ThePageWizard

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The Men Who Would Be King: An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and a Company Called DreamWorks

The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History

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Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)

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How do I get over my snobbery towards myself?

Ever since I was little, I have read a lot. Of course I started with YA fantasy and contemporary high school romance, but I branched out and nowdays I mostly read lit-fic and classics. Or so I say publicly. The case is that I still really enjoy some cheesy plot-focused YA fantasys and scifis. The reason why this matters is because I got selected into a group of young writers and poets (aged between 13 and 20), that seem to have potential. We go to workshops once a month in Budapest and we also have chance for publication. Now I am having a lot of fun, made really good friends and everyone is really cool, but most people only read litfic and classics there. Which makes me feel stupid. When we had to introduce ourselves I was so afraid to mention that my all time favourite books are a japanese light novel series. I don't know if they judged me based on that, but these peeps are out here reading Dostoyevski and Szerb. Which I love too, but I am currenty rereading Cinder by Marissa Meyer for the third time, which is not really the height of intellectual work, more just a well written fun story. Of course I would never judge anyone for reading whatever the want, I am more afraid of being judged myself. The other young writers are really cool, and I don't think they would think I am a brainlet for liking "sloppier" books, but I still feel inferior. How do I get over this?

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The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)

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Mar 19, 2026

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Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 4.5Plot: 2.0

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Fans say you shouldn't read Discworld in chronological order; some say to skip the first books altogether (including Terry himself). Well, I was stubborn, and I figured if I could watch Doctor Who in order, I could do anything.

Next time I'll listen.

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The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)

Terry Pratchett

In a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet...

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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result. IF WE BURN is a stirring work of history built around a single, vital question: How did so many mass protests lead to the opposite of what they asked for? From the so-called Arab Spring to Gezi Park in Turkey, from Ukraine’s Euromaidan to student rebellions in Chile and Hong Kong, acclaimed journalist Vincent Bevins provides a blow-by-blow account of street movements and their consequences, recounted in gripping detail. He draws on four years of research and hundreds of interviews conducted around the world, as well as his own strange experiences in Brazil, where a progressive-led protest explosion led to an extreme-right government that torched the Amazon. Careful investigation reveals that conventional wisdom on revolutionary change is gravely misguided. In this groundbreaking study of an extraordinary chain of events, protesters and major actors look back on successes and defeats, offering urgent lessons for the future.

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Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)

Matt Dinniman

"The training levels have concluded. Now the games may truly begin." The ratings and views are off the chart. The fans just can't get enough. The dungeon gets more dangerous each day. But in a grinder designed to chew up and spit out crawlers by the millions, Carl and Princess Donut need to work harder than ever just to survive. They call it the Over City. A sprawling, once-thriving metropolis devastated by a mysterious calamity. But these streets are far from abandoned. An undead circus trawls the ruins. Murdered prostitutes rain from the sky. An ancient spell is finally ready to reveal its dark purpose. Carl still has no pants. They call it Dungeon Crawler World. For Carl and Donut, it's anything but a game.

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Starting Somewhere: Community Organizing for Socially Awkward People Who've Had Enough

Roderick Douglass

Starting Community Organizing For Socially Awkward People Who've Had Enough offers readers a crash course in organizing, educating, and agitating in the 21st Century. Written with a mix of incriminating anecdotes, personal retellings, and historical examples, Starting Somewhere is a first-person look at radical community organizing for misfits and outcasts committed to saving this planet for some inexplicable reason. Approx. 200 pages.

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Educated

Tara Westover

Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag". In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent. Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home. Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes and the will to change it.

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Ornamentalism

Anne Anlin Cheng

Ornamentalism offers one of the first sustained and original theories of Asiatic femininity. Examining ornamentality, in lieu of Orientalism, as a way to understand the representation, circulation, and ontology of Asiatic femininity, this study extends our vocabulary about the woman of color beyond the usual platitudes about objectification. By offering us a conceptual frame through which to focus on race without being solely beholden to flesh or skin, this study alters the foundational terms of feminism and places Asian femininity at the center of an entire epistemology of race. By tracing a direct link between the making of artificial Asiatic femininity and a seemingly much more technological history of synthetic personhood in the West from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Ornamentalism shows how the construction of modern personhood in the multiple realms of law, culture, and art has been surprisingly indebted to this very marginal figure. Drawing from and speaking to the multiple fields of feminism, critical race theory, visual culture, performance studies, legal studies, Modernism, Orientalism, Object Studies and New Materialism, Ornamentalism will leave reader with a greater understanding of what it is to be in American culture.

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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib

A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times bestselling author of Go Ahead in the Rain At the March on Washington in 1963, Josephine Baker was fifty-seven years old, well beyond her most prolific days. But in her speech she was in a mood to consider her life, her legacy, her departure from the country she was now triumphantly returning to. “I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too,” she told the crowd. Inspired by these few words, Hanif Abdurraqib has written a profound and lasting reflection on how Black performance is inextricably woven into the fabric of American culture. Each moment in every performance he examines—whether it’s the twenty-seven seconds in “Gimme Shelter” in which Merry Clayton wails the words “rape, murder,” a schoolyard fistfight, a dance marathon, or the instant in a game of spades right after the cards are dealt—has layers of resonance in Black and white cultures, the politics of American empire, and Abdurraqib’s own personal history of love, grief, and performance. Abdurraqib writes prose brimming with jubilation and pain, infused with the lyricism and rhythm of the musicians he loves. With care and generosity, he explains the poignancy of performances big and small, each one feeling intensely familiar and vital, both timeless and desperately urgent. Filled with sharp insight, humor, and heart, A Little Devil in America exalts the Black performance that unfolds in specific moments in time and space—from midcentury Paris to the moon, and back down again to a cramped living room in Columbus, Ohio.

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Thoughts from 5% (page 38)

Just found out de Beauvoir allegedly groomed teenage students and psychologically abused them -- is the work important enough to keep reading?

Because it isn't even like it isn't related to the work; you can't write about liberation credibly (in my opinion) and also be an abuser. It also feels then like she's inherently Othering the students, which goes against literally the thesis proposed in the summary.

But also The Second Sex was a major work in feminist canon? So like is it important enough to the history to read despite her actions?

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Tara Westover

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Favorite Historical Period? Fiction or Nonfiction

What is your favorite historical period to read about? I’ll go first! I am very partial to stories set in the Georgian Era in England! I also love reading nonfiction books about various aspects of life at that time. Jane Austen is one of my favorite authors!

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