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"It’s been like this since the start of the series but now on book 4 (the finale) it’s becoming too much to bear. The plot is very interesting. It’s the plot that keeps me going. But the writing! The action scenes. They are so implausible. It’s like watching a movie with the cheesiest most unrealistic special effects. You have to suspend disbelief and push forward, but as it goes on, it’s getting hard to do." — Feb 28, 2026 10:27AM
"It’s been like this since the start of the series but now on book 4 (the finale) it’s becoming too much to bear. The plot is very interesting. It’s the plot that keeps me going. But the writing! The action scenes. They are so implausible. It’s like watching a movie with the cheesiest most unrealistic special effects. You have to suspend disbelief and push forward, but as it goes on, it’s getting hard to do." — Feb 28, 2026 10:27AM
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“He had also gone through a bad divorce, become estranged from his only daughter and been diagnosed with skin cancer, but he insisted that all of that, however painful, was secondary to the sudden realization that it was mathematics—not nuclear weapons, computers, biological warfare or our climate Armageddon—which was changing our world to the point where, in a couple of decades at most, we would simply not be able to grasp what being human really meant.”
― When We Cease to Understand the World
― When We Cease to Understand the World
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“When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them. But, as the demonstration shows, sincere, clearheaded people see things differently, each looking through the unique lens of experience.”
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― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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