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“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

tags: books, reading

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“All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.”
― E.B. White

tags: writing

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“If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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“When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.”
― William H. Gass

tags: books, difficult-books, reading-books

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“Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left within the reach of anyone in Power,- who need but touch her, and all her Credit is in the instant vanish'd, as if it had never been. She needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius, Masters of Disguise to provide her the Costume, Toilette, and Bearing, and Speech nimble enough to keep her beyond the Desires, or even the Curiosity, of Government.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

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Johnnies — 90 members — last activity Jul 05, 2017 11:39AM
Open to anyone interested in reading and discussing the Great Books, this group was created especially for students, alumni and friends of St. John's ...more

The Corner Table — 5 members — last activity Jan 19, 2012 07:47PM
Either you know what this is or you don't need to know. ...more

Read a book from each country — 984 members — last activity Oct 30, 2025 05:18PM
I thought this would be a good place to collect recommendations for books from various countries. I don't have a formal goal to read a book from each ...more

"Against the Day", Thomas Pynchon - 2015 / 2016 — 86 members — last activity Mar 20, 2019 12:26AM
I know 2 or 3 friends who are planning to read Pynchon's "Against the Day" come this December or January 2016. No schedule has been set yet and we don ...more