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The Way of All Flesh
The Way of All Flesh | SAMUEL BUTLER
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Leftcoastzen
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#wonderousWednesday
“It is involved in the very essence of things that rich men who die old shall have been mean.”
I love it!😁

Eggs Perfect 🤩 📚🤗 8mo
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Leniverse
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"A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends."

(Samuel Butler, inveterate bachelor (read: closeted and repressed in the Victorian era) instinctively disliked the women his male friends got attached to before he had even met them.)

#InQuotes #Marriage
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Well done 👍🏼 💕 14mo
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shawnmooney
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Leftcoastzen
The Way of All Flesh | SAMUEL BUTLER
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Sticker removal with blow dryer . Took this sticker off with 16 to 20 second blasts from a hair dryer,peeling slowly & gently.This is an older book , the sticker did leave a little residue, usually this can be removed by gently rubbing with art gum eraser or dab it with blank ,white paper. @Branwen

Aims42 Nice!! I haven‘t tried the hair dryer trick yet 👍🏻 3y
Elizabeth2 What a great tip! 3y
plemmdog Thanks for the tip! 3y
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Leftcoastzen @Aims42 Yes, and the newer the book , usually the cleaner the result as new jackets are coated. Really old books & matte finish, it‘s harder to get a good result. 3y
Aims42 @Leftcoastzen That‘s great! I‘ve been peeling off as much as I can of the sticker with my nails (which are non-existent) and using Goo-Off for the residue. Your tip seems more time efficient 🥳 3y
reading_rainbow This is excellent thank you 🙏🏽 3y
Leftcoastzen @Aims42 I love goo gone , though on some finishes it leaves an oil stain in place of the residue. Usually on older books. 3y
Aims42 @Leftcoastzen Yes, that‘s what it‘s called 😆 And yeah, I‘ve noticed the oil stains sometimes. I‘ll give the hairdryer a try next time 🙌🏻 3y
Branwen Ooooooh! I see how it works now! Thank you so much! I'm nervous and excited to try it! 3y
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twohectobooks
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Mehso-so

This one was a great big “meh” for me. It‘s the story of Ernest Pontifex, who emerges from a childhood of startling abuse to become a pastor and then gets imprisoned due to a misunderstanding. It‘s an attack on Victorian hypocrisy but like.. you better know your Victorian hypocrisy REALLY well to catch the attack part. I hate to say it, but I‘m not sure this is all that relevant to a modern reader. #modernlibrarytop100

Emilymdxn I find that a lot with satire or books written to attack or react to really specific things. You can admire what it was getting at so much but also just be bored by it 4y
twohectobooks @Emilymdxn so true! Satire can age pretty quickly. I think my review is a bit more negative than I actually felt about the book too. In the context of its position on the #modernlibrarytop100 list I just think it doesn‘t have a lot to say to a 20th century reader. Ah well! 4y
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Leftcoastzen
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#DearDecember #greencovers Tried to find some green I haven‘t posted before!

Eggs Beautiful 💚📚💚 4y
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twohectobooks
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Had to stop reading only three pages from the end last night because I just couldn‘t keep my eyes open any longer. Will be finishing after work tonight.

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twohectobooks
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I haven‘t had as much reading time as usual on the past few weekends because I‘ve been engaged in a big organizing project (as is evident in the background of this photo). Because of this I feel like I‘ve been reading both of these books for about a hundred years. Hope to make some progress this afternoon (on the books and the organizing)!

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twohectobooks
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...He did not say smart things himself and did not want other people to say them. Besides they talked about music, and he hated music, or pictures, and he hated pictures, or books, and except the classics he hated books; and then sometimes he was wanted to dance with them, and he did not know how to dance, and did not want to know.

(The fact that I can relate to this attitude may have something to do with the fact that I‘m still a spinster.)

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gradcat
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Leftcoastzen 🤗🎻 5y
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Leftcoastzen
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#QuotsyMar19 #solo Don‘t know if the quote is in this book but ,hey, I‘m always learning.😀🎻

Severnmeadows What a wonderful book that is 5y
gradcat Oopsy...I think we have more in common than we first thought...check my #QuotsyMar19 post! 😂 5y
Leftcoastzen @Severnmeadows I picked up a copy this weekend, since I haven‘t read it. 5y
Severnmeadows “I should prescribe for Mr. Pontifex a course of the larger mammals.” 😊 Brilliant book. (edited) 5y
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Lcsmcat
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We went looking for egg cups and found books instead. 🤷🏻‍♀️ #bookhaul

MaGoose Wow, what a wonderful haul.👌 6y
JessNevertheless Ooo that Three Musketeers! 💛 6y
Lcsmcat @JessNevertheless It has amazing illustrations too. I‘ll be sure to post them when I read it. 6y
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Lcsmcat @MaGoose Thanks. The antique store had so many, including a two volume War and Peace, but I exercised a little restraint. 😉 6y
LeahBergen Awesome! 6y
MaGoose @Lcsmcat I would never have been able to pass up the War and Peace! Restraint, what restraint! 6y
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BarbaraBB
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Pickpick

I rather dreaded starting this book, but then liked it right from page 1. It is the story of Ernest, a boy growing up in the Victorian time in a very religious family. Mentally abused by his parents, he struggles his way through life. The book is sad, amusing, satiric and much more. Butler's view and language make this book kind of ageless: written and situated in the 19th century, I can easily connect to it 2 centuries later.
#1001books

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Meghanka
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GBS on Butler- because he wanted to carry on Butler's "work of demonstrating the falsehood and imposter of our 'secondary education' and the mischief of treating children as wild beasts to be tamed and broken instead of as human beings to be let develop.

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BookBrat
The Way of All Flesh | SAMUEL BUTLER

Reading this book and can't help but think of the lyrics from the musical "She Loves Me" - makes me giggle.

Then all of a sudden, he said that I
couldn't go wrong with "The Way of all Flesh."
Of course it's a novel, but I didn't know,
or I certainly wouldn't have smacked him!

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V-Onion
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$4 worth of finds from the library book store @Born.A.Reader. And Archer lol

Born.A.Reader @V-Onion The next time we book shop, we'll have to go to another store I've frequented for years. Run by a sweet old lady. Her prices are a little higher, but she does trades as well and has a fabulous selection! 7y
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