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Man, I really wanted to go higher but I don’t think I can in this totally arbitrary scale/app/whatever. I adore this series and the characters - and the audiobooks are a masterpiece of performance art - but this book is overstuffed. Lotta repeated la
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“A child can accept all kinds of weird-looking creatures and bizarre occurrences in a story because the child understands that stories have different rules that allow for pretty much anything to happen. Adults, on the other hand, struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it’s not real.”
― Supergods
― Supergods
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