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It feels like reading Good Will Hunting. So I’m enjoying it!

“The Chantry’s power in torture was never that it found the truth, even when it did. Rather it was that it taught the great to fear, even the Emperor.”

Page 351: “Often I have found that such outsiders cling hardest to those labels that are denied them; thus weak men are the most aggressive and unskilled ones loudest to boast “

Good good stuff. Very Dune inspired and I love it.

“Fear is death to reason “

Bless us all! We’re just a few days away from the World Cup.

So good.

“I liked writing, and had discovered I was good at it, but what I loved was teaching. It filled me up in some way I can’t explain. Or want to. Explanations are such cheap poetry.”

This thing reads as easy as eating a fat bowl of Mac and cheese. So good

My very first Stephen King novel. It’ll be nice to step back from fantasy and sci-fi for a minute to read this. I’ve heard it’s a heckuva page turner!

This might be the most poetic book I’ve ever read. Pierce is deep in his bag showing people’s motivations and there’s some beautiful writing about death, loss, and purpose. The series goes so much further beyond Hunger Games 2.0.

Pierce Brown is the most aggressive English poet ever born:

“Look where we are. In space. Above a planet we shaped. Yet we live in a Society modeled after the musings of Bronze Age pedophiles. Tossing around mythology like that bullshit wasn’t made up around a campfire by an Attican farmer depressed that his life was nasty, brutish, and short.”

“Forget a man’s name and he’ll forgive you. Remember it, and he’ll defend you forever.”

Starting the reread!

Rereading 3 years later. Love these books!

Still waiting for Alfred and William to get deliciously screwed.

Eff William Hamleigh. And also Alfred.