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“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?”
― The Prophet
― The Prophet
“Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.”
― Society of the Spectacle
― Society of the Spectacle
“When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.”
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Classics and the Western Canon
— 4946 members
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This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more
/lit/ (2025 revival edition)
— 1283 members
— last activity Jan 25, 2026 06:19PM
No fun allowed. Reading top 100 books from the /lit/ chart.
Irish Readers
— 705 members
— last activity Jan 25, 2026 09:30PM
A group for the Irish members of Goodreads! Every month we nominate and vote for a book which we read and discuss the following month. If you are ju ...more
Patrick’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Patrick’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,104 books
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187 friends
335 books
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23 friends
393 books
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112 friends
166 books
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107 friends
119 books
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45 friends
180 books
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15 friends
772 books
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40 friends
3 books
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7 friends
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