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Johnny’s 2025 Year in Books
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Johnny Firic
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Born
Split, Croatia
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Influences
Carver
Chekhov
Borges
Chekhov
Borges
Member Since
October 2022
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/firic
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A fun, easy read, but hardly a masterpiece As simply planned and inoffensively executed as the title suggests, “Normal People” makes for a fine read: nothing here is offputting. There are plenty of interesting and enjoyable dynamics between western an ...more |
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A very fine memoir, just short of brilliance Though I regret many of the author’s choices and the book is by no means for everyone, I was gripped and deeply moved since the early chapters, and it only gets better. The characters are crisp and deliciou ...more |
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I persevered, but enjoyment remained beyond reach Bukowski has his fans, and I found his South of No North collection pleasantly shocking when I encountered it circa seventeen. The remembered appreciation of the stories kept me going through this pseu ...more |
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A very fine memoir, just short of brilliance Though I regret many of the author’s choices and the book is by no means for everyone, I was gripped and deeply moved since the early chapters, and it only gets better. The characters are crisp and deliciou ...more |
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I persevered, but enjoyment remained beyond reach Bukowski has his fans, and I found his South of No North collection pleasantly shocking when I encountered it circa seventeen. The remembered appreciation of the stories kept me going through this pseu ...more |
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I persevered, but enjoyment remained beyond reach Bukowski has his fans, and I found his South of No North collection pleasantly shocking when I encountered it circa seventeen. The remembered appreciation of the stories kept me going through this pseu ...more |
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An exhaustive historical study, somewhat dry for my taste Only if your interest in history is more than casual are you in for an enjoyable read. Seward is a popular historian, polishing his research credentials with sources, footnotes and appendices t ...more |
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Superb humor, less depth than there could have been About as funny as a truly interesting read can get, Galápagos is certain to entertain and inspire. My introduction to Vonnegut’s novels showed what his stories had led me to expect: scathing scrutiny ...more |
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“Evil can be transmuted into tragedy, loss into gain, temporality into deathlessness, by creating beauty.”
― The Oldest Word
― The Oldest Word
“Evil can be transmuted into tragedy, loss into gain, temporality into deathlessness, by creating beauty.”
― The Oldest Word
― The Oldest Word
“Can there be one best way to tend a garden, one best way to love, one truest cause for love? No. It equates free will with submission.”
― The Oldest Word
― The Oldest Word
“Does Ebui dream of a private grave? People in fancy dress eulogizing, laying down their offerings. Or does she dream past the frontier, a quicksilver cavern to adorn forever?”
― The Oldest Word
― The Oldest Word
