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Whathave welostthatdrivesusso?
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| Much interesting lore, and a fascinating journeys taken by a lone wolf walking from Slovenia, up across Austria, and over the Alps down to Italy and the forest around Verona. The wolf, with the unpronounceable name of Slavc traveled over a thousand m ...more | |
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| I've read other books with animal narrators, they eventually seem a little too cute. The most successful were White Fang and The Call of the Wild. I don't think you can get better than those. Etna is worthy, therefore 4 stars, but Etna - the dog and ...more | |
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| The French Revolution as reimagined in Montreal, Canada, in the late 1800's enduring an economic/political changes that make it worth for revolution. The primary cast is of young women who bear variations on the names of the original revolutionaries ...more | |
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| All the previous Earths had been ruined. Not completely inhospitable, but nearly so; not completely depopulated, but nearly so; not totally desert-ified, but nearly so. Beyond dystopia. Dylan, the daughter of a researcher grows up underwater behind 8 ...more | |
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| Highly intelligent and interesting speculative fiction about a Europe that is being run by a Prime Minister with a brain that has been improved and re-set numerous times, each with new lessons, especially as to the exercise of power. When an insurgen ...more | |
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| OK, a little far-fetched as an 82 year old highly successful investment banker and Iraq War vet hits bottom after losing his son to yet another US war, and his wife in a terrorist attack in Williamsburg, and goes on to superhuman vengeance and enligh ...more | |
“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”
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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
“They use everything about the hog except the squeal.”
― The Jungle
― The Jungle
“A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief.”
― Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation
― Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation
“Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.”
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