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255   8.1  

Greatest book ever written (that I've read).

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491   7.9  

My memory is foggy, but I know it was excellent.

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170   8.2  

Never a dull moment!

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533   7.9  

Read a long time ago... amazing book.

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159   8.4  

Wow!

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57   7.7  

The silence spreads. I talk and must talk. So I speak to him and say to
him: "Comrade, I did not want to kill you. If you jumped in here again, I
would not do it, if you would be sensible too. But you were only an idea
to me before, an abstraction that lived in my mind and called forth its
appropriate response. It was that abstraction I stabbed. But now, for the
first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades,
of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our
fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they
never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just
as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the
same dying and the same agony—Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy? If we threw away these rifles and this uniform you could be my brother just like Kat and Albert. Take twenty years of my life,
comrade, and stand up—take more, for I do not know what I can even
attempt to do with it now."

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305   8.4  

The Ultimate Guide to Quirky Wit

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42   7.6  

"Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change."

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128   7.7  

So depressing!

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248   9  

The complexity of the drawings alone is enough to read this comic. I also enjoyed the philosophy. Could have done without the squid sub-plot though...

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328   7.4  

I don't remember much about this book but I _do_ remember not being able to put it down.

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107   8.6  

Doesn't compare with the movie. Maybe I'd sing a different tune if I'd read this before seeing the movie...

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