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“But let me tell you something. I’m going to grow up to love my work as much
as you love yours. I won’t just have a job; I’ll have a calling. I’ll challenge myself
every day. When I get knocked down, I’ll get back up. I may not be the smartest
person in the room, but I’ll strive to be the grittiest.”

"Given the choice between a solitary run and a series of meaningless and, for me, difficult exercises in the gym, I always chose the run. The result is that I still cannot touch my toes, but then runners never have to."

"I ran for it when I heard my first air-raid siren. I was ten and sailing my boat on a pond half a mile from home. At the first terrifying whine I tucked my boat under my arm, war or no war one had to retain a sense of proportion and of property. By the time the moaning crescendo reached its loudest I had taken to my heels. I imagined bombs and machine guns raining on me if I didn’t go my fastest."

"Not all of the dead are former ping pong players, but all former ping pong players are dead"

"Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know."

This little sign never failed to irritate
me. It read: “Shoes and minds must be left at the gate.” There was a pile of
shoes and sandals next to it, and in my transcendent condition I could almost
picture a heap of abandoned and empty mentalities to round out this literally
mindless little motto. I even attempted a brief parody of a Zen koan: “What is
the reflection of a mind discarded?”

Real confidence comes from real results and real training,

In a race, the job of the muscles is to perform. The job of the mind is to cope. The only way to become really good at coping with the discomforts and stresses of endurance sports is to experience them.

There is something about reading Stephen Fry that makes me feel smnarter and dumber at the same time. It has been so interesting so far, with all those admirable charachters he have met, like Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson, Rowan Atkinson, etc. I am still waiting for him to talk about his friendship with Douglas Adams though.

I thought this book would be kind of exagerated or too weird to be believable, but I am actually loving it. The book is full of typos and grammatical errors, but I guess that is what happens when an author self-publishes his work.

I am finding a lot more interesting and exciting the story about Harry Dunning´s life saving (mostly because of Derry), than Kennedy´s.
I just hope it gets better.

I am on the 2nd part. The 1rst part Was great. I have found this book disturbingly nice, I am really afraid I won't like the ending :S

I love Wowbagger is back in the plot. Nothing against Eoin Colfer, but I do miss the great writting style of Douglas Adams.

Right now the story seems a bit slow. Nothing is really hapenning, Tyron is nowhere to be found, Brienne hasn´t found neither Sansa nor Arya, Khalessi is taking a break from war, and the revolution on Dorne was discovered, so nothing happened there either. I just hope this is the calm before the Storm.

So far this book seems a nice way to learn ITSM according to ITIL, I just hope its useful for the certification exam.

I better read this one faster, my exam is around the corner :S

I just started this yesterday, and I am loving it, this man is the personification of English humor and wittiness.

I am done with "Life, the universe and everithing" just started "So Long and thanks for all the fish". Some people say that the story only goes worse from here on, but I actually like a lot the love tragedies and troubles that Arthur steps into in these 2 last books.

It has come to the point where I am reading lots of books simultaneously (sort of) but can't finish any of them. Anyway this one is very short so I am thinking I am going to focus on this one, which (for what i have read) is as good as one expects a Lovecraft book to be.

Just finished reading "The restaurant at the end of the universe", and started "Life the universe and everithing" I'm loving it!

Reading The restaurant at the end of the universe!

I just got to the part when Alice met Humpty Dumpty, it is truly a great book, full of funny nonsenses and irrational arguments even though they are based in what seems to be logical deduction. Also I was very glad to spot the phrase "sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." which is clearly where Douglas Adams ispired to create the Restaurant at the end of the universe's slogan.

So far in this book Freud hasn't said anything that I couldn´t have deducted. I am glad my thinking and deducting process gets reaffirmed by someone like him though.

I am almost done with this one, the ending is a little better than the rest of the book but unless the last 5% is extraordinary it´s gonna get 2 stars in my review.

Hasta antes de este libro no sabía nada sobre el arquitecto, solo sobre sus obras, ahora que he leido el libro me decepciona ver lo poco que se sabe sobre él y porque no decirlo, tambien me decepcionó un poco lo que sí se sabe de él. Me imaginaba a un Gaudí más interesante, aun no acaba el libro, espero mejoren sus anécdotas.

Esta muy interesante, tal vez el único defecto que le encuentro es que es muy poco descriptivo. Normalmente no me interesa leer libros de historia de México, pero la forma en que introduce los temas de la revolución y su impacto en la cultura y arte mexicano me hace querer leer algo más sobre el tema.

se esta poniendo nuevo

vamos a ver que tal termina la saga, espero que un poco mejor que el 2 que quedó un poco a deber