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Brian is Currently Reading

Brian is currently reading

Baptism of Fire (The Witcher, #3)

by Andrzej Sapkowski

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May 06, 2026 06:16AM

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The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)

by Robert Jordan

bookshelves: fantasy, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in January 2013

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Brian said: " This is where the rot begins.

Okay, that's admittedly a bit overdramatic. Nonetheless, it's easy to see some of the trends that plague the rest of the series starting here. The long periods that admittedly do feature character interaction but have ver ...more "

progress:

(page 534 of 913)
"I knew there was a reason I didn't like Nynaeve. Not only is she whiny, pigheaded, and annoying, she's a libertarian." — Jan 21, 2013 05:40PM

Aug 27, 2024 11:28AM · see review

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「おいしい人生」を生きるための授業 (Japanese Edition)

by 出口治明

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Jan 19, 2021 03:23PM

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Brian’s Quotes

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

tags: dark-tower, horror

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“Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake

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“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

tags: cyberpunk, cyberspace, internet

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“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

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“If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”
― John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage

tags: democrats, liberal, politics

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