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Dustin rated Fall of Crysin: 3.0 stars
Dustin rated The Eyre Affair: 3.0 stars
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
The Eyre Affair
Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected …
Dustin rated Where the Axe Is Buried: 4.0 stars
Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler
In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a man who has downloaded his …
Dustin started reading Obstetrix by Naomi Kritzer
Obstetrix by Naomi Kritzer
O Lord, deliver us.
Doctor Liz has just been acquitted for performing the last abortion in North Dakota when …
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
Spin is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer Robert Charles Wilson. It was published in 2005 and won the …
Dustin rated Doppelganger: 4.0 stars
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet …
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What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who …
Aimé Césaire charged that Europeans tolerated “Nazism before it was inflicted on them.” Until these methods came home to European soil,“they absolved it … shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples.”
— Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
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W. E. B. Du Bois, in The World and Africa, published soon after the end of the Second World War,wrote, “There was no Nazi atrocity—concentration camps, wholesale maiming and murder, defilement of women or ghastly blasphemy of childhood—which Christian civilization of Europe had not long been practicing against colored folk in all parts of the world in the name of and for the defense of a Superior Race born to rule the world.” What was new: it was now fellow Europeans who were being cast as the inferior race.
— Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
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we live under a system structurally designed to protect the propertied classes against any and all challenges from below, sometimes through violent repression,sometimes through symbolic appropriation, often through a combination of the two.
— Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
Dustin quoted Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
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“Instead of figuring out how to have a world where everyone can thrive, they want their kids to thrive in a world that is falling apart.”
— Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
Dustin quoted Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
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“He who builds children palaces tears down prison walls.”
— Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
Dustin quoted Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
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Jean Paul, the German writer credited with coining the term Doppelgänger in his three-volume 1796–97 novel Siebenkäs, defined it as meaning “Leute,die sich selber sehen” (people who see themselves).
— Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
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In his novel The Double, José Saramago includes an epigraph:“Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.”
— Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
Dustin rated The Handmaid's Tale: 4.0 stars
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale is a radical departure for Margaret Atwood. Set in the near future, in a locale that oddly …