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Type: fiction

Status: favorite

Authors: Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman Terry Neil Pratchett Gaiman Neal Gaiman Terry Prachett Terry Pratehett

Tags: fantasy

Description: "Arizaphale had tried to explain it to him once. The whole point was that when a human"Arizaphale had tried to explain it to him once. The whole point was that when a human was good or bad it was because they wanted to be. Whereas people like Crowley and, of course, himself, were set in their ways right from the start. People couldn't become truly holy unless they also had the opportunity to be definitely wicked.
Crowley had thought about this for some time and had said, Hang on, that only works if you start everyone off equal, OK? You can't start someone off in a muddy shack in the middle of a war zone and expect them to do as well as someone born in a castle.
Ah, Arizaphale had said, that's the good bit. The lower you start, the more opportunities you have.
Crowley had said, That's lunatic.
No, said Arizaphale, it's effable."...

2005-10-31

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: William Golding

Tags: classic war adventure politics satire

2005-10-31

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Neal Stephenson

Tags: cyberpunk future scifi nerd_fiction science_fiction

2005-10-31

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Aldous Huxley

Tags: scifi classic technology social_engineering science_fiction

Description: Vat-grown kiddies and technologically determined destiny.

2005-10-31

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: J.R.R. Tolkien

Tags: fantasy magic classic

2005-10-31

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Douglas Adams

Tags: fantasy humor

2005-10-31

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Robert Jordan

Tags: fantasy epic

2005-10-31

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Authors: George Orwell Robert W. Taylor Tom G. Field blair

Tags: fiction scifi culture satire science_fiction

2005-10-31

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

Tags: fantasy

2005-10-31

  & 23 users

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Type: fiction

Status: favorite

Authors: T. H. White T.H. White H. White

Tags: fantasy magic classic arthur merlin

2005-10-31