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06/22
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The Reavers (Hardcover) by George MacDonald Fraser bookshelves: currently-reading |
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05/07
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover) by Dan Ariely bookshelves: currently-reading |
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11/21
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Peter and the Starcatchers (Peter and the Starcatchers, Book One) by Dave Barry bookshelves: currently-reading |
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"Synopsis: Sometime in the future, the world is overrun by zombies--people infected by an unknown virus that causes them to return as the undead and feed on human flesh--called the "Unconsecrated". Mary lives in a village surrounded by...more " | |
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gave City of Thieves (Hardcover) by David Benioff bookshelves: recommended |
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recommended for: suspense lovers; Russkies; WWII junkies
read in June, 2009
Woodge said:
"This is an excellent World War II story set in and around St. Petersburg (aka Leningrad) in 1942. Lev is arrested for looting a German corpse and Kolya is arrested for desertion. A colonel gives them a choice: die by execution or find him a dozen e...more
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gave Prador Moon: A Novel Of The Polity (Paperback) by Neal Asher bookshelves: sf |
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recommended for: sf nerds; people who eat their young
read in June, 2009
Woodge said:
"Neal Asher's brand of SF is not for the squeamish. Prador Moon is set within his Polity universe. The Polity is the collective group of worlds which is run by AI and policed by Earth Central Security agents. Unlike the first Polity novel, Gridlink...more
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marked as to-read:
The City & the City (Hardcover) by China Miéville bookshelves: to-read |
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"I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them."
— Philip Pullman
— Philip Pullman
"As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms."
— Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials)
— Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials)
"I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer."
— Philip Pullman
— Philip Pullman
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
— Isaac Asimov
— Isaac Asimov
"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."
— Christopher Hitchens
— Christopher Hitchens
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