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Barry Welsh
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The west had indeed empowered radical Muslims to the point that not only were Islamists comfortable expressing their hate through megaphones, the scores of useful idiots who empowered them were right there with them declaring their support
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“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
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“There are only two ways to be a god: through creation or murder.”
― I Have The Right To Destroy Myself
― I Have The Right To Destroy Myself
“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
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“Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.”
― I Have The Right To Destroy Myself
― I Have The Right To Destroy Myself
Seoul Book Club Hosted by Barry Welsh
— 364 members
— last activity Mar 14, 2026 02:17PM
This is a book club for discussing Korea-related books. Everyone is welcome.
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
— 26976 members
— last activity 20 hours, 2 min ago
An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more
Read Scotland 2018
— 91 members
— last activity Jan 01, 2019 07:52PM
Books written by Scots, set in Scotland or about Scotland. Set a goal for your Scotland Reading Challenge and/or join the discussion as we read Scotti ...more
The book you like most
— 50227 members
— last activity 2 hours, 42 min ago
This group (ranked in the TOP 100 most popular groups on Goodreads) is dedicated to the "Vision and Story" project. Additionally, the group THE BOOK ...more
Barry’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Barry’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Manga, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
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