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Stephen’s 2024 Year in Books
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Stephen Gallup
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What About the Boy?
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Let’s Not Let It Slip Away
Try this experiment some time. Let’s say the conversation going on around you concerns sports—college, pro, doesn’t matter. At a pause, casually mention, with a straight face, “Did you guys know they’re adding origami as one of the Olympic sports?”
Observe the reactions of those around you. It’s a ridiculous idea, of course. Folding paper is a pastime, a hobby, perhaps an art form, but not a sport.
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I'm likely to be a long time reading this tome. As far as I know, no other readrs have commented on the dreamlike, or even Kafkaesque, quality that some passages have, such as:
May I walk with you? Again, this is really a stupid thing to say.
You're r ...more "
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Einstein’s Dreams:
"This is a collection of 30 chapters dealing with the paradox of time through dreams. Albert Einstein was working in a patent office in 1905. Einstein's brain was working on relativity during that time before the theory of special relativity was publi"
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| As in Hemon's Nowhere Man, which I read quite recently, this book toys with the character's quasi-paranoid (or perhaps fatalistic) sensation of being observed, watched, or even spied upon. At one point he actually invites the reader to assume the rol ...more | |
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A lot of readers are very enthusiastic about this novel. It's about language, they say. All right. I'm very much a language guy. It did not quite work for me. Someone acknowledges that it takes a while to get to the story. That's for sure. I didn't pe ...more |
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"I see I'm going to be a dissenting voice here, but I'm afraid I found Embassytown to be weak, poorly-plotted and fundamentally unconvincing.
The book is concerned with a settlement on a planet at the edge of the known universe. The city is inhabited b" Read more of this review » |
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“I sensed then, and later formulated the conviction that wellness and potential are every child's birthright. And I'm quite sure that society is served when children have it.”
― What About the Boy?
― What About the Boy?
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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
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“I sensed then, and later formulated the conviction that wellness and potential are every child's birthright. And I'm quite sure that society is served when children have it.”
― What About the Boy?
― What About the Boy?
“The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.”
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“He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.”
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“I knew that we'd never get there. I knew this, in the same way I knew Tati would never be a teacher, and that Benny would be the end of me. Life's about confirming what we already know. About making sure. ”
― Miles from Nowhere
― Miles from Nowhere
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Thank you, Stephen. Obviously, I didn't dig far enough! :)
Hi Steve,Thanks for the invite. Good to see you here. Have a great weekend.
Ed
