


"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say." "Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice." The writing is done with the eloquence of a great bard or statesman - behold, just two quotes among thousands: By the time I finished book 11 in February of 2019, I felt like my whole entire life (and language) had been upgraded in a deep and meaningful way. I didn't make it halfway through the first book before I realized that there was simply too much that was quotable. When I first started reading the series in March of 2018, it was my intent to keep a little book of quotes.

But, forgiving those shortcomings, the work.the work is amazing. Yes, the books have a fair share of misogyny and racism, homophobia and anti-communist propagandizing as one might expect from anything published during it's tenor. As full of wonder and quotable prose as any other work you will ever read.
