Darren Burton

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Darren.


The Martian
Darren Burton is currently reading
by Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 86 of 369)
Apr 12, 2026 07:14PM

 
Big Week: The Big...
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 245 of 400)
Jan 23, 2026 03:13AM

 
The Speed of Dark
Darren Burton is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 51 of 369)
Jan 15, 2026 03:31AM

 
See all 111 books that Darren is reading…
Loading...
Adam Smith
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Oliver Sacks
“To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or, at least, the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves, whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning technology, or in states of mind that allow us to travel to other worlds, to rise above our immediate surroundings.

We may seek, too, a relaxing of inhibitions that makes it easier to bond with each other, or transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear. We seek a holiday from our inner and outer restrictions, a more intense sense of the here and now, the beauty and value of the world we live in.”
Oliver Sacks

“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
Michael Crichton

Wendell Berry
“People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.”
Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Howard Zinn
“History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it.”
Howard Zinn

year in books
Callum'...
447 books | 3,111 friends

Will By...
2,599 books | 4,986 friends

Jill H.
2,777 books | 852 friends

Angelik...
111 books | 4,337 friends

Steven
127 books | 10 friends

Toni Ma...
111 books | 2 friends

Martin ...
1,506 books | 204 friends

Colleen...
2,184 books | 452 friends

More friends…
The Stand by Stephen  King
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,387 books — 123,387 voters
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Stand by Stephen  KingA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterSpeaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,888 books — 49,805 voters

More…



Polls voted on by Darren

Lists liked by Darren