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Honkai Impact 3rd: Second Eruption, Volume 1
MiHoYo Comics
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For a video game tie-in novel, I'm impressed! I adore Goikeda's characterization of a teenaged Dante. This is something of a character study that contains significant parts of his backstory that are still relevant to the games today. Required reading for fans of the lore that I rarely see recommended.
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Devil May Cry, Vol. 1
Shinya Goikeda
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Devil May Cry, Vol. 1
Shinya Goikeda
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Thoughts Be Bloody
Auden Patrick
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Oh he's like, genuinely smitten with Virgil. Good for him. Living his delusions.
The poetry has been beautiful so far, though I can already tell that this is going to be a very slow and tricky read. My version includes an illustration by Doré every few pages, so those have been a treat.
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The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
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From the provocative and challenging to the emotional and quiet, Japanese literary fiction tends to be nuanced, introspective, and minimalistic. These books contain layered cultural commentary and may lean on psychological, surreal, or fantastical elements to convey their message.
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I'm grateful to this book for heightening my awareness of just how insanely special it is that we are here and conscious, even with all our physiological flaws.
The cathartic surprise of this rebuttal of God was in its anticipation of fallacies that many believers and atheists alike consider valid. Dawkins walks you through a comprehensive deconstruction of these fallacies with blunt language that quickly makes you realize how silly they are.
The God Delusion is a fantastic introduction to a nontheistic worldview, so long as the reader can tolerate Dawkins' curtness.
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The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
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The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
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The ability humans have to push the limits of our understanding is insane. What a time to be alive.
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Hmm, really don't like Dawkins' stance that the actions taken against pedophiles in the 21st century are due to "hysteria".
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So I don't have a very large TBR, and not a lot of physical books in general. I own exactly 100 books, which makes calculating a percentage easy. I currently have 19 books on my TBR, 4 of which I've started. I always see book content creators have these huge TBR's of 200-400 books and it kind of makes me wonder "Is that normal?" Because I don't know anyone in my personal life who has so many unread books. And of course these people have a channel dedicated to books and often make money off of reading. So it might be a bit of an unrealistic comparison.
So I want to know: If you aren't a content creator and reading isn't a source of money in some other way for you either, how large is your TBR? Why is it not smaller or bigger? Do you think having such a large TBR (>200 books) is wasteful?