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Barry Welsh
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Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new
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“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
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“You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“There are only two ways to be a god: through creation or murder.”
― I Have The Right To Destroy Myself
― I Have The Right To Destroy Myself
“A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.”
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Seoul Book Club Hosted by Barry Welsh
— 364 members
— last activity Jul 14, 2026 12:46PM
This is a book club for discussing Korea-related books. Everyone is welcome.
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
— 27009 members
— last activity Jul 17, 2026 11:52AM
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
— 50651 members
— last activity 4 hours, 14 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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Favorite Genres
Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Manga, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
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