Johnny Lucas

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


Small Things Like...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Gödel, Escher, Ba...
Rate this book
Clear rating

Johnny Lucas Johnny Lucas said: " I'm having to reread every page at least once and constantly go back to look up what words mean and bloody hell there's just so many god damn symbols but there's no way I'm going to let this beautiful medley of maths and music and art and logic and p ...more "

 
Hired: Six Months...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
See all 12 books that Johnny is reading…
Book cover for Social Mobility: And Its Enemies (Pelican Books)
On the other hand in the United States overall (where the American dream was born of course), only 7.5 per cent of people make it from the bottom to the top of society. Given the common characteristics of the US and Britain, the danger for ...more
Loading...
David Foster Wallace
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

Umberto Eco
“The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.”
Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality

Michael Ondaatje
“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.

I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.”
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

Ludwig Wittgenstein
“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde

year in books
Will Pa...
165 books | 55 friends

Merit
751 books | 70 friends

Daria
481 books | 76 friends

Anna
545 books | 56 friends

Joseph ...
468 books | 60 friends

Mingfei Li
6 books | 44 friends

Melkon ...
153 books | 82 friends

Flynn Howl
78 books | 15 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Johnny

Lists liked by Johnny