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WeAreLegion
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Mehso-so

The Department of Truth is a secret organization responsible for keeping dangerous conspiracy theories from becoming real — by the percentage of the population that believes in them. The art is dark, messy, and beautiful. As a fan of the X-FILES, I should be all over this, but despite the great concept, the characters are generic and the narrative is too familiar. Worth checking out if you‘re a fan of these themes. If not, you won‘t miss much.

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starlight97
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How interesting that in Hungarian we actually call it röntgen instead of X-ray. It's like for blood pressure we use the abbreviation RR after Riva-Rocci (easy to confuse with respiratory rate if your brain is half English 😄)
#medical

julesG We call it R/röntgen in German too. 2w
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Wjfost11
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Pickpick

So good, I'll just say the 3 letter government entities should probably be renamed DOA.

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DieAReader
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Bailedbailed
DieAReader @StayCurious 🧐Silly question: do DNFs count as a “finished” read? 2mo
Andrew65 Oh no! Grrrrrrrr. 🥰🎄🎄🎄 2mo
DieAReader @Andrew65 😬Agreed. I might check out the Netflix show out of curiosity🤷🏻‍♀️ 2mo
CoverToCoverGirl That bad!? Yikes! 😳 2mo
DieAReader @CoverToCoverGirl 😬it might just be me - tbd🤞🏻 2mo
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chlolovesbooks
Angels & Demons | Dan Brown
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4/5

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BookishTrish
Angels and Demons | Dan Brown
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Pickpick

I think this was my third or fourth reading of this one. I must remember not to give it away again because the time will come when I‘ll want to read it again. With the exception of the relentless sexualization of grieving Vittoria, I find this book so much fun.

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Coffeymuse
Angels and Demons | Dan Brown
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You know, I don't think I've ever seen the movies.

I did read “DaVinci Code“ and “Angels and Demons“ but nothing else by Brown.

But, hey, there's a professor in these books and movies!

#SchoolSpirit
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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Eggs I saw one of them but I don‘t even remember the title 😳 6mo
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Bigwig
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Pickpick

This book makes one heck of a convincing case that the “fatal” JFK shot was the result of a secret service accidental discharge in Dealey Plaza. I checked it out because the author was a lifelong ballistics expert who spent much of his life trying to prove the Warren Commission right…only to finally determine that the evidence pointed to a horrible accident (amidst Oswald‘s attack) that was hushed up to avoid loss of institutional confidence.

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TheSpineView
Angels and Demons | Dan Brown
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great cover 💙🖤 7mo
Eggs Dramatic 👼😇 7mo
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The_Penniless_Author
The Crying of Lot 49 | Thomas Pynchon
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Pynchon is such a recognizable figure that it can be hard to remember that I'd never actually read anything that he'd written (until now). Rating a Pynchon novel feels like a loaded exercise, like I'm wading into a generations-old war between one side that believes he's the greatest writer ever to put pen to paper and another side that believes that everyone from the first group is a pretentious know-nothing masquerading as an intellectual. 👇

The_Penniless_Author This is the type of book where it helps to have a guide. I am glad that before I read this, I had the benefit of getting the great Sarah Churchwell's insights into the book's larger themes, recurring references, imagery, etc., a lot of which was hiding in plain sight (she's also a guest on the episode of Backlisted where they discuss this novel). In the end, I fall squarely into the "this is a masterpiece" camp. Like all great novels, at its ? 8mo
The_Penniless_Author ...root it's existentialist - is there a point to all this, or is it just meaningless, random occurrences? Are those moments of epiphany or paranoia where we think we perceive the hidden architecture beneath day to day life real or a trick of the mind? Given how surreal and conspiracy-minded real life has become I can't believe postmodernism ever went out of vogue (or maybe, on second thought, that's exactly why it did 🤔). 8mo
Suet624 This is quite the review! And I have to admit i haven‘t read any Pynchon. 7mo
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