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“By all you hold sacred, by all you hold dear, by your love that is lost, by your hope that lives, for the sake of the Almighty, take me out of this and save my soul from guilt! Can't you hear me, man? Can't you understand? Will you never learn? (...) Oh, hear me! Hear me! Let me go, let me go, let me go!"

There goes Bram Stoker teaching the kids reading the book how NOT to ask their parents for things.

"The women looked pretty, except when you got near them"

I had forgotten how much fun this book was. Rereading it after almost 25 years.

"O maior erro de Noé foi não ter matado as duas baratas que entraram na arca."

"Tenho enorme indignação social. Mas noutro dia, verificando todos os problemas sociais do país, e dividindo minha indignação por eles, vi que o percentual de indignação que sobrava para cada um era muito pequeno. Botei meu calção e fui pra praia."

Lots of worldly wisdom and some 100-year-old humour in this fine little book.

After realising that his son "has been investing more heavily in roses than his means warrant", the father gives an honest opinion about the mademoiselle in question:

"(..) but if she's the daughter of old Job Dashkam, on the open Board, I should say, on general principles, that she was a fine girl to let some other fellow marry."

"... E se eles te apertarem muito sobre o que quiseste dizer com um poema, pergunta-lhes apenas o que Deus quis dizer com este mundo..."

"Dizem que sou modesto. Pelo contrário, sou tão orgulhoso que acho que nunca escrevi algo à minha altura."

Despite the frustration, I'm an optimistic and keep proceeding. Reading this, however, is where I draw the line:

“When Owen awakened, he was very much surprised to find himself still alive – which should have been no surprise; otherwise he wouldn’t have awakened in the first place.”

I'm about to be convinced to never read a book by a newspaper reporter again. However interesting the topic may be, they have this strange ability to turn it into something as exciting as the Semifinals of the Romanian Women's Curling Championship.

It's unbelievable how a book about arguments can suddenly develop into a detailed analysis of strategy in the game of tic-tac-toe.

I hate when Steve Wozniak makes me read a terrible book.
Mental note to remember: always judge a book by its title.

Who would guess that Sharon Tate, the not-talented-but-most-beautiful American actress to ever live, did her own home sex tapes - that back in the '60s, decades before Pamela Anderson started the trend? Roman Polanski, you nasty fellow.

After losing his ship and being stuck in Antarctica without any news from the outside world since late 1914, Shackleton finally arrives completely exhausted at the Norwegian whaling station in South Georgia in May 1916.

His first sentence when he meets Mr. Sorlle, the station's manager:

“Tell me, when was the war over?”

“The war is not over. Millions are being killed. Europe is mad. The world is mad.”

If you think your life is a mess, then you haven't read enough about what was going on in the Balkans in the early 20th century.