Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book

Brett

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Brett.


Subversives: The ...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Origin
Brett is currently reading
by Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Breakfast of Cham...
Brett is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
See all 11 books that Brett is reading…
Loading...
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
Kurt Vonnegut

“After September 11, some critics even tried to lump the antiglobalization protesters in with the terrorists, casting them as irresponsible destabilizers of the world order. But the protesters are the children of McWorld, and their objections are not Jihadic but merely democratic. Their grievances concern not world order but world disorder, and if the young demonstrators are a little foolish in their politics, a little naive in their analysis, and a little short on viable solutions, they understand with a sophistication their leaderes apparently lack that globalization's current architecture breeds anarchy, nihilism, and violence.”
Benjamin R. Barber, Jihad vs. McWorld

Dave Barry
“Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota.”
Dave Barry, Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

Tom Stoppard
“I got dizzy," he explained.
I should think you did. What were you doing?'
Nothing," said Moon. "I was trying to face one way or the other and I got confused and fell over."
Let that be my epitaph.”
Tom Stoppard, Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon

Aldous Huxley
“I would rather,' he said, 'give a healthy boy or a healthy girl a phial of prussic acid than this novel.' (And here let me pause to make Mr. Douglas a sporting offer. I will provide a healthy boy, a phial of prussic acid, and a copy of The Well of Loneliness, and if he keeps his word and gives the boy the prussic acid I undertake to pay all expenses of his defense at the ensuing murder trial and to erect a monument to his memory after he has been hanged.)”
Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. I: 1920-1925

year in books
Hilary
843 books | 18 friends

Laura
3,239 books | 90 friends

Kayden ...
64 books | 2 friends

Erin Healy
441 books | 136 friends

Dani
1,421 books | 105 friends

Berk Eh...
230 books | 119 friends

Carmen
1,584 books | 197 friends

Penni
635 books | 25 friends

More friends…


Polls voted on by Brett

Lists liked by Brett