Sign in with Facebook
to-read
(2078)
currently-reading (108)
read (1372)
did-not-finish (0)
owned-not-read (168)
2026 (125)
reading-in-2022 (97)
currently-reading (108)
read (1372)
did-not-finish (0)
owned-not-read (168)
2026 (125)
reading-in-2022 (97)
reading-in-2019
(89)
thesis (77)
reading-in-2023 (75)
favourite-fiction (60)
2025 (47)
finish-first (30)
favourite-nonfiction (26)
thesis (77)
reading-in-2023 (75)
favourite-fiction (60)
2025 (47)
finish-first (30)
favourite-nonfiction (26)
“Listen," Hilarius said after awhile, "have I seemed to you a good enough Freudian? Have I ever deviated seriously?"
"You made faces now and then," said Oedipa, "but that’s minor.”
― The Crying of Lot 49
"You made faces now and then," said Oedipa, "but that’s minor.”
― The Crying of Lot 49
“I am driven to literary examples because you, the reader, and I do not live in the same neighbourhood; if we did, there would unfortunately be no difficulty about replacing them with examples from real life.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“I say to myself—sometimes, Clov, you must learn to suffer better than that if you want them to weary of punishing you—one day. I say to myself—sometimes, Clov, you must be better than that if you want them to let you go—one day. But I feel too old, and too far, to form new habits. Good, it'll never end, I'll never go.”
― Endgame
― Endgame
“We Communists do not like the expression, “labor dispute”. It suggests a disagreement among people on an equal basis. It suggests a friendly bickering of parties to an agreement who happen to disagree on a certain point. It suggests an amicable and perfectly lovely settlement of mutual grievances. What a false and misleading notion! There are no labor disputes. There is the wish of the capitalist to press some more sweat and blood out of the workers, and there is the wish of the workers to fight their enemy, who feeds on them.”
― Why Communism?: Plain Talks on Vital Problems
― Why Communism?: Plain Talks on Vital Problems
“But it may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess, they are the worst remembered and so offer the least resistance to that process by which we mold them nearer and nearer to an ideal which is fundamentally artistic, or at least nonfactual; so it may be that some of these events I describe never occurred at all, but only should have, and that others had not the shades and flavors—for example, of jealousy or antiquity or shame—that I have later unconsciously chosen to give them.”
― Peace
― Peace
MARXISM FOR FOOLS
— 69 members
— last activity Dec 20, 2017 12:39PM
cool and good place to talk about books
kalyx’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at kalyx’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,205 books
|
146 friends
982 books
|
376 friends
2,127 books
|
53 friends
929 books
|
78 friends
1,991 books
|
86 friends
414 books
|
78 friends
5,058 books
|
337 friends
4,156 books
|
390 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by kalyx
Lists liked by kalyx