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Igor’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Igor’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Igor Shults’s Followers (11)
97 books
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383 books
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312 books
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142 books
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Igor Shults
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The Anhedonic Adaptation
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2019
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3 editions
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Constellations
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So What Are You?
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Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
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| Informative, empowering, and entertaining. I was worried about the "what to do about it" part as those sections in books can often be hollow and overly optimistic. But Doctorow is not delusional, and his message does not involve "just email your sena ...more | |
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“What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?"
"Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
"Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
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“Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.”
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
“Ilse, a childhood friend of mine, once found a raspberry in the concentration camp and carried it in her pocket all day to present to me that night on a leaf. Imagine a world in which your entire possession is one raspberry and you give it to your friend.”
― All But My Life
― All But My Life
