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“We’re beings toward death, we’re featherless, two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms. That's us.”
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Around the World in 80 Books
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Reading takes you places. Where in the world will your next book take you? If you love world literature, translated works, travel writing, or explorin ...more
19th Century Adventure Classics
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— last activity May 09, 2021 04:50PM
A nerdy group for discussing old school classic adventure writers like Jules Verne, Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, Anthony Hope, etc.
BiZarRo
— 575 members
— last activity Jan 17, 2026 10:59PM
Bizarro fiction is a contemporary literary genre, which often uses elements of absurdism, satire, and the grotesque, along with pop-surrealism and gen ...more
Bizarro Fiction
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— last activity Aug 31, 2026 05:15AM
This is a group devoted to lovers of bizarro fiction. Whether you write it or read it, you are welcome here. Come join us in our love of the weird and ...more
Dirk’s 2025 Year in Books
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