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“Everything in contemporary society discourages interiority. More and more of our exchanges take place via circuits, and in their very nature those interactions are such as to keep us hovering in the virtual now, a place away from ourselves.”
― The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
― The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
“The books that matter to me...are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself.”
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“If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.”
― The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
― The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
“To read, when one does so of one's own free will, is to make a volitional statement, to cast a vote; it is to posit an elsewhere and to set off toward it.”
― The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
― The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
“I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished reading it. I recollect perfectly the feeling of reading it, the mood I occupied, but I am less sure about the narrative details. It is almost as if the book were, as Wittgenstein said of his propositions, a ladder to be climbed and then discarded after it has served its purpose.”
― The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
― The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
Wallace’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Wallace’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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764 books
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94 friends
530 books
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394 books
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25 friends
310 books
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72 friends
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