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(DIR) Post #AUw8CRt3biIzp1Nm4G by EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu
2023-04-23T07:30:21Z
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What is the best book you have ever read? Since the very beginning of their circulation in Europe, books have represented an incomparable good. Be it for academic purposes or just leisure, books accompany us in our everyday life. Let’s celebrate #WorldBookDay with some of the most beautiful libraries in our Union! #EuropeanUnion
(DIR) Post #AUw8dxrGqaYGnVfR8S by grb090423@mastodon.social
2023-04-23T07:35:25Z
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@EU_Commission Beautiful!Where is this library?
(DIR) Post #AUw8sjRkiAPWRclzX6 by Cossty@mastodon.online
2023-04-23T07:35:40Z
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@EU_Commission The Count of Monte Cristo, is one of the best, if not the best fiction book I have read.
(DIR) Post #AUw970xwN90epjdh4a by SteveTux@mastodon.social
2023-04-23T07:38:27Z
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@EU_Commission For leisure: Walter Moers: Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher!https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_of_Dreaming_Books
(DIR) Post #AUw9cMRCadueP9GzwG by alemacilenti@mastodon.uno
2023-04-23T07:46:18Z
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@EU_Commission Not fiction, but Lisa Feldman Barrett's *How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain* gave me enormously useful insight on self and society.
(DIR) Post #AUw9qWXFqORjmArEGm by marnie@mastodon.scot
2023-04-23T07:47:59Z
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@EU_Commission The Clowns of God by Morris West was the best book ever!
(DIR) Post #AUwA3Wb0viMfjEoc1w by eingfoan@infosec.exchange
2023-04-23T07:48:30Z
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@EU_Commission @jan 1984 by George Orwell still my favorite Read it about 7 times
(DIR) Post #AUwAHZZieNrV1RuNRA by EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu
2023-04-23T07:49:32Z
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Thank you for your comment, @grb090423! It's in the Strahov Monastery in Prague, Czechia.
(DIR) Post #AUwAUkzVW8wAC1G0Yq by grb090423@mastodon.social
2023-04-23T07:55:10Z
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@EU_Commission Thank you 🙂👍It's stunning!
(DIR) Post #AUwAgjfgFZYTZghAJM by margarance@c.im
2023-04-23T07:55:32Z
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@EU_Commission I’m torn between Les Misérables, which lays bare the inequities of the human condition, and Irène Némirovsky’s Suite Française, which reminds us how many great things die with each life snuffed out by tyranny. Both moved me to laughter and tears. #WorldBookDay
(DIR) Post #AUwAvZzgVqCju988Dg by loop@mastodon.world
2023-04-23T07:56:13Z
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@EU_Commission Stiftsbibliothek in Waldsassen, Bavaria, Germany. 1720s.Ccontains many life sized oak figures with impressive, angle dependent facial features.One group illustrates the sophisticated multi step bookmaking process.The second group shows all stages of human pride, to remind the reader to be carefull ...and the non-reader to be humble.Stupidity, mockery, hypocrisy and ignorance.As part of the vivid monastery it belongs to the greater ensemble of bohemian baroque.
(DIR) Post #AUwBAr07YyFCzjcLsO by Bossito@mastodon.green
2023-04-23T08:01:03Z
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@EU_Commission do cheque books count?
(DIR) Post #AUwBP64wIjlHoNfATg by BigCaddy@mstdn.social
2023-04-23T08:04:22Z
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@EU_Commission Propeller Island by Jules Verne. It literally predicted the future of mankind.
(DIR) Post #AUwBeEQJYeCe2IsU1Q by qenen@dice.camp
2023-04-23T08:08:36Z
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@EU_Commission hm 🤔 that’s not easy to answer. I think for me it’s the complete Sherlock Holmes series.
(DIR) Post #AUwCB2Vyr3IoetAjFA by jannik@norden.social
2023-04-23T08:15:04Z
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@EU_Commission Orwell: 1984Remarque: All Quiet in the Western Front Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings
(DIR) Post #AUwDIdanV03LdNc0K8 by sudasana@mastodon.social
2023-04-23T08:27:30Z
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@EU_Commission Walden will always have a special place in my heart
(DIR) Post #AUwDjyBD41izIrg0GW by DrKerryS@mas.to
2023-04-23T08:32:30Z
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@EU_Commission Probably either Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring or Theo Colburns’s Our Stolen Future… both inspired much of my careerSilent Spring also inspired part of this new article we recently published…https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c01735
(DIR) Post #AUwE00NIfe0skCyh72 by Heliograph@mastodon.au
2023-04-23T08:34:23Z
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@EU_Commission #Papillion #TheColourPurple #Dune 📚 three favourites for #WorldBookDay
(DIR) Post #AUwEFLSqXiW8Unt3I0 by janwillemswane@mastodon.nl
2023-04-23T08:38:02Z
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@EU_Commission @marjo Without a doubt the book that is essential in European history:Primo Levi: Se questo è un uomo
(DIR) Post #AUwERoi9d546g7zgy8 by heluecht@pirati.ca
2023-04-23T08:40:22Z
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I don't know, if I could pick a single book. There are so many books with so many different stories that I all fell in love with. Be it Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett. But also Isaac Asimov, Neal Stephenson or Frank Schätzing - or many many more.
(DIR) Post #AUwFPQD5quJm45t4gi by D_70WN@chaos.social
2023-04-23T08:51:13Z
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@EU_Commission Difficult, to pick a single book. There are so many books Stephen Hawking, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Isaac Asimov, Caroline de la Motte Fouqué, Jule Verne, Robert Heinlein, Gregory Benford ... .
(DIR) Post #AUwFfACT93jz2n6MDY by A_denie@toot.io
2023-04-23T08:52:26Z
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@EU_Commission just by number of re-reads: The Master and Margarita, by Bulgakov.Best memory of reading it: Circe, by Madeleine Miller.
(DIR) Post #AUwFsjZExgfAUxDuyG by hacknorris@101010.pl
2023-04-23T08:54:10Z
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@EU_Commission best one? idk, in primary school there were few ool books i read... hobbit for example or one about magic tree... now i dont read any :( sad :(
(DIR) Post #AUwI332vavATiO9hp2 by makeElec@mastodon.social
2023-04-23T09:20:46Z
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@EU_Commission 1984 !
(DIR) Post #AUwIXL5L5gyILhj9JQ by monetsonante@mastodon.uno
2023-04-23T09:26:16Z
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@EU_Commission Cher connardVirginie Despentes
(DIR) Post #AUwJ1Qb3ADUI87uJAO by fschwic@mastodon.social
2023-04-23T09:31:39Z
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@EU_Commission Anathem by Neal Stephenson https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem_(Roman)
(DIR) Post #AUwJGTYqQN5zfT3DlI by Annevelink_AD@mastodon.green
2023-04-23T09:33:22Z
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@EU_Commission this is in the Czech Republic, right ?
(DIR) Post #AUwJnCqNbDibNPrNI0 by PJMirella@mstdn.social
2023-04-23T09:40:23Z
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@EU_Commission Too many books to mention, but Sans Famille is still one of the best ever. I read it many times. In Dutch, it’s called ‘Alleen op de Wereld’.
(DIR) Post #AUwK2ZnqWIwovX0J9M by Peace_out_art@sfba.social
2023-04-23T09:42:54Z
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@EU_Commission Not sure if *best* is the right word, but definitely the most impactful. This one changed my life. By the time I finished reading this, after a cross-country bus ride, I became a vegetarian. “How to get rid of the poisons in your body”#WorldBookDay
(DIR) Post #AUwKIqJEuwzmknRc1o by Nephrite@tech.lgbt
2023-04-23T09:46:02Z
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@EU_Commission Hard to choose, but I loved most of Iain Banks's Culture novels, and OF COURSE Terry Pratchett's Discworld series!
(DIR) Post #AUwMtYADXqDH6Dr6Jc by enidlucA@mastodon.online
2023-04-23T10:15:06Z
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@EU_Commission „The Broom of the System“ by David Foster Wallace (or „Infinite Jest“?)!
(DIR) Post #AUwODPTVew7ZtgufTM by kainisenni@vocalounge.cafe
2023-04-23T10:29:50Z
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@EU_Commission "De donkere kamer van Damokles" (The Darkroom of Damocles) by W.F. Hermans is an abslolute masterpiece.
(DIR) Post #AUwOSGkMOPqHAesd6W by breitensteinart@mastodon.art
2023-04-23T10:30:03Z
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@EU_Commission I won’t call it “best,” but the first one that came to my mind is a favorite: Shantaram.
(DIR) Post #AUwPm71UM4QQl7uxFY by annika@xoxo.zone
2023-04-23T10:47:18Z
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@EU_Commission The Long Room Library, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland #WorldBookDay
(DIR) Post #AUwQBHJrD82jvqVeSm by misterspinalzo@mastodon.world
2023-04-23T10:51:48Z
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@EU_Commission Trinity College, Dublin. The Long Room. #LongRoom #trinitycollegedublin
(DIR) Post #AUwQWlqsszuei0Cps0 by jojoc@mastodonapp.uk
2023-04-23T10:55:48Z
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@EU_Commission Too many to decide. But I’d love to read anything in that beautiful building. ❣️
(DIR) Post #AUwQm2xLZim06HVrv6 by gimulnautti@mastodon.green
2023-04-23T10:56:51Z
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@EU_Commission @juuhaa The best book I’ve read (yet, in two parts) is The Listening Society by Hanzi Freinachthttps://www.amazon.com/Listening-Society-Metamodern-Politics-Guides-ebook/dp/B074MKQ4LR
(DIR) Post #AUwR4Ci23JZXYr0XNQ by seedtopia@nerdculture.de
2023-04-23T11:00:19Z
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@EU_Commission “Cloud Atlas” by David Mitchell, with “The Overstory” by Richard Powers a close second.
(DIR) Post #AUwRVtgeN1g6fmZB6O by loop@mastodon.world
2023-04-23T11:06:53Z
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@EU_Commission This library seems more modest at first But...It's in the Francke foundations in #Halle (Saale), Germany. 1746The Francke foundations are on the german shortlist for #UNESCO world heritage site. They are an aggregate of pedagogic, #social and educational institutions developed around an orphanage. Today the city hosts the #university named after Marti-Luther.In febr. 23 Halle won the competition for the #future center #german unification and #european transformation.
(DIR) Post #AUwRkPHxfkh4jpwAZU by johnlorimer@mastodon.green
2023-04-23T11:09:28Z
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@EU_Commission Slaughterhouse V - Kurt Vonnegut. That book just blew me away.
(DIR) Post #AUwTuXnj4vK9wWkxdI by gdeihl@spore.social
2023-04-23T11:33:42Z
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@EU_Commission Probably a book that was banned in Florida.
(DIR) Post #AUwUvTIRPancDS84bQ by JorgeStolfi@mas.to
2023-04-23T11:45:08Z
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@EU_Commission Hard to pick the best, and the pleasure of reading them was much greater when I was under 20... but the one I have re-read most times may be _Gods, Graves, Scholars_ by C. W. Ceram. Runners-up are Dostoyevsky's _The Brothers Karamazov_, _Microbe Hunters_ by Paul de Kruif, _The Mysterious Island_ by Jules Verne, _Solaris_ by Stanislaw Lem, and several others that don't occur to me now...
(DIR) Post #AUwYPx67TY3pC1akq0 by filipesm@mastodon.green
2023-04-23T12:24:04Z
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@EU_Commission #DoughnutEconomics by Kate Raworth
(DIR) Post #AUwaTMrkKIbZt9cpEG by geerta@mastodon.social
2023-04-23T12:47:12Z
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@EU_Commission I like te idea of Umberto Eco’s antilibrary, where the books you would like to read are more valuable than the ones you’ve read.https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antilibrary/
(DIR) Post #AUwbzDOt9c4NkjsRd2 by Trini_Queen@mstdn.social
2023-04-23T13:04:13Z
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@EU_Commission who wouldn’t love this space?! #Paris #BibliophileLife #BookloverHeaven
(DIR) Post #AUwcbeDxs8Ghww5rwe by EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu
2023-04-23T13:11:16Z
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@Annevelink_AD That's right! The photo is from inside the Strahov Monastery in Prague, Czechia.
(DIR) Post #AUwkY5lGLatDpTU46y by steverocky@mastodonapp.uk
2023-04-23T14:40:06Z
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@EU_Commission I don't know - I have not read it yet?
(DIR) Post #AUwlV2kFCooPYk7MSu by Eserafina@nerdculture.de
2023-04-23T14:50:49Z
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@EU_Commission I could never decide on one to save my life. There are so many good ones!
(DIR) Post #AUwoVUId3fTKsg6XLs by Meowthias@mastodon.world
2023-04-23T15:24:32Z
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@EU_Commission Dune
(DIR) Post #AUwqhNyma8B8f9cfEu by RasherMurphy@mastodon.ie
2023-04-23T15:49:00Z
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@EU_Commission The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin; Beloved, Toni Morrison; ReAssembling the Social, Bruno Latour. Could never choose just one, these are just the ones that hit me today! Oh wait, Moby Dick, and.....😂
(DIR) Post #AUwrdrRrAuLYr46ZKi by guyholmes@mas.to
2023-04-23T15:59:36Z
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@EU_Commission I think it might be Moby Dick - though I would love it to be a good bit of science fiction - perhaps Project Hail Mary ?
(DIR) Post #AUwruBi9bchCKfVsEi by Annevelink_AD@mastodon.green
2023-04-23T15:59:55Z
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@EU_Commission thanks for sharing, its truly beautiful
(DIR) Post #AUwsDXpPbDWKQg8c9Q by Sfwmson@universeodon.com
2023-04-23T16:06:09Z
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@EU_Commission Too many to pick a favorite! Also, the ones I've read more than 5 times is a big list that included Stephen King's The Stand, and books I read a kid--The Hobbit, etc, Shirley Jackson's shorts, O'Henry, Poe, The Old Man and the Sea, The Things They Carried, The Little House books---no judgement, please!!...many of the books I was "forced" to read in school (I always loved them!) and so on and so on!!
(DIR) Post #AUwt4DUlvXbuiRbFPk by dasdom@chaos.social
2023-04-23T16:15:38Z
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@EU_Commission Project Hail Mary (read it two times) and listened to the audiobook at least 6 times.
(DIR) Post #AUwufoBoYsWVBpDnfc by starlinguk@mastodon.green
2023-04-23T16:33:32Z
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@EU_Commission Just ONE book?! Alright... Good Omens by Pratchett and @neilhimself
(DIR) Post #AUwxo4AVKtoEvVEokq by herrberta@mastodon.social
2023-04-23T17:08:45Z
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@EU_Commission for me at this point in time it's Octavia E. Butler – Earthseed
(DIR) Post #AUx1c7Sbfd9NThGQJk by SCampbell@mstdn.social
2023-04-23T17:51:22Z
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@EU_Commission Do Not Say We Have Nothing is a book I have read many times - each time I find something new
(DIR) Post #AUx5lcAXGXop8qav9E by johnadams@mastodon.social
2023-04-23T18:37:52Z
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@EU_Commission Cosmos - Carl Sagan.
(DIR) Post #AUx61K7i7uIDo8lPyC by maiamaia@mastdn.social
2023-04-23T18:39:12Z
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@EU_Commission war & peace
(DIR) Post #AUxPZgHEAIE9UTJNSa by Agora@mindly.social
2023-04-23T22:19:48Z
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@EU_Commission The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison!
(DIR) Post #AUyNMg9tHvhQbnVoyu by Bishopjoey@writing.exchange
2023-04-24T09:29:44Z
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@EU_Commission Go tell it on the mountain by James Baldwin is beautiful and gets a regular reread.Ulysses still near the top of the list 30 years after I first read it.
(DIR) Post #AUyYj7dmtDXDi4Otgu by jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
2023-04-24T11:36:33Z
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@EU_Commission Well, European authorities certainly did not believe books were "an incomparable good" at the beginning. European authorities then, as now, tried desperately to regulate the new medium of print, appointing censors, banning and burning books and authors as well as printers (i.e., platforms), holding intermediaries responsible. I look forward to the EU of the year 2600 celebrating #WorldNetworkDay. (I write about this in my book: https://gutenbergparenthesis.com/
(DIR) Post #AUydjppZ5lHsX84JYu by GiggleBoss@social.stlouist.com
2023-04-24T12:33:02Z
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@EU_Commission How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. Many people do themselves a disservice by prejudging the book by its title. It's a beautiful exploration of story, genre, time, regret, family, and self. Charles Yu is not just deft at the utility words or the emotion of language, but blends his skill at both to open up the universe between reality and memory.I have dozens of best/favorite books, but this is the one I mentally check in with the most.
(DIR) Post #AV7274GTXpxA7mwjWy by Laird@ieji.de
2023-04-28T13:44:00Z
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@EU_Commission