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Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Michael’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Michael Garner
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November 2017
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My Life as a CIA Spy: I Was Never a CIA Spy
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Faith's review
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Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy:
"This is a really terrifying book. It clarifies how the huge amount of funding from conservative billionaires (and decades of planning) has enabled a coalition of haters to gain power in the United States and elsewhere. They are united by their shared"
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"This book answers so many of those burning questions you've always wanted to ask someone in the CIA. I would have devoured it in one sitting if not for the need to sleep, though, fair warning, reading it in the middle of the night might make you feel"
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"Garner's voice is compelling and funny as he leads you through the twists and turns of his life in the CIA. He hits a balance of light-heartedness and darkness that leaves you questioning what is real or not. I appreciated him tackling his past from "
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“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― A Short History of Progress
― A Short History of Progress
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
― A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals.”
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“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
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