I'll be done in a few days but it's already the greatest book I've ever read hands down

For real? If you post some extended thoughts when you're done, I'll be happy to read them.

I might start a journal for reading

Should I taste your journal instead?

if you can get past the packaging

You should write it in fruit-flavored braille.

Terry Pratchett - The Light Fantastic (1986)

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" I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be
I'M AN ASS, YOU'RE AN ASS. That's the most liberating, wonderful
thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's
wonderful. When people tell me, "You're wrong". I say, "What can
you expect of an ass"?

Disarmed, everybody has to be disarmed. I n the final liberation, I 'm
an ass, you're an ass. Normally the way it goes, I press a button and
you're up; I press another button and you're down. And you like that.
How many people do you know who are unaffected by praise or
blame? That isn't human, we say. Human means that you have to be
a little monkey, so everybody can twist your tail, and you do

whatever you OUGHT to be doing. But is that human? If you find me
charming, it means that right now you're in a good mood, nothing
more. It also means that I fit your shopping list. We all carry a
shopping list around, and it's as though you've got to measure up to
this list - tall, um, dark, um, handsome, according to MY tastes. "I
like the sound of his voice". You say, "I'm in love". You're not in love,
you silly ass. Any time you're in love - I hesitate to say this - you're
being particularly asinine. Sit down and watch what's happening to
you.

You're running away from yourself. You want to escape. Somebody
once said, "Thank God for reality, AND for the means to escape from
it". So that's what's going on. We are so mechanical, so controlled.
We write books about being controlled and how wonderful it is to be
controlled and how necessary it is that people tell you you're O.K.
Then you'll have a good feeling about yourself. How wonderful it is to
be in prison!"
Anthony de Mello

I come back to Pratchett every couple of years, his work is simply amazing.
Having said that, Rincewind has to be my least favorite protagonist of all Discworld protagonists. I only liked him in "The Last Continent".
#Vimes_fangirl

a 1965 edition of Ninteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

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I took a snapshot of it because, for some reason, you could also buy a poster of this exact cover for £12 today, to which I did/and have.
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Winston had just finished reading how 'War Is Peace' works out in this secret/underground book he got given penned by public enemy number 1.
Julia was listening as she went to sleep.