Book #11 |
Book: Pocketbook of Quotes from Socrates to Lebowski | Author: Sean Thompson | |
| Source: Free BookBub download Format: Kindle |
Pages: 385 | Duration: 02/10/26 – 02/21/26 (12 days) | |
| Rating: ★★★☆☆ | Genres: nonfiction, quotations, philosophy | ||
| 📕10-word summary: Quotes by a diverse set of people: inspiration, motivation, entertainment. 🖌6-word review: Incredibly sloppy editing detracted from enjoyment. |
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| 💭A favorite quote: “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” ~Albert Einstein | |||
| 🎓Some new-to-me words: inclemency, fand, Feldwebel, obsoledge | |||
| Description:* Are you interested in learning from the greatest philosophers, artists, writers and minds of all time? Do you want to have a handy collection of quotes that you can read anytime, anywhere? Do you want to fill your mind with wisdom, inspiration, and insight? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you. This is a compact and convenient book that contains hundreds [of] quotes for all occasions. You’ll find quotes on topics such as life, knowledge, virtue, happiness, friendship, and more. This book is perfect for anyone who wants to enrich their mind and soul through the timeless teachings of the greats.*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: One of the things that stood out to me after reading so many quotes is that there are probably quotes to support whatever you believe, as many of them contradict each other. For example, there are many quotes that contend that solitude is necessary to your being, while another whole slew contend that we cannot exist in solitude as we’re all intertwined. The editing of this book (at least the kindle version I read) was just bad, bad, bad. This included many missed terminal punctuation marks (mostly periods), capitalizing the word after a semicolon in a sentence, completely wrong words (e.g., throng instead of through, near instead of never), different fonts and line spacing on the same page, and some paragraphs in black and some in a lighter (almost) gray colored font, errant spaces mid-word (e.g., “you’ re” and “you ‘ re”), and paragraph breaks (i.e., hard to tell sometimes if a paragraph break was a new paragraph in the same quote or a new quote starting). Even the blurb on Goodreads had an editing error in it — see the word “of” I have highlighted in the description above — I added it because it was missing. For posterity, of the 12-day duration reading this book, I was on a cruise for 8 days of it and didn’t read. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2026 and previous years: 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
