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Cicero

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Cleopatra

by Saara El-Arifi (Goodreads Author)

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Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)

by Pierce Brown (Goodreads Author)

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read in July 2020

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Cicero said: " Reread this and enjoyed it just as much as the first time. On to book 2.

Finished this last week but held off on giving a review because I just could not decide between a rating of 4 or a 5. Originally, I had started it long ago when my son first reco ...more "

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"Why reread a book? Sometimes one feels the need to just curl up somewhere and read a book that is familiar yet exciting all at the same time. I can't help but compare the writing to this novel to some of the newer books that are out. Fantastic setting, heart-rending events, and complex yet competent paragraph and sentence structure." — Mar 06, 2026 04:00AM

Oct 10, 2023 03:52AM · see review

Cicero’s Quotes

“AS I PLAN MY QUEST,” Quichotte said, drinking from a can of ginger ale, “I ponder the contemporary period as well as the classical. And by the contemporary I mean, of course, The Bachelorette.”
― Salman Rushdie, Quichotte

tags: contemporary

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“People only see the present through the lenses of their personal pasts.”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

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“Denial is an irrational dismissal of danger. Phobia is an irrational fear of one.”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

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