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Zaman Ali
“Each thinking mind is a political mind.”
Zaman Ali, HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good

Italo Calvino
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

Cormac McCarthy
“Peering down into the water where the morning sun fashioned wheels of light, coronets fanwise in which lay trapped each twig, each grain of sediment, long flakes and blades of light in the dusty water sliding away like optic strobes where motes sifted and spun.”
Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

Gilles Deleuze
“Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.”
Gilles Deleuze

Roberto Bolaño
“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

14666 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
62209 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
2779 Read a book from each country — 988 members — last activity Jan 22, 2026 07:54PM
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
176380 "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
1156864 Gays of Goodreads — 3397 members — last activity 1 hour, 31 min ago
everyone welcome! let's all find cute, bookish (boy)friends. ...more
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