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Adrien is Currently Reading

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The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James

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"I try to judge things for myself; to judge wrong, I think, is more honourable than not to judge at all.

I wish to choose my fate and know something of human affairs beyond what other people think it compatible with propriety to tell me." — Mar 22, 2024 08:29PM

Mar 22, 2024 08:29PM

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High Rising (Barsetshire, #1)

by Angela Thirkell

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Feb 27, 2024 12:06PM

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The Master

by Colm Tóibín

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Feb 27, 2024 12:05PM

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Adrien’s Quotes

“Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”
― Terence McKenna, History Ends in Green: Gaia, Psychedelics and the Archaic Revival

tags: environment, freedom, intellectual-freedom, mind, self-determination

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“Good writing is rhythm.”
― William Peter Blatty

tags: writing-process

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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

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Pulp Fiction — 1909 members — last activity Dec 02, 2025 03:46PM
Hard Boiled detective novels, noir, and great crime novels (old and new)

Comic Books — 270 members — last activity Apr 19, 2022 08:45PM
DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, and others. This is the place to geek out about your favorite characters and lamest plot-lines.

Philip K Dick — 1699 members — last activity Apr 12, 2024 05:44AM
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What's the Name of That Book??? — 119414 members — last activity 29 minutes ago
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The Readers Review: Literature from 1714 to 1910 — 3715 members — last activity 4 hours, 32 min ago
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