It happens with genre stuff on IMDb too, they don't weigh votes equally, so accounts with broad & regular voting histories carry more weight than focused genre-fan votes. Not sure if goodreads does something similar.
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My apologia for Vijay Anand's Guide. Ever since @MrNarci's Bollywood bracket, I've wanted to write this.
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Rahul retweeted
Are we a civilised country? Think hard. And go ahead- call me anti national- but if you are silent about such law and order, or human rights, it is you who are anti India!! @India_NHRC
For context, he was acquitted in 2002 for saying Islam is a stupid religion, as it did not qualify as incitement to violence. This time, the court ruled otherwise, and I agree with them. Anyone can make up their own mind by looking at the interview.
Michel Houllebecq, the author of “Submission” - the international best-selling book depicting France folding to Muslim immigration - was just criminally charged by France for hate speech.
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Rahul retweeted
Sharing my Vonnegut postcard.
Me (sophomore in college naively wanting to be a writer): "What's the secret to it all?"
Vonnegut: "Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism."
Happy Vonnegut day to all who celebrate.
India joins an elite group of 4 countries with 100 or more grandmasters.
Notably, India is the only country whose first grandmaster, Anand, remains an active elite player, currently ranked world No. 14 in live Elo ratings.
Anish Giri on India's 100 Chess Grandmasters - "They timed it so well with Diwali - they are so good they can choose and time it.... the one who became the first Grandmaster, @vishy64theking Anand, is still very much up for it!"
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Mohammad Sharif, who spent 17 to 18 years in jail before the Allahabad High Court acquitted him in the 2008 Rampur CRPF attack case, was shot dead in Rampur moments after leaving a police station that had repeatedly summoned him, prompting Rihai Manch to demand an impartial probe into possible police involvement.
@ghazalaahmad5 reports:
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None of these writers are as influential as Tulsidas.
The three most influential writers of every century:
16th century
William Shakespeare
Miguel de Cervantes
Michel de Montaigne
17th century
John Milton
Molière
John Donne
18th century
Voltaire
Jonathan Swift
Samuel Johnson
19th century
Leo Tolstoy
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Charles Dickens
20th century
George Orwell
Virginia Woolf
Gabriel García Márquez
21st century
J.K. Rowling
Haruki Murakami
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This is my selection based on literary influence, cultural impact and enduring readership.
Who deserves to be replaced? And which writer have I criminally left out?
When music videos aspired to be cinema.
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this sequence at the end where he is conflicted was so incredibly done, jaw droppingly beautiful!
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