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I finished the prequel, Words of Radiance in January 2018. At that time, Oathbringer had just been published in November 2017, and I knew I would have to wait perhaps a year or more if I decided to wait for the Chinese translation. I was also pretty confident about my English skills at that time, so I decided to just buy the original version online.
I thought I would finish before the translation was out.
I was wrong.
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how about
there’s no harmony without money
so there’s no harmony without harm & money
lmao
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The best kind of monopoly - targeted ads monopoly.
It’s like superheroes destroying every military in the world, so that only they can kill you.
Continue ...Author: Philip K. Dick
It’s not a long story, but it still took me quite some time to finish, because I have no idea what Philip K. Dick is trying to say, especially toward the end of the book.
Continue ...author: Amal El-Mohtar
year: 2016
2016 Nebula Award for Best Short Story
2017 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
2017 Locus Award for Best Short Story
Hugo Award for Best Short Story (2014) LMFAO
You can read this piece of absolute garbage here.
author: John Chu
Continue ...It’s so easy to escape away from your internal judgment and just use novels or videos or something else to brutally step over it.
Like it never existed.
There’s no harmony, no , without the harm
damn
what a line
was listening to this track like the 100th time
but then the meaning of this very sentence hit me
haven’t noticed it before
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Author: Frank Herbert
Finally finished Dune. I’ve been reading it for like half an year.
Really cannot understand how “great” the book is. But tbf, what Dune is to sci-fi is like what The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, and you can’t really too critical with these foundational works with modern eyes as many of the later works kind of iterate on them, so many of the groundbreaking elements at that time just becomes unoriginal and repetitive to you.
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