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HAHA Bourne's conversation with the guy who works for the Frenchman is SO funny. "You're old." "No, I'm not." "But you're over 30." And that just KILLS Bourne's ego to be told that being 30+ makes him old as hell.

The thing with all these people glazing Jason Bourne is just SO funny. But honestly, having an understand of geo/global politics greatly helps to make the connections between things happening that Ludlum doesn't spell out for you. My bet is that The Jackal is responsible for the State Department's plan going off the rails. Of course it has to be him.

Characters are awesome, the sci-fi is not very strong in this one but maybe that comes into stronger play at a later part of this book. Haven't read an easy-to-read book like this in a while, very enjoyable.

The ending is INSANE, not at all where I thought ACC would take it. The HAL 9000 thing is negligible compared to the overarching story, and I'm honestly not sure why HAL became what this book/movie is known for. 4.5/5 stars.

Engels had me very emotional at the end of S:U+S. You can see that he has such deep love and admiration for the working class and is fully aware of the great power they posses. Through this text he is able to tell even the most hopeless-feeling person that change is not only possible, but WILL happen. The contradictions of capitalism will bring the class struggle to a head, whether we want it to or not.

The scene where the Discovery makes it journey over Jupiter and the second probe they sent brings back footage of some sort of volcano looking thing with a halo cloud on it... that was just INCREDIBLE. And specifically mentioning the volcano halo cloud is definitely laying the ground for something else, perhaps something to do with the black rectangle box thing...

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific is a short introduction to materialism and dialectics and how both are these are applied in order to develop the materialist conception of history and uncover the inner laws of capitalism. On this basis, Marx and Engels turned socialism that was once utopia into a scientific method of understanding the world, and also how to change it. Materialist dialectics are so GOATed.

Clarke and his hilarious love for writing Unknown Objects In And/Or From Space (TM) is just great. I wonder if the ending will be open-ended just like Rendezvous with Rama... but I am very much looking forward to HAL's introduction.

This book requires some foundational knowledge of economics (classical economics?) which may require reading a micro- or macro-economics textbook. However, the point in chapter two is clear: when members of banks, industry, and government sit on each other's boards and committees, they act solely within their interests and the working class suffers greatly for it. "How will the shareholders buy their 15th yacht!"

I will admit that Riordan eventually managed to make the really annoying and repetitive humour based on the absurdity of the situation, actually work. Not all the time, but it was working more than it was failing which is much better than how it was in the first half of the book. The flyting was... fine?? Magnus really power-of-friendship'd his way through it which was too easy. All that apocalyptic doom for NOTHING.

I forgot how much I dislike young adult/middle-grade fiction. It is unbearable to read first person POV and have to be in Magnus' mind. This book's only saving grace is that it is easy to read, and I'll finally be able to knock it off my bookshelf as 'Complete.'

"The slave is sold once and for all; the proletarian must sell himself daily and hourly." BANGER LINE.

Just INCREDIBLE. Wow wow wow. Keneally's writing was absolutely perfect for telling the story of Oskar Schindler. He is truly such an interesting person and it was the incredible the things he managed to pull off. He was charming but also a little eccentric, I'd say? I think that bit of eccentricity was exactly what he needed to do all that he did. One of the best books I've read.

Josef Bau's wedding actually gave me insane nerves, especially near the end when he had to make a run for it. I was PANICKING, but honestly this little bit of sunshine in the Amon-induced darkness of Plaszow was refreshing... I wanted to grab Goldberg by the shoulders and violently shake him for demanding diamonds to put people on the Schindler list. Schindler would NEVER.

This book is AMAZING. This book is almost written like a half-documentary and half-fictional recounting, I'm not sure how to describe it. I haven't read this style of writing in so long, and it really stands out. Just a bit difficult to keep track of all the people involved, but it is still easy to remember/figure out from context clues.

This book was funny, LOL. I think the writing style is odd enough that I might actually read the next volume.

WHY IS TALIA A VILLAIN??? This is NOT who Talia is. Grant Morrison has done irreversible damage to Talia's character.

Lenin's explanation of the state's role in the revolution is so clear. "Dictatorship of the proletariat" sounds scary until you read about what it really means, and then you understand that it may be the only true form of democracy.

The last section: the ruling class and the media they control must sometimes give in to the public. The people will notice when the media tries too hard to keep pushing the viewpoint of the ruling class, so every now and then, they have to give in to maintain the pretense of "the free press" and "democracy." This is how they keep people complacent. This book was so good.

Why is high schooler Araragi getting into a brawl with a middle schooler LOL. This book is so funny!!

Interesting writing style?? NisiOisiN's writing style is quite unique and I think he may be an eccentric person because what he's writing is definitely not normal, LOL. Not in a bad way though. Banter is funny too.

I feel like I have to re-read the entire series to even be able to mildly understand anything that happened in this book.

Everything is finally coming together... but I'm most excited about Gurney and Stilgar 'reuniting.' It's sort of like the old crew coming back together. I can't wait for Jessica's plan to completely unleash and play out, she is going to once again show that she is Muad'Dib's mother for a reason!!

PLEASE LET IT BE GURNEY. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE I want Gurney back!!! There's no way it couldn't be Gurney!! There's a reason why Herbert told us about the smuggler name for Jacurutu!!

Lenin is slandering Kautsky at every possible chance LOL. Kautsky is his ultimate opp. I've never seen a bigger hater than Lenin.

The scene of Alia and Jessica in the great hall (where Paul fought Feyd Rautha!!!) was AMAZING. The Fedaykin Fremen aligning himself with Jessica was giving me Dune and Dune Messiah vibes again, I was sooo happy. This is definitely the 'triggering event' and the plot will start to roll, I can't imagine 'Jacurutu' being a real place though. I feel like it might be more of a mental thing?

A lot to say but basically, I pretty much understand why people are wishing for America's less-than-positive fate... "Chairman Xi, liberate us in the West" or whatever it is that the Twitter post said, LOL.

I forgot to update this, but the scene with the corpse was certainly............... something........... Luo Binghe, would you like to be normal for once? Most of all, I just want Liu Qingge's story because he's actually a much funnier character than I initially thought. But also at SQQ, I was literally like, "Am I watching an episode of Supernatural?"

NEVERMIND, SUDDENLY BOOK SLUMP AND BURN OUT DISAPPEAR WHEN I AM FACED WITH BL IN THE ART OF THE WRITTEN FORM!!!!!!! Does Liu Qingge get his own side story...

Woooooow, this book is so great, it would be so nice if I could read it instead of staring at the wall all day every day because I'm so awfully terribly horribly burnt out. Like, what?