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Barry Welsh
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. [laughter] But since the Freedom of Information Act, I’m afraid to say things like that. – Henry Kissinger, Memorandum of Conversation, March 10, 1975
“Though the 20th century saw horrific genocides inspired by Nazi pseudoscience about genetics and race, it also saw horrific genocides inspired by Marxist pseudoscience about the malleability of human nature. The real threat to humanity comes from totalizing ideologies and the denial of human rights, rather than a curiosity about nature and nurture.”
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“Though it wasn’t a very nice method, whenever he felt like he didn’t understand his wife’s family, he simply told himself he was dealing with foreigners.”
― The Hole
― The Hole
“The language of women accustomed to violence was silence and lies.”
― Broken Summer
― Broken Summer
“Indeed, it is the soul [itself ] that is the chief character in Russian fiction.”
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“What he’d really returned to was this noisy, crowded, queuing, waiting, leering world. The world where, as his doctor explained, the only way to survive was through sheer force of will.”
― The Hole
― The Hole
The RAS Korean Literature Club
— 64 members
— last activity 15 hours, 55 min ago
The R.A.S. Korean Literature Club is an English-language, in-person, Korean-literature-discussion group in Seoul. ※※※ NEXT MEETING: Thursday, Feb. 12 ...more
Seoul Book Club Hosted by Barry Welsh
— 347 members
— last activity Jan 07, 2026 11:12AM
This is a book club for discussing Korea-related books. Everyone is welcome.
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
— 26835 members
— last activity 11 hours, 13 min ago
An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more
Read Scotland 2018
— 91 members
— last activity Jan 01, 2019 07:52PM
Books written by Scots, set in Scotland or about Scotland. Set a goal for your Scotland Reading Challenge and/or join the discussion as we read Scotti ...more
The book you like most
— 48556 members
— last activity 3 hours, 16 min ago
This group (ranked in the TOP 100 most popular groups on Goodreads) is dedicated to the "Vision and Story" project. Additionally, the group THE BOOK ...more
Barry’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Barry’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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