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"I read two novels and wanted to use goodreads again but I fell back into the world of webnovels. This one in particular is pretty amazing and the english edition of vol. 1 was just released. I'm currently ~50% through the fan translation of the whole series." — Dec 13, 2023 06:08PM
"I read two novels and wanted to use goodreads again but I fell back into the world of webnovels. This one in particular is pretty amazing and the english edition of vol. 1 was just released. I'm currently ~50% through the fan translation of the whole series." — Dec 13, 2023 06:08PM
“He wondered vaguely how many others like here there might be in the younger generation, people who had grown up in the world of the Revolution, knowing nothing else, accepting the Party as something unalterable, like the sky, not rebelling against its authority but simply evading it, as a rabbit dodges a dog.”
― 1984
― 1984
“One of the many unintended consequences of the Anthropocene has been the pruning of our own family tree. Having cut down our sister species—the Neanderthals and the Denisovans—many generations ago, we’re now working on our first and second cousins. By the time we’re done, it’s quite possible that there will be among the great apes not a single representative left, except, that is, for us.”
― The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
― The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.”
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“The book fascinated him, or more exactly it reassured him. In a sense it told him nothing that was new, but that was part of the attraction. It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.”
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“And if there were four extinct species, Cuvier declared, there must be others. The proposal was a daring one to make given the available evidence. On the basis of a few scattered bones, Cuvier had conceived of a whole new way of looking at life. Species died out. This was not an isolated but a widespread phenomenon. “All these facts, consistent among themselves, and not opposed by any report, seem to me to prove the existence of a world previous to ours,” Cuvier said. “But what was this primitive earth? And what revolution was able to wipe it out?”
― The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
― The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
2022 ONTD Reading Challenge
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Welcome to the 2022 ONTD Reading Challenge! This year, inspired by the recent ONTD renaissance, we are going all-in with books inspired by classic O ...more
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