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08/13
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The Rachel Papers (Paperback) by Martin Amis bookshelves: currently-reading |
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The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics) by James Fenimore Cooper bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence (Hardcover) by A.J. Langguth bookshelves: currently-reading |
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read in January, 2007
Alan said:
"This was terrible. The sense of menace was wholly unconvincing and the story and writing overwrought. I stopped reading half way through, skimmed the rest and felt like I wasted a lot of time.
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Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (Paperback) by Susan Jacoby bookshelves: great-non-fiction |
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The God Delusion (Hardcover) by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads author!) bookshelves: great-non-fiction |
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Consciousness Explained (Paperback) by Daniel C. Dennett bookshelves: great-non-fiction |
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read in January, 1993
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Vintage International) by Gabriel García Márquez bookshelves: to-read |
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Alan
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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition (Paperback) by Norman Maclean |
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"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither." — John Stuart Mill | |||||||||||
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"Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment." — Mark Helprin | |||||||||||
Alan's favorite quotes
"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither."
— John Stuart Mill
— John Stuart Mill
"Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment."
— Mark Helprin
— Mark Helprin
"...if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility."
— John Stuart Mill (On Liberty)
— John Stuart Mill (On Liberty)
"One of the signs of Napoleon's greatness is the fact that he once had a publisher shot.
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— Siegfried Unseld
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— Siegfried Unseld
"Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Alan's groups (recent posts)
History is not boring
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Why do people think history is boring? I don't get it.
World War 2 buffs
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Just what the title says, mac. Probably one of the only wars in history which came as closely to being a war of good versus evil (or was it? discuss!)...more
Western Mass Goodreads
— 16 members
— last activity 14 days ago, 06:51AM
A group for residents of Western Massachusetts.
History of the American Revolution
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— last activity 21 days ago, 06:23AM
Any and all books, articles, etc relating to the history of the American Revolution
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