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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Philosophy

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C. S. Hand is a threadbare graduate student fond of British and German Romanticism and moonlit perambulations through soft European countrysides.

He believes that great fantasy books are the same thing as great literature. ...more

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	The Night People: A Young Adult Sci Fi Coming-of-Age Novel (Sam and Jade's Alien Adventures Book 1) 4.62 avg rating — 39 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Song of Earth: A Young Adult Sci Fi Coming-of-Age Novel (Sam and Jade's Alien Adventures Book 2) 4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Splatterism: The Tragic Recollections of A Minotaur Assailant by Christian Winter, C.S. Hand (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Her Revolution (Her Golden City Book I) by Caroline Hecate Cavendish, C.S. Hand (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 2.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Splatterism: The Disquieting Recollections of a Minotaur Assailaint. An Upbuilding Edifying Discourse (Splatterism, #2) by Christian Winter, C.S. Hand (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 2.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Whether you are looking for some audiobooks to listen to while you do chores, your daily commute, or that epic road trip you’ve always wanted to take, and lets be honest, to help you fall asleep, the fantasy genre is always an excellent way to fill the hours (and these audiobook are long).

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“We do not despise all those with vices, but we do despise all those without a single virtue.”
― Francois La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

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“Your educators can only be your liberators.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations

tags: nietzsche, philosophy, schopenhauer-as-educator

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“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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“There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life

tags: pessimism, philosophy, schopenhauer

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“Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.”
― Giacomo Leopardi

tags: ageing, aging, death

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