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"I can't take this much longer. 313 pages in and we are still doing character backstories. The actual story in this book is like 90 pages. It's like a D&D adventure where each of the 6 PCs turned in a 60 page completely unnecessary backstory. Six pages each would have sufficed, or heck, just reveal what's important to the story through dialogue not endless flashbacks." — Nov 17, 2025 11:56AM
"I can't take this much longer. 313 pages in and we are still doing character backstories. The actual story in this book is like 90 pages. It's like a D&D adventure where each of the 6 PCs turned in a 60 page completely unnecessary backstory. Six pages each would have sufficed, or heck, just reveal what's important to the story through dialogue not endless flashbacks." — Nov 17, 2025 11:56AM
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"The writing is good, but the story is dull and the protagonist is irritating beyond belief. There is too much polemic here disguised as fiction and not enough adventure story. Narnia comes off as the better work, despite or because of the fact it was aimed at children." — Feb 04, 2025 11:57AM
"The writing is good, but the story is dull and the protagonist is irritating beyond belief. There is too much polemic here disguised as fiction and not enough adventure story. Narnia comes off as the better work, despite or because of the fact it was aimed at children." — Feb 04, 2025 11:57AM
“God created a free universe. He could have created any kind of universe he wanted. But a universe without freedom would have been static and meaningless -- the taxpayer-funded-art-in-public-places universe.”
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“And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”
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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
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“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one - million - year - old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?”
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“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
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