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Dave J.
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"Bit dry so far, and Sabatini tends to overexplain his characters' actions, but promising setup otherwise." — Feb 28, 2026 09:16PM
"Bit dry so far, and Sabatini tends to overexplain his characters' actions, but promising setup otherwise." — Feb 28, 2026 09:16PM
Dave J.
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(page 143 of 250)
"Funnier than the first book :) No misses here when it comes to dark humor and longer, interwoven jokes. Some beautifully written parts, too." — Feb 27, 2026 03:13PM
"Funnier than the first book :) No misses here when it comes to dark humor and longer, interwoven jokes. Some beautifully written parts, too." — Feb 27, 2026 03:13PM
Dave J.
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progress:
(page 239 of 704)
"Damn, what a rip-roaring experience this has been. I have trouble putting it down, even. The hijinks and the intrigue is tops, and the pacing is some of the best I've come across in a long while. Really wish I'd read this years ago." — Feb 27, 2026 03:09PM
"Damn, what a rip-roaring experience this has been. I have trouble putting it down, even. The hijinks and the intrigue is tops, and the pacing is some of the best I've come across in a long while. Really wish I'd read this years ago." — Feb 27, 2026 03:09PM
“For fantasy is true, of course. It isn’t factual, but it’s true. Children know that. Adults know it too and that’s precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced into living. They are afraid of dragons because they are afraid of freedom.”
― The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
― The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: you still have chaos in yourselves.
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Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue. Where is the frenzy with which you should be inoculated. Behold. I give you the Ubermensch. He is this lightning. He is this frenzy.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue. Where is the frenzy with which you should be inoculated. Behold. I give you the Ubermensch. He is this lightning. He is this frenzy.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“The vastest things are those we may not learn.
We are not taught to die, nor to be born,
Nor how to burn
With love.
How pitiful is our enforced return
To those small things we are the masters of.”
― Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings
We are not taught to die, nor to be born,
Nor how to burn
With love.
How pitiful is our enforced return
To those small things we are the masters of.”
― Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings
“If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself - as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation - you may hate it or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality. You have, in fact, alienated yourself.”
― The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
― The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“Of course I didn't read James and sit down and say, Now I'll write a story about that “lost soul.” It seldom works that simply.
I sat down and started a story, just because I felt like it, with nothing but the word “Omelas” in mind. It came from a road sign: Salem (Oregon) backwards. Don't you read road signs backwards? POTS. WOLS nerdlihc. Ocsicnarf Nas... Salem equals schelomo equals salaam equals Peace. Melas. O melas. Omelas. Homme helas.
“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?”
― The Wind's Twelve Quarters
I sat down and started a story, just because I felt like it, with nothing but the word “Omelas” in mind. It came from a road sign: Salem (Oregon) backwards. Don't you read road signs backwards? POTS. WOLS nerdlihc. Ocsicnarf Nas... Salem equals schelomo equals salaam equals Peace. Melas. O melas. Omelas. Homme helas.
“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?”
― The Wind's Twelve Quarters
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A book group devoted to reading and discussing novellas (one a month). Definition of NOVELLA 1) a story with a compact and pointed plot 2) a work of ...more
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