art-and-architecture
(31)
33-1-3 (29)
religion (29)
biography (26)
comedy (19)
film (19)
religion-catholic (16)
us-civil-war (14)
music-jazz (13)
theatre (13)
poetry (12)
tv (12)
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“A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.”
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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
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“When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equalizer.”
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“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
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Curmudgeon’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Curmudgeon’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
873 books
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74 friends
2,578 books
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117 friends
1,502 books
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219 friends
340 books
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65 friends
1,017 books
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697 friends
132 books
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199 friends
267 books
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118 friends
1,050 books
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208 friends
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Art, Biography, Classics, Fiction, Graphic novels, History, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, and Science
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