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Harry Potter #2
Throughout the summer holidays after his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter …
Harry Potter #1
When mysterious letters start arriving on his doorstep, Harry Potter has never …
I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.
— Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Gryffindor Edition by J. K. Rowling (Page 173)
She should really sort out her priorities... And I'm really disappointed that this sentence is not in the book!
Harry Potter #1
When mysterious letters start arriving on his doorstep, Harry Potter has never …
I love all Harry Potter books. My favorite is fifth and seventh, but the first one is wonderful as well, although it is more for the kids in comparison with the later books. But it makes sense it gets darker the older Harry gets. It's fun to 'return' to the fearless first piece ❤️
Harry Potter #1
When mysterious letters start arriving on his doorstep, Harry Potter has never heard of Hogwarts School of …
It’s the Golden Age of Piracy — a time when greed, ambition, and corruption overcome all loyalties — and a …
Harry Potter #1
When mysterious letters start arriving on his doorstep, Harry Potter has never heard of Hogwarts School of …
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the …
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length …
Každý z nás má v sobě nebe i peklo, Basile.
— The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wild (Page 228)
Znáš-li nepřítele i sám sebe, můžeš bez obav svést sto bitev.
— Art of War : the Classic Guide to Strategy by Sun Tzu, Lionel Giles (Page 23)
'If you know the enemy and yourself, you can fight a hundred battles without fear.' (self-translation)
There are essentially two ways of looking at this book. Either you are a true man of arms, who, I believe, will find this book particularly useful, or you are an ordinary man who will need a little more imagination.
The first three or four chapters are abstract and can be extrapolated to today's situations very well. Although when the book talks about nature and landscape and its tactical effect during war I found it hard to imagine any practical use. But that could be just me.
Origin is a 2017 mystery thriller novel by American author Dan Brown and the fifth …
Content warning Talking about some philosophical concept in the review. I think nothing major, but just in case 👌
I have been reading about Robert Langdon since I was around 15, and I have always thought how cool he was.
In this book, he once again enters the battle between religion and science, polemicising if the two could, should or must go hand in hand. I, personally, have a strong opinion about religion, but this book got me a bit excited about the concept of truly 'modern' religion, which hopefully can be supported by science.
It also got me thinking about the difference between religion and faith itself, and how nuanced those two are.
As a person who knows a bit about IT, I occasionally have a bad time reading IT reference texts. So I can imagine particular parts of this book being a little more challenging to people with a deeper IT knowledge.
Overall, I'm definitely not disappointed 👍and I hope I will be able to return to this book again sometime.