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I just finished 1984 by George Orwell, amazing book! I know it’s well know but I’ve never gotten around to reading it until I had some free time these past few weeks. Would recommend if you’re into political fiction. As of right now I’m reading I who have never know men by Jaqueline Harpman and so far its really good! A bit sad but we shall see.
Jan 24, 2025
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"Adolf Hitler. Joseph Stalin. Benito Mussolini. Mao Zedong. Kim Il Sung. Vladimir Lenin. These cruel dictators wrote their names on the pages of history in the blood of countless innocent victims. Yet they themselves were once young people searching for their place in the world, dealing with challenges many of us face—parental authority, education, romance, loss—and doing so in ways that might be uncomfortably familiar.
Historian Brandon K. Gauthier has created a fascinating work—epic yet intimate, well-researched but immensely readable, clear-eyed and empathetic—looking at the lives of these six dictators, with a focus on their youths. We watch Lenin’s older brother executed at the hands of the Tsar’s police—an event that helped radicalize this overachieving high-schooler. We observe Stalin grappling with the death of his young, beautiful wife. We see Hitler’s mother mourning the loss of three young children—and determined that her first son to survive infancy would find his place in the world.
The purpose isn’t to excuse or simply explain these horrible men, but rather to treat them with the empathy they themselves too often lacked. We may prefer to hold such lives at arm’s length so as to demonize them at will, but this book reminds us that these monstrous rulers were also human beings—and perhaps more relatable than we’d like."
Mar 4, 2024
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had to read it for a class project in 10th grade and it changed my entire taste in literature. it’s a nonlinear multidimensional journey through a prisoner of war’s life and mind affected by postwar trauma. super funny, super important.
Mar 20, 2025
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not every moment needs to be filled with conversation sometimes its nice to sit with someone in silence and enjoy their presense
Mar 28, 2025
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complimenting strangers is such a fulfilling experience thats adds some positivity to both you and a strangers day, i think a lot of people are afraid of the other person thinking that they're weird or smth but how many times have you received a passing compliment and thought it was weird prolly not very often not to mention you'll prolly never see them again and you only live once
Mar 26, 2025
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there's a deep sincerity that comes with talking to someone new to a scene or meeting new people in a hobby or space you enjoy that i feel is lost in the cynicism and inherent negativity of most social media platforms (present company excluded) and i think getting outside and meeting new people in your community is a really beautiful thing that more people should do
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