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Jerzy is Currently Reading

Jerzy is currently reading

Suma logiczna

by William of Ockham

bookshelves: philosophy, wielcy-filozofowie, 2026-to-read, currently-reading

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Jerzy said: " A bit ironic that out of all the books in this philosophy series so far, the longest book is by the guy who invented Occam's Razor... Perhaps the simplest explanation would be that I should skip this book :-) but we'll give it a go! If I was able to ...more "

Jan 01, 2026 07:22PM · see review

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This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters)

by Jay Foreman

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Jan 01, 2026 06:58PM

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The Lord of the Rings

by J.R.R. Tolkien

bookshelves: fantasy-scifi, add-notes, currently-reading

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read in February 2022

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Jerzy said: " Started re-reading recently for the first time in ages. [[When was this? Maybe fall of 2018 or 2019? Or was it summer 2015, right after I read the Hobbit? In any case, I only got through Fellowship last time.]]

Both here and in The Hobbit, I was struc ...more "

Oct 12, 2025 06:03AM · see review

Jerzy’s Quotes

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

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“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ”
― Seneca

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“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, scifi

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“Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

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“His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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