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Chris is Currently Reading

Chris is currently reading

The Racketeer

by John Grisham (Goodreads Author)

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May 05, 2026 12:22PM

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The Boys, Volume 4: We Gotta Go Now

by Garth Ennis

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May 04, 2026 10:39AM

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Cinema Speculation

by Quentin Tarantino

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Chris’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Night of the Long Knives

The Night of the Long Knives by Fritz Leiber

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That sort of thinking’s been going on a long time. Cave man picks up a rock and right away asks himself, ‘Who can I brain with this?’ Doesn’t occur to him for several hundred thousand years to use it to start building a hospital.”

Chris’s Quotes

“The trumpets of war shall sound at his footsteps, the ravens feed at his voice, and he shall wear a crown of swords.”
― Robert Jordan, A Crown of Swords

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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting

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“Recalling his first impression of Hitler, Hanfstaengl wrote, "Hitler looked like a suburban hairdresser on his day off.”
― Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

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“You can’t kill the thing under the bed. You can only keep it outside the covers.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

tags: thing-under-the-bed

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“When they [breasts] are huge, you become very self-conscious...I've learned something though, through my years of pondering and pontificating, and that is: men love them, and I love that.”
― Drew Barrymore

tags: breasts, men, pondering

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