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The book opens on Earth, eleven thousand years from now. The Anth met their end …
a children's fairy-tale that tries to be everything at once, from fantasy to sci-fi to philosophical parable. failing at every attempt. full of typically american egocentricity and pathos that wants to be complex but is naïve. in the end, quite disgusting and a waste of time.
The book opens on Earth, eleven thousand years from now. The Anth met their end …
i despise myself for not being able to put this bs down, drop it into a virtual trash bin, and just forget it forever. this is my persisting problem with really bad books :-(
i have all 6 books. the 6th is the one i'm most interested in reading.
The book opens on Earth, eleven thousand years from now. The Anth met their end …
what a mess.a children's fairy-tale that tries to be everything from sci-fi and fantasy to phylosophical parable. why am i unable to just drop an annoying book as soon as i stop enjoying it?
«Mme Loiseau avait beau avoir à sa fenêtre des fuchsias, qui prenaient la mauvaise habitude de laisser leurs branches courir toujours partout tête baissée, et dont les fleurs n’avaient rien de plus pressé, quand elles étaient assez grandes, que d’aller rafraîchir leurs joues violettes et congestionnées contre la sombre façade de l’église, les fuchsias ne devenaient pas sacrés pour cela pour moi ; entre les fleurs et la pierre noircie sur laquelle elles s’appuyaient, si mes yeux ne percevaient pas d’intervalle, mon esprit réservait un abîme».
— Du Côté de chez Swann by Marcel Proust (2%)
i must have found proust's shortest and structurally least complex sentence in «du cotê de chez swann»: it fits onto one page! hell, it fits onto one screen of my phone! and i had to re-read it only once — not because of the structure though, but for the beauty of the metaphor.
The book opens on Earth, eleven thousand years from now. The Anth met their end long ago. (You’ll learn how …
The colony ship Ragtime docks in the Lagos system, having traveled light-years to bring one thousand sleeping souls to a …
Digital minimalists are all around us. They're the calm, happy people who can hold long …
it's not a bad book: first, it has interested me because i was ready, i was searching for confirmation of my negative thoughts about social media, post-truth, lack of control over one's life etc.
despite what the author thinks and wants the reader to think, the book dors not have a solution. the «digital minimalism», while an interesting exercise, is not one. it can not save the humanity — it can only serve as a support to those who are already undergoing the transition under the stress of the modern informational assault.
to those who are ready though, the book does propose some points of support in search of the answers, however local, personal and subjective.
Digital minimalists are all around us. They're the calm, happy people who can hold long …
well, finished it yesterday.
January Cole’s job just got a whole lot harder.
Not that running security at the …
pompous, slobbery, read with excessive tearful emotionality (i listened to an audio book read by e.w. zeller). i hasitated between 2 and 3 stars, decided to be generous for no reason; wish there was a way to detect similar writing and avoid it.
January Cole’s job just got a whole lot harder.
Not that running security at the Paradox was ever really easy. …
Digital minimalists are all around us. They're the calm, happy people who can hold long …
«Solitude Deprivation — A state in which you spend close to zero time alone with your own thoughts and free from input from other minds».
— Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport (30%)
Digital minimalists are all around us. They're the calm, happy people who can hold long …
«Storr notes that the need to spend a great deal of time alone was common among “the majority of poets, novelists, and composers».
— Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport (30%)
