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Jack Edwards
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in London, The United Kingdom
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January 2019
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https://www.goodreads.com/thejackexperience
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The Uni-Verse: The Ultimate Guide to Surviving University
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I heard Jacob Collier say "I don't believe [Rick Rubin's] audience is creative people. I think his audience is people who aren't creative, for whom creativity is novel" and now my entire perception of this book is refracted through that lens Some grea ...more |
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| This reads like a Victorian novel (derogatory) in its excessive level of detail and convoluted sentence structure. Though each individual sentence is well crafted, combined together it mostly reads as tangential nonsense. There are some gorgeous line ...more | |
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weird books are sooooooo back i loved this genuinely funny with so many one-liner zingers, but also really interesting commentary on parenting, monogamy, the institution of marriage, pooled wisdom, menopause, and sexuality miranda july is the master |
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| you think you know YEARNING and then you read madonna in a fur coat!!!!!!!!!!! you think you know THE FLEETING NATURE OF HAPPINESS and then you read madonna in a fur coat!!!!!!!!!!! you think you know UNREQUITED LOVE and then you read madonna in a fu ...more | |
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Martyr! is the kind of book you never forget reading. I wish I could wipe my brain clean and read it again for the first time. But, then again, I'm also grateful to now be equipped with the vocabulary to explain big philosophical ideas in palatable w ...more |
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| this reads like a Wes Anderson movie in the form of a book -- an interesting discussion about how trauma sells, and a fun allegory about the way people (especially in publishing) profit from other's stories / tragedies, sacrificing the truth in favou ...more | |
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I knew this was going to be a 5 star read from the very first paragraph and it somehow just got better and better Gorgeous writing with meticulous attention to detail; characters so real they walk off the page; dialogue so believable you forget there’ ...more |
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“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
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“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.”
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“The train was nearly twenty minutes late, an excellent performance by British Rail standards.”
― Trainspotting
― Trainspotting
“I hadn't even the necessary credentials for schoolmastering - that last refuge of the unsuccessful literary man”
― Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties
― Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties
“Fame is the enemy of instinct and spontaneity, the difference between what is said and what ought to be said, and the transformation of one person into two”
― A River Dies of Thirst: Journals
― A River Dies of Thirst: Journals
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