Lexellent Reads

Hi. I'm Lex. I will be taking you through my 2017 reads.

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This is an excellent read when you’ve come upon a worthy opponent.

“Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.“

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This is an excellent read for when you are an amazing woman and you want to be inspired by another amazing woman.

"Science has taught me that everything is more complicated than we first assume, and that being able to derive happiness from discovery is a recipe for a beautiful life."

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This is an excellent read when you realized you've been giving way too many f*cks. 

"We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It's nature's preferred agent for inspiring change. We have evolved to always live with a certain degree of dissatisfaction and insecurity, because it's the mildly dissatisfied and insecure creature that's going to do the most work to innovate and survive."

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This is an excellent read when you are feeling depressed about the future of our economy and well, humanity, and don’t want to be made to feel better about it.  Also, if you have any interest in better understanding the potential uses for sexbots,

“She did love Stan, but it was different. A different kind of love. Trusting, sedate. It went with pet fish in fishbowls – not that they had one of those – and with cats, perhaps. And with eggs for breakfast, poached, snuggled inside their individual poachers. And with babies.”  Page 53

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This is an excellent read for when you want to feel excitedly uncomfortable.

“A decaying Ferris wheel stood abandoned in the desert like an open mouth, a last, cheap laugh.” Page 210

“The tide was coming in with all the medusas floating in its turbulence. The tendrils of the jellyfish in limbo, like something cut loose, a placenta, a parachute, a refugee severed from its place of origin.” Page 218