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I loved the premise and I was excited about the book, however I did not enjoy the narrative style at all. Did not pass the midpoint
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When you are faced with the possibility of an early death, it makes you realise that there are lots of things you want to do before your life is over.
“Unlike traditional retailers, Amazon returned few unsold books, often less than 5 percent. The big book chains regularly returned 40 percent of all the books they acquired from publishers, for full refunds,”
― The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
― The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
“In a New York where people are reconceived as consumers, not citizens, it is most profitable to keep everyone moving and disconnected. This is what the hyper-globalized, ultracompetitive city looks and feels like. I saw the perfect word for it scrawled on a wall in the East Village: blandalism. Sleepwalking inside digital bubbles, the iZombies hustle through the city without looking. And you can’t really have compassion for a thing—or a person—without beholding it.”
― Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul
― Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul
Daniel Blazquez’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Daniel Blazquez’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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