Sign in with Facebook
to-read
(1863)
currently-reading (5)
read (1245)
did-not-finish (0)
review-of-the-year (1)
fiction (541)
nonfiction (493)
female-author (322)
auto-biography (256)
history (124)
sci-fi (122)
horror (113)
currently-reading (5)
read (1245)
did-not-finish (0)
review-of-the-year (1)
fiction (541)
nonfiction (493)
female-author (322)
auto-biography (256)
history (124)
sci-fi (122)
horror (113)
dystopia
(111)
religion (93)
2016 (88)
war (77)
2012 (76)
2013 (76)
2021 (75)
2014 (74)
2011 (73)
spiritual (71)
2008 (67)
latin-american (67)
religion (93)
2016 (88)
war (77)
2012 (76)
2013 (76)
2021 (75)
2014 (74)
2011 (73)
spiritual (71)
2008 (67)
latin-american (67)
Our own culture is schizophrenic upon the subject of power.
“Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.”
― Cool Memories
― Cool Memories
“I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.”
―
―
“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot.”
―
―
“The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void. We are back in the Byzantine situation, where idolatry calls on a plethora of images to conceal from itself the fact that God no longer exists. That's why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of a presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.”
― Cool Memories
― Cool Memories
Books I Loathed
— 1951 members
— last activity Feb 18, 2025 09:17AM
This is a public forum for people to kvetch (cleanly, please) about books they absolutely hated, and for others to respond. Though nonfiction is certa ...more
Angela’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Angela’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
479 books
|
63 friends
2,502 books
|
209 friends
2,032 books
|
197 friends
1,058 books
|
62 friends
1,064 books
|
139 friends
1,244 books
|
1,387 friends
201 books
|
2,880 friends
3,778 books
|
471 friends
More friends…
Polls voted on by Angela
Lists liked by Angela
