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"he somehow tells the story in a way designed to be uninteresting to me…
started as a small book illustrating an economic thesis, he kept adding to it year after year. so each chapter is not presented as an interesting story, but as an illustration of his thesis (whatever it was; i don’t remember)." — 12 hours, 22 min ago
"he somehow tells the story in a way designed to be uninteresting to me…
started as a small book illustrating an economic thesis, he kept adding to it year after year. so each chapter is not presented as an interesting story, but as an illustration of his thesis (whatever it was; i don’t remember)." — 12 hours, 22 min ago
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"heavy with name-dropping and self-importance, it seemed to me. i didn’t get far enough in to experience the thrilling story of putting together a crack team to do the impossible…" — 12 hours, 24 min ago
"heavy with name-dropping and self-importance, it seemed to me. i didn’t get far enough in to experience the thrilling story of putting together a crack team to do the impossible…" — 12 hours, 24 min ago
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"Around 1610. Compilation of short tales of swindlers. Sealed silver, brocade cloth, bribing officials or their clerks … bribing test proctors… poison, boats, …
Some very weird. Marry guy to get him beat up by cloth seller, to extract silver from cloth seller. Give him bruises to cover murder, run off with silver…
Eunuch who eats children…
Kind of fun, but take them one at a time, otherwise monotonous." — 12 hours, 47 min ago
"Around 1610. Compilation of short tales of swindlers. Sealed silver, brocade cloth, bribing officials or their clerks … bribing test proctors… poison, boats, …
Some very weird. Marry guy to get him beat up by cloth seller, to extract silver from cloth seller. Give him bruises to cover murder, run off with silver…
Eunuch who eats children…
Kind of fun, but take them one at a time, otherwise monotonous." — 12 hours, 47 min ago
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