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The true enemy of success is not failure but conformity and mediocrity. How to change …
I already had all my cows, defects, excuses and negativity under hard eyes. The problem is, well, to change it. Nice book, useful for some people.
A day in the life of Bast, another of those enigmatic characters and my favourite one.
It was just too short but full of ambiguous details. I like that kind of narration
Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a …
A very peculiar story about one of the most enigmatic and special characters in the Kingkiller Chronicles.
This book is Auri itself. Broken, silent. Slow. Too damn slow.
An important early classic of fantasy/sci-fi. [Main story:] The ill effects of a soul-destroying play, …
The clues were easy to follow, until it's explicitly stated at the end. Great story. Unexpected.
While searching for a way to remove the armor that has become stuck on him, …
Simple, easy, but still useful.
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian …
This is an impressive story. I can't find words raw enough to describe its violence, the desire of survival, of evilness, of arrogance for playing God and never dying.
I feasted in every word, enjoyed it, felt it like the desert, the heat, the dark smell of rotting blood. Not a good thing considering I live in a godamn steppe that's slowly turning into a desert, but I've been there.
The permanent nihilism in every word. The Judge was such a remarkable character, engulfing the world alone, bringing chaos, war, destruction, just for his own diversion. I liked Glanton too, and the corruption of the whole company. You can't win against the devil. He even plays the violin.
What else can I say? It had a Heart of Darkness vibe. The obscure path towards the evil seeds growing in the heart. You lose respect for life if you notice how …
This is an impressive story. I can't find words raw enough to describe its violence, the desire of survival, of evilness, of arrogance for playing God and never dying.
I feasted in every word, enjoyed it, felt it like the desert, the heat, the dark smell of rotting blood. Not a good thing considering I live in a godamn steppe that's slowly turning into a desert, but I've been there.
The permanent nihilism in every word. The Judge was such a remarkable character, engulfing the world alone, bringing chaos, war, destruction, just for his own diversion. I liked Glanton too, and the corruption of the whole company. You can't win against the devil. He even plays the violin.
What else can I say? It had a Heart of Darkness vibe. The obscure path towards the evil seeds growing in the heart. You lose respect for life if you notice how easy is to take it away with any power in your means. The boy, even being brash himself, knew better. But no one can challenge the Judge and live forever.
In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the wealthy heiress Portia but …
Shakespeare's tragedy of jealousy and suspicion presented scene by scene in comic book format.
Happy 53rd birthday, Doctor. Welcome to the first day of your death.When a mysterious letter bearing these threatening words is …
The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period (roughly 5th …
4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual …
How not to love these stories full of cynicism, exploration, satire and darkness? I didn't think I'd enjoy all of them in the same way I enjoyed "The metamorphosis".
I feel like I've finally paid a debt to the little child I was. Look at me, you already know what all the words mean.
"Payoff investigates the true nature of motivation, our partial blindness to the way it works, and how we can bridge …
