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Xin is 25% done with Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
This vagueness, mixed with Elio’s attachment to Oliver…
Wow
— Oct 21, 2026 09:17PM Add a comment
Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)

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Xin is 19% done with 原子与灰烬:核灾难的历史
看到这里,我的感受是:果然,核灾难部分来自各自带着目的政策推动者与执行者。
比如刻意在报道中弱化核子相关实弹试验的危害,甚至直接尝试掩饰核危害本身带来的后果。
比基尼环礁,太平洋上遭受核辐射的岛民——实际上都不是不能避免的。
「没人能叫醒一个装睡的人。」
— Oct 12, 2026 04:42AM Add a comment
原子与灰烬:核灾难的历史

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Xin is 59% done with The Shortest History of Europe: How Conquest, Culture, and Religion Forged a Continent - A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History)
Hmmmm, yes, the common people.
The peasants, who were once serfs in the medieval era, had become different people in different regions of Europe.
Tenants, farmers that owned their land etc.
— Sep 06, 2026 01:27AM Add a comment
The Shortest History of Europe: How Conquest, Culture, and Religion Forged a Continent - A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History)

Xin
Xin is on page 388 of 435 of The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)
I'm almost there! Almost!
— Sep 02, 2026 05:18AM Add a comment
The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)

Xin
Xin is on page 369 of 435 of The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)
Yes! Yes! Things finally have an explanation.
It was Amadiro! He put Baley in the airfoil crash and tried to get Daneel!
Daneel is the key!
— Sep 02, 2026 04:46AM Add a comment
The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)

Xin
Xin is on page 338 of 435 of The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)
Yep, Amadiro is a jerk.
He's way too arrogant and doesn't even realize this.
Colonizing new worlds with humanoid robots that can even reproduce and have sex is a dumb idea. Why does Amadiro even believe that in such a circumstance, those robots would still consider themselves as robots instead of human beings? Why does he even think that Spacers can easily take over without encountering any issues?
— Sep 02, 2026 03:38AM Add a comment
The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)

Xin
Xin is on page 265 of 435 of The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)
Wow wow a lot of them.
Visalia, Gremonis…
And I still don’t know who killed the robot.
— Sep 01, 2026 04:40PM Add a comment
The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)

Xin
Xin is on page 205 of 435 of The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)
A bad perspective of a really long life is that you could have an insane amount of bullshit to deal with.
— Aug 31, 2026 06:07PM Add a comment
The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)

Xin
Xin is on page 163 of 435 of The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)
Wow wow things are getting a little bit complicated.
Jander used to be Gladia’s husband? Whaaattt?
A Solarian who once fell in love with a robot?
Well looks like the death of Jander could be due to the Three Laws.
An individual which its only purpose of existence is to please you? Already feels the hidden contradiction here lol
— Aug 29, 2026 10:47PM Add a comment
The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)

Xin
Xin is 54% done with The Shortest History of Europe: How Conquest, Culture, and Religion Forged a Continent - A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History)
Conquer, reconquer, and reconquer.
Rome, Christianity, Islam and Scandinavia.
Nice and chaotic history, Europe!
— Aug 29, 2026 10:44PM Add a comment
The Shortest History of Europe: How Conquest, Culture, and Religion Forged a Continent - A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History)

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Xin is on page 127 of 435 of The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)
So it’s about preventing human beings from such type of colonization with the assistance of robots?
WOW, I just realized that this is the whole point. Nice callback Asimov!
The Spacers grew lazier as they caged themselves in such sterile planets. They have chose not to go further, because they reckon what they already have as all it is.
Cooool
— Aug 12, 2026 08:22PM Add a comment
The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)

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Xin is on page 114 of 435 of The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)
Yes! I knew it! The callback.
Fastolfe is indeed intelligent, he even mentioned the term “psychohistory”, wow insane.
Finally after several years of reading the series, I finally know what type of science psychohistory is. Bro it’s humanics.
— Aug 09, 2026 09:35PM Add a comment
The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)

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Xin is on page 102 of 435 of The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)
There must be something hiding then, since it seems like Fastolfe has no motive to terminate Jander. Well, feels like the climax of the story.
Btw, Daneel seems perfect, except that he’s restricted by the Three Law. Yes, that means he’s a servant of human beings after all. And I don’t think that’s of any kind of free will.
Fastolfe is right, he’s really the masterpiece.
— Aug 07, 2026 06:35AM Add a comment
The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)

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Xin is on page 64 of 435 of The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)
So that was how everything in the Foundation series like even before the empire was created?
R. Daneel was the only functioning humaniform robot back then with Baley, and things seemed to be progressing. Hmmmm, Aurora, Solaria. Earthmen, Spacers… So did people end up destroying themselves?
— Aug 05, 2026 09:24AM Add a comment
The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)

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Xin is 42% done with The Shortest History of Europe: How Conquest, Culture, and Religion Forged a Continent - A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History)
History is indeed a cycle. Citizen-soldiers for all three of Greek democracy, Roman Republic and French Revolution.
That's why it's called the Renaissance, WOW.
— Jul 17, 2026 02:13AM Add a comment
The Shortest History of Europe: How Conquest, Culture, and Religion Forged a Continent - A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History)

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Xin is 33% done with The Shortest History of Europe: How Conquest, Culture, and Religion Forged a Continent - A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History)
Wow OpenDyslexic ist wirklich hilfreich.
Plötzlich kann ich verstehen, was ich lese.
DAMN English orthography sucks.
Übrigens hat Octavian viele Namen, was echt interessant ist. Ich glaube, das ist irgendwie schwierig, sich das zu merken, weil es so viele "Caesaren" in der Geschichte des Römischen Reiches gab.
In sum: Wow I'm making some progress. GOOD.
— Jul 15, 2026 01:56AM Add a comment
The Shortest History of Europe: How Conquest, Culture, and Religion Forged a Continent - A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History)

Xin
Xin is finished with The Martian
The story actually feels way less dramatic compared to the movie.
Anyway I'm finished, wow!
— Jul 05, 2026 06:47AM Add a comment
The Martian

Xin
Xin is on page 391 of 435 of The Martian
Wow!
Electrolyze the water Mark brought with him to get Hydrogen as additional fuel? DAMN SMART. Didn't expect the two thing to be related.
And yes, the modification. I remember it since I've read it for the first time, but wow, such radical!
Finally realized why I love it. SO DAMN HARDCORE!
— Jul 05, 2026 02:31AM Add a comment
The Martian

Xin
Xin is on page 372 of 435 of The Martian
Made it to Schiaparelli, bypassed the sandstorm... And the rover rolled.
I knew it Andy, it's a damn sci-fi.
— Jul 05, 2026 12:30AM Add a comment
The Martian

Xin
Xin is 54% done with Naive Set Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
Well, arithmetics.
I'd say it's actually more intuitive than what I've expected it to be.
I'm going to reread the entire book after finishing it anyway, plenty of time left!
— Jul 04, 2026 11:47PM Add a comment
Naive Set Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

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Xin is 24% done with The Shortest History of Europe: How Conquest, Culture, and Religion Forged a Continent - A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History)
A bunch of things. Dunno how to describe here briefly. So let's say I'm making some progress.
— Jul 02, 2026 01:30AM Add a comment
The Shortest History of Europe: How Conquest, Culture, and Religion Forged a Continent - A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History)

Xin
Xin is on page 330 of 435 of The Martian
Mark is testing the modification on the rover as planned.
Energy from solar panels will reduce because of a Martian sandstorm? At least it's a fiction, Mark is going to working it out.
— Jul 02, 2026 12:52AM Add a comment
The Martian

Xin
Xin is on page 301 of 435 of The Martian
— Jun 28, 2026 05:22AM Add a comment
The Martian

Xin
Xin is on page 271 of 435 of The Martian
Pathfinder's dead, as expected (cuz it's a DAMN SCI-FI, this is just how story works).
— Jun 26, 2026 02:11AM Add a comment
The Martian

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Xin is on page 254 of 435 of The Martian
— Jun 22, 2026 03:13AM Add a comment
The Martian

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