Stories & Narratives

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“What do you think the enemy is afraid of?” “You! Scientists! The odd thing is that the less practical your research is, the more they’re afraid of you—like abstract theories, the kind of thing Yang Dong worked on. They are more frightened of such work than you are of the universe winking at you. When a scientist dies, another will take his place. But if his thoughts are confused, then science is over.”

⭐️ The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin

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“The arrival is inevitable: Death. A unanimous end, a unified destination. A noun without regard. Our eulogy. Written. Lived. The approach is relative: Life**. A singular procession, our personal journey. A verb with regard. Our résumé. Write it. Live it.”

Greenlights

Matthew McConaughey

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“He was not the strongest, nor the fastest. But he was the bravest. And sometimes, that is enough.”

⭐️ Watership Down

Richard Adams

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“The greatest legislative victories are rarely loud. They are shaped in whispers, promises, and the quiet pressure of a hand on a shoulder.”

Master of the Senate

Robert A Caro

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"But he was still hungry :)."

⭐️ A Very Hungry Caterpillar

Eric Carle

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“Stillness is the altar of spirit.”

Autobiography Of a Yogi

Parahamahnsa Yogananda

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“Birnbaum and Luke both believed in the importance of—to borrow the phrase Jay Rubin uses in his book about Murakami—the “music of words.” But they didn’t always see or hear things the same way. They listened to different music, read different authors, and had lived in different parts of the world.”

Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami

David Karashima

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“The race isn’t about running. It’s about believing you can run that fast.”

⭐️ The Perfect Mile

Neal Bascomb

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“Civilization begins when you stop killing each other over your differences and start killing each other over resources.”

The Lessons Of History

Ariel Durant, Will Durant

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“Peace is not something that happens when you achieve your goals, but something that happens within you when you cease to seek.”

Siddharta

Hermann Hesse

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Nagabumi II: Buddha, Pedang, dan Penyamun Terbang

Seno Gumira Ajidarma

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A really different reading experience. Seno Gumira di buku ini bekerja benar-benar sangat keras untuk membuat pembaca bisa mendapatkan gambaran akurat tentang apa yang terjadi di Jawa pada abad ke 7-9. Penuh dengan citation, istilah jawa kuno, dan referensi prasasti dan penelitian yang membuat buku ini seperti fisi arkeologi dan fiksi.

Nagabumi I: Jurus Tanpa Bentuk Seno Gumira Ajidarma

Seno Gumira Ajidarma

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“Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it. You could see it, too, as a kind of double-edged sword. It protects me, but at the same time steadily cuts away at me from the inside.”

What I'm Talking About When I Talk About Running

Haruki Murakami

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"The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo."

The Ride Of a Lifetime

Robert Iger

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Semua hal yang terjadi sekali, tidak akan terjadi lagi. Tapi semua hal yang terjadi dua kali, pasti akan terjadi untuk ketiga kalinya.

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

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Seperti ratusan ribu mahasiswa lain di era 2000 an, saya mengidolakan dan mencoba meniru gaya menulis GM yang khas. Dari dia saya jadi paham bahwa semua yang ada di bawah matahari terhubung. Politik dan bahasa, filsafat dan teknologi, mitos dan puisi, semuanya bisa membantu untuk mengerti yang lain. Kalau spesialis itu overrated, kalau saya boleh mengikuti rabbit hole yang random, terasa sia-sia, tapi menarik.

In Other Words

Goenawan Mohamad

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“The night was cold, chilling the sweat on his face, but the air was as sweet and crisp as the first bite of a fall apple. Above him was a half-moon and what seemed like a trillion stars. To match the trillion pebbles, just as mysterious, that we walk over everyday, he thought. Mystery above, mystery below. Weight, mass, reality: mystery all around.”

⭐️ Elevation

Stephen King

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Don't Panic! Saya baru membacakan buku ini 42 tahun sejak buku ini pertama kali diterbitkan dan masih tertawa terpingkal-pingkal dengan humor dan komedi di dalamnya. Penuh dengan guyonan comic kering khas Inggris, Douglas Adams membawa pembacanya ke dalam petualangan alien, manusia bumi, dan peran tikus dalam menjawab pertanyaan paling penting dalam sejarah kosmos. Membaca buku ini mirip dengan Roller coaster komedi.

⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adam

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Wonderfully narrated and written. Kekuatan di Audiobook ini ada di skill narratornya – ceritanya sendiri walaupun engaging, tapi untuk ukuran novel detektif, cukup predictable.

⭐️ The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey

James Lecesne

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“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

Walter Isaacson

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“You can't control the events that happen to you, but you can control your interpretation of them. So why not choose the story that serves your life the best?”

I Can't Make This Up

Kevin Hart

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“When you grow up in a family where every action is questioned, it is easy to forget that there are things worth questioning.”

⭐️ Educated

Tara Westover

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Coming of the age book. Wally Roux adalah jenius cilik yang tidak pernah fit in dengan lingkungannya dan menemukan pelarian di memperbaiki lubang di kuantum fisik.

Wally Roux Quantum Mechanics

Nick Carr

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Novel audio tentang masa depan di mana orang akan kembali hidup jika dia mati bukan karena kondisi alami. Kombinasi unik antara fantasi dan cerita detektif ala film noir, membuat buku ini sangat menarik untuk didengarkan.

The Dispatcher

John Scalzi

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“Life takes you down many paths, but the best ones lead to the woods.”

⭐️ A Walk In The Woods

Bill Bryson

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“The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll have with yourself.”

Can't Hurt Me

David Goggins

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“Success is boring. Failure is where the good stories come from.”

Failure Is An Option

H Job Benjamin

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“Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared.”

⭐️ The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas

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“Sometimes, in order to remember who you are, you need to forget who they told you to be.”

The Book Of M

Peng Sheperd

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Alienation and loneliness became a cable that stretched hundreds of miles long, pulled to the breaking point by a gigantic winch. And through that taut line, day and night, he received indecipherable messages. Like a gale blowing between trees, those messages varied in strength as they reached him in fragments, stinging his ears.

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki

Haruki Murakami

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Buku yang memulai kecintaan saya terhadap genre Zombie. Konyol, cerdas, brilliant, glorious, jenius, dan juga timeless.

⭐️ The Zombie Survival Guide

Max Brooks

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“I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me.”

Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami