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“I have raged at the wall growing between myself and others. I expect intuitive, miraculous understanding, or else I’m disillusioned and don’t want to struggle to make things clear.”
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“Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.”
― Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
― Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
“The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence, but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary subordinate clauses,”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
“Some of the things you say are sublime and monstrous at once.”
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“So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he’d been invited, but at an address he couldn’t actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn’t him.”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
Chris’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Chris’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
3,680 books
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4,665 friends
462 books
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26 friends
273 books
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20 friends
535 books
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53 friends
4 books
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65 friends
1 book
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146 friends
55 books
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33 friends
1 book
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42 friends
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Favorite Genres
Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Graphic novels, Mystery, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, and Thriller
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