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Richard and 10 other people liked Dan Schwent's review of Three:

" When he runs into a woman and child on the run, gun-toting bounty hunter Three finds himself escorting them across a post-apocalyptic wasteland and protecting them from genetically altered warriors, brain-hackers, and the Weir, glowing-eyed ghoul-... " Read more of this review »

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Richard and 5 other people liked Jason Koivu's review of The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories:

The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories by Rudyard Kipling

" Fantastical stories and powerful imagery. Sure, technological advances have numbed us to the violence of war, but Kipling's writing loses little of its punch due to the passing time. The adventurous spirit imbued in his work still thrills the soul... " Read more of this review »

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Richard and 5 other people liked Jason Koivu's review of Monk's Hood (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #3):

" This is a yeoman's work mystery with a middle ages veil draped over it. Seriously, Ellis Peters' Monk's Hood felt like a throwaway whodunnit set in the medieval period. I know these are very popular, popular enough to have a tv series made from th... " Read more of this review »

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"Tanja wrote: "I downloaded six books yesterday, haven't read a single book from my latest "physical" book delivery, bought 60 used books from a Norweg...more "

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Richard and 26 other people liked Dan Schwent's review of Soul Circus: A Derek Strange Novel:

" Derek Strange is hired to find evidence to keep Granville Oliver from getting the chair. Terry Quinn is helping his girlfriend find a missing girl. How will their cases intersect with a brewing turf war between two gangs?

In this Strange and Quinn... " Read more of this review »

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Richard took the Never-Ending Book Quiz

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Richard made a comment on mark monday's review of The Mountains Of Mourning

"Julio-Alexi wrote: "That show was pretty rad in its day.

Well, no, not really, ever, at all.

But I spent many a summer afternoon in an orchestral fugue...more "

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"Joy wrote: "Ha, thanks for the laugh Richard!"

De rien, ma amie."

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Quotes Richard Likes

“I was always useless at flirting, and simply did not know what needed to be done in order to snare my target... I always ended up resorting to jokes, and most men don't like funny women. They like to do the jokes.”
― Joan Sims, High Spirits

tags: comediennes, flirting, romantic-failures, womanly-wiles

1 person liked it

“The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.”
― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

1,974 people liked it

“What an awful thing then, being there in our house together with our daughter gone, trying to be equal to so many sudden orders of sorrow, any one of which alone would have wrenched us from our fragile orbits around each other.”
― Paul Harding, Enon

tags: depression, grief, grieving, loss, loss-of-a-child, sadness

3 people liked it

“Comes a day when everything you thought you had put behind you sets up its tent in the middle of what you were still hoping you could call tomorrow and yells out, ‘Right this way.’

Well, here I come.”
― Laird Hunt, Kind One

tags: life-lessons, memory, truth

1 person liked it

“I was woken by a shell-burst in the trench of sleep. Heart skipping, with eyes fighting light, my thoughts sprang up like a field of starlings startled by a farmer's gunshot, a thousand separate, autonomous specks that swirled into a single united black shape.”
― Will Wiles, Care of Wooden Floors

tags: depression, morning-thoughts, rude-awakening, sadness

1 person liked it

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Richard’s Writing

Lovecraft Universe Quantum Physics Bizarro NaNovel (Parenting & Families)

1 chapters — updated May 31, 2012 10:32am

Description: HP Lovecraft III can stop the cuttlefish from bringing the Apocalypse to humanity. Trouble is, he's addicted to the sexual pleasure the cuttlefish bring him. Humanity's very survival...multiple orgasms...let me think....

Alexander in India: An Operatic Romance (Gay & Lesbian)

3 chapters — updated Nov 02, 2011 08:42pm

Description: NaNoWriMo 2011