Alex Moore

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currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (779)
did-not-finish‎ (7)

to-read-nonfiction‎ (177)
mildly-interested‎ (162)
to-read-graphic-novels‎ (87)
to-read-classics‎ (36)

started-maybe-later‎ (25)
chess‎ (19)
started-chess‎ (18)
reread‎ (17)

want-to-reread‎ (15)

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Alex’s Quotes

“It’s the people who don’t worry—those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right—they’re the ones that cause the problems.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Redemption Ark

tags: philosophy-of-life, politics, social-commentary

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“We want to be open-minded enough to accept radical new ideas when they occasionally come along, but we don't want to be so open-minded that our brains fall out.”
― Michael Shermer

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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, willful-ignorance

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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You

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Alex’s Groups

/r/Fantasy Discussion Group — 6816 members — last activity Sep 28, 2026 01:12PM
A place for readers/contributors of Reddit's /r/Fantasy subreddit to discuss books from the genre and see others' book lists and recommendations. ...more

/r/Horror Discussion Group — 44 members — last activity Oct 29, 2019 12:33PM
A place for subscribers of reddit's /r/Horror subreddit (Dreaditors) to discuss and recommend horror books. ...more

r/books — 843 members — last activity Sep 11, 2026 06:24PM
Reddit meets Goodreads and has a love-child.

Reddit SF Book Club — 182 members — last activity Jan 09, 2015 09:47AM
A bookclub set up to discuss books about ideas. Please feel free to visit the Reddit SF Bookclub to open a discussion or post links pertaining to the ...more

Sci-fi and Heroic Fantasy — 9000 members — last activity Oct 16, 2026 06:28PM
A place for those who walk the green forests of Middle Earth, cross the pale sands of Arrakis, sail the blue waters of Earthsea, slip among the shadow ...more

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