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Joshua Byrd

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Book lover and a book fighter.

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Joined 8 months ago

Brisbane, Australia

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Joshua Byrd's Reading Goals

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720/9,000 pages
8%

Twelve Moby-Dicks

Read 9,000 pages by . They're 1k pages behind schedule.

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What are your favorite books of all time?

When you think back on every book you've ever read, what are some of your favorites? These can be from any time of your life – books that resonated with you as a kid, ones that shaped your personal...

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Team
Solaris
Moby Dick

Joshua Byrd's Most Popular Reviews

This was OK but ultimately, personally, not as persuasive as I think the authors would have hoped, and I got slightly annoyed by some of the dialogue and silly scenarios. Although, surprisingly, a lot of the sentiments presented in this book I found having strong parallels with the climate crisis. Someone has already built a system that is already in the process of killing everyone on Earth, as we speak. The time to act is now!

Bold. Honest. Introspective. Flawed. Essential.

A slow-burn at the start, but truly gripping once we were in the thick of it all. The human mind is wonderful and strange.

Very good. I like it when The Hobbit does hobbit stuff.

This book was about how the design of everyday things largely sucks. And it was correct in its thesis.