I wish more History lessons were exactly like this.
“So we’ve got the Greeks, the Romans, the Starks, Lannisters, Baratheons, Targaryens, all headed for a big blow-out right in Season 2.”
30 Books to read before you’re 30
1. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
2. 1984 by George Orwell
3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
4. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
5. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
6. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
7. The Rights of Man by Tom Paine
8. The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
10. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
11. The Wisdom of the Desert by Thomas Merton
12. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
13. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
14. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
15. The Lord of the Ringsby J.R.R. Tolkien
15. The Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin
16. David Copperfieldby Charles Dickens
17. Four Quartets by T.S. Eliott
18. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
19. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
20. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
21. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
22. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
23. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
24. The Republic by Plato
25. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
26. Getting Things Done by David Allen
27. How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
28. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
29. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
30. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
I’ve only read 13, but there’s probably only 4-5 more I’d care to read. It’s a very well-rounded list but I could do without a self-help book.
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I love this show.
Okay, done. I’m also sick of these idiots charging a minimum of $50 postage for tiny accessory items worth $12.
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Is it weird to talk to someone you haven’t spoken to in over a year, and feel like that was the most honest conversation you’ve had with anyone in a long time?
This is SO Leslie! Ha ha perfect.
(And… you know. Lots of other girls who exist without Ryan Goslings in their beds.)
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Ostracize
“Ostron” is a Greek word for pottery. Periodically the Greeks would hold an election to determine if someone was a danger to their community. Everyone would write their votes on broken pieces of pottery (“ostron”) and if the vote was successful, the person was banished or “ostracized.”
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