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I diari Murderbot, di Martha Wells: I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites. It had been well over 35,000 hours or so since then, with still not much murdering, but probably, I don't know, a little under 35,000 hours of movies, serials, books, plays and music consumed. As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.

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Ho appena letto il quinto libro. E quando uscirà il sesto l'anno prossimo lo prenderò. - ghira - -

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Se mi ricordo bene è solo nel quinto libro che scopriamo il vero nome di ART. - ghira - -

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Francesco Pelagi to Biblioteca di Alessandria, Francesco Pelagi's feed, Lines From Books
"Ma parliamoci chiaro: statisticamente, quante volte in una vita si scopa con amore? (per amore è una preposizione che manco voglio pensare) Valeria Parrella - Enciclopedia della donna Aggiornamento

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non c'è una parola in questa citazione che non mi irriti profondamente - AdRiX - [ 5 ] -

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Attenzione .. qualcuno di qui .. sa di cosa parlo. - yery from Android - -

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Francesco Pelagi to Biblioteca di Alessandria, Lines From Books
"Qualcuno, più critico, iniziò a chiedersi se la cura non fosse peggiore della malattia." Piero Cipriano, Il manicomio chimico

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"L'occhio del mostro non è buono né cattivo, l'occhio del mostro vede" Simona Vinci, La prima verità. http://www.einaudi.it/med...

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E questo bellissimo libro, un capolavoro a mio avviso, mi ha fatto tornare alla mente NABUC. Nei primi anni 2000, all' OPG di Aversa, il dr Adolfo Ferraro, direttore dell'istituto, realizzò una rivista edita dagli ospiti dell'istituto. Nabuc, in omaggio a Nabucodonosor. - Francesco Pelagi - [ 1 ] -

Per approfondire il tema del libro Island of Outcasts (1990) Director: Jane Gabriel A frank and disturbing look at the psychiatric asylum on the Greek island of Leros https://www.youtube.com/w... - Francesco Pelagi - -

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"For a regular civilian male, hanging out in a hotel suite with porn starlets is a tense and emotionally convolved affair. There is, first, the matter of having seen the various intimate activities and anatomical parts of these starlets in videos heretofore and thus (weirdly) feeling shy about meeting them. But there is also a complex erotic tension."

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"Because porn films’ worlds are so sexualized, with everybody seemingly teetering right on the edge of coitus all the time and it taking only the slightest nudge or excuse—a stalled elevator, an unlocked door, a cocked eyebrow, a firm handshake—to send everyone tumbling into a tangled mass of limbs and orifices, there’s a bizarre unconscious expectation/dread/ hope that this is what might happen in Max Hardcore’s hotel room." - Eivind from Android - -

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Big Red Son, Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace - Eivind from Android - -

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Valentina Quepasa to Lines From Books
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” (Terry Pratchett - Reaper Man)

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<3 - maitani - -

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"Whether she was a distressed member of the gentry or social upstart, the governess also reflected a new social fluidity, at once both dynamic and destabilizing. She was a reminder that, in this brave new world, one could go up - but also down - the social ladder with startling rapidity. 'Reader, I married him,' Jane Eyre triumphantly asserts - words that would have filled the average Victorian mistress of the house with dread for the safety of her son."

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The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse - Piu Marie Eatwell - Jennifer D. - -

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Alan Rickman -Proust Recitation https://www.youtube.com/w...

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"Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies, it – our life – hides from us, made invisible by our laziness which, certain of a future, delays them incessantly. - maitani - -

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The cataclysm doesn’t happen, we don’t do any of it, because we find ourselves back in the heart of normal life, where negligence deadens desire. And yet we shouldn’t have needed the cataclysm to love life today. It would have been enough to think that we are humans, and that death may come this evening." - maitani - -

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[Jennifer Strange]: I don't think mammals are on the way out, Maltcassion. [Maltcassion]:That's what the giant reptiles said. What are they now? Birds. -- Jasper Fforde, The Last Dragonslayer

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So basically the rest of the mammals die out and bats go through rapid diversification? - John B. - [ 1 ] -

Quite possibly! And then they speak of the 'Batman Prophecies,' which had predicted this for centuries... - Jennifer D. - [ 1 ] -

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"Nothing about him looked particularly demonic, at least by classical standards. No horns, no wings. Admittedly he was listening to a Best of Queen tape, but no conclusions should be drawn from this because all tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums." [Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens]

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«J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor, vocals by F. Mercury» - .mau. - [ 3 ] -

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"At that point is has become clear that at least one person is not going to come back from the trip alive, and what most crews do is start cutting the cards. Loser politely cuts his throat. If loser is not polite, the other four give him etiquette lessons." Gateway, by Frederik Pohl.

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"She peered at him like he was a slipped stitch: unforeseen, infuriating, just asking to be unpicked." Longbourn, Jo Baker

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"These malevolent unfeeling inkfish had traveled twelve light-years across interstellar space to wipe out humanity and then knock down all of our Pizza Huts, so that they could seize our rare blue jewel of a world as their own. It was my mission to use my baller videogame skills to stop them. Boo-yah. Press FIRE to continue." Armada, Ernest Cline

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"Leave it to a writer to go nuts and think he can take over the world with his Dungeons and Dragons crew." Richard Kadrey, Killing Pretty

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"'I'm Instagramming the seagull shit.' 'Good idea. It could be a Nazi seagull.' 'Please. Seagulls are anarchists,' Candy says. 'They don't play by anybody's rule but their own.'" Richard Kadrey, Killing Pretty

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"The Ephebians made wine out of anything they could put in a bucket, and ate anything that couldn't climb out of one." Pyramids, Terry Pratchett

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"Her intensity is terrifying: it makes me want to pin a notice on her power suit saying FRONT TOWARDS ENEMY." The Annihilation Score, Charles Stross

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""It said, 'The World Shall Hear From Me Again! Tremble, Fools, Before It Is Too Late! - Professor Freudstein.' And it was printed in Comic Sans." So. First we have an outbreak of superpowers... and now we have a soi-disant Mad Scientist with /really/ bad typographic taste on our hands. How could things possibly get any worse?" The Annihilation Score, Charles Stross

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"The little boy in him was crestfallen that he wasn't going on the adventure. Then he reminded himself that he was already part of the biggest adventure ever, and that, so far, it had been altogether miserable." Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

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"Shingvere crowed. 'At last, our battle cry,' he said. 'A bath, and the king be hanged!' he shouted, brandishing his fork. 'Clean clothes, then victory!'" All the Paths of Shadow, Frank Tuttle

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"At a time when most of Europe was locked in war over matters of religion and imperial ambition, the exchange of natural objects prompted an intellectual civility that stood in stark contrast to national disputes. While a naturalist like Cole might have difficulty traveling from Protestant England to the Spanish-occupied Netherlands, his sketch of a rhinoceros horn or a seed packet could cross borders with relative ease..."

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"..and foster friendships that rose above linguistic, religious, and national obstacles." The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution, Deborah E. Harkness - Jennifer D. - -

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Fuzzy, Biter and Sting didn't know how they'd get there, but they knew they could make it big on Lime Street. Coming to a Playhouse near you, Summer 1604. - Jennifer D. - -

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"Turns out 'The Crucible' is more about bitches than witches," Beautiful Chaos, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

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This series isn't great Literature, but has some great bits. "You know vegetablism is one step closer ta a world without panties an' preachers." - Jennifer D. - [ 1 ] -

During a staging of "The Crucible," 'The afflicted girls got caught texting, and the confiscation of their phones was a bigger affliction than the one the Devil was supposed to have brought on them in the first place.' - Jennifer D. - [ 1 ] -

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"One dark November day in 1923, Dorothy Leigh Sayers sat in her London office, rehearsing a lie until it sounded like the unvarnished truth. She excelled at playing with words, and making things up, whether in advertising copy or detective fiction. Now her imagination faced it's sternest challenge....She had invented a mysterious illness to justify taking eight weeks off work,

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hoping none of the men she reported to would enquire to closely into the medical problems of a valued female member of the staff." - The Golden Age of Murder: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story by Martin Edwards - Katy_S - [ 1 ] -

Apparently this is how she hid her pregnancy. - Katy_S - -

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"[Stashek]'d also agreed to be betrothed to the Archduke of Varsha's daughter, a girl of nine who had evidently impressed him a great deal by being able to spit across a garden plot. I was a little dubious about this as a foundation for marriage, but I suppose it wasn't much worse than marrying her because her father might have stirred up rebellion, otherwise." Uprooted, Naomi Novik

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"Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees." Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures

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