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The Tyrant's Novel 07/22 Paul is currently reading:
The Tyrant's Novel (Paperback)
by Thomas Keneally
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The Fallout: How a G... 06/25 Paul is currently reading:
The Fallout: How a Guilty Liberal Lost His Innocence (Hardcover)
by Andrew Anthony
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What is Painting?: R... 06/09 Paul is currently reading:
What is Painting?: Representation and Modern Art (Paperback)
by Julian Bell
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July 26
3884081 New comment on Koeeoaddi's review of The Paradise Trail
416390 Paul wrote: "You're fast! "

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Velvet Underground's... Paul gave 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars to:
Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series)
by Joe Harvard
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Paul Paul said: "Joe Harvard:

"The miniscule tattoo I got in 1979 caused a family furor, with dark rumblings about bikers and convicts; when my niece recently acquired skin art that would impress most Yakuza and bring a smile to the lips of a Maori headhunter...more
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The Genius of Photog... Paul added:
The Genius of Photography (Hardcover)
by Gerry Badger
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Paul Paul said: "Put down only because you have to savour all these photos slowly

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Why Truth Matters Paul added:
Why Truth Matters (Hardcover)
by Ophelia Benson, Jeremy Stangroom
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Paul Paul said: "This is also a tough proposition. I like the idea of rigorously examining something which is crashingly obvious (truth matters) but which is - we see every day - applied on ly in the most desultory fashion to human affairs. But these guys are actual ...more "
Am I A Murderer?: Te... Paul added:
Am I A Murderer?: Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman (Hardcover)
by Calel Perechodnik
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Paul Paul said: "A curious and painful memoir which is so detailed it reads almost like a novel. I may have read too much about the Holocaust. Still, I fully intend to pick this one up again and finish it soon. "
The Holocaust: The F... Paul gave 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars to:
The Holocaust: The Fate of the European Jewry, 1932-1945 (Studies in Jewish History)
by Leni Yahil
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Paul Paul said: "This is obviously the major history of the Holocaust (hence the 4 stars already) and certainly replaces Martin Gilbert's brave attempt. It's a book to read slowly. "
A Short History of N... Paul gave 3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars to:
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson
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Paul Paul said: "See "A Terrible Beauty". Still, I fully intend to pick this one up again and finish it soon. "
A Terrible Beauty Paul gave 3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars to:
A Terrible Beauty (Paperback)
by Peter Watson
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Paul Paul said: "This is the serious version of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. I'm wondering if there's any point in me reading either as every time I learn a new fact i forget an old onw. Still, I fully intend to pick this one up again and finis...more "
A History of God: Th... Paul added:
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Armstrong, Karen)
by Karen Armstrong
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Paul Paul said: "90 pages in and this turned into a real trudge. You have to be deft in your distinctions between theological ideas (which this book purports to be a history of) and religion as a sociopolitical phenomenon (the usual way of accounting for it) and KA d...more "
6369 Paul made a comment in the group True NorthWeird Reading Habits topic:
416390 Paul wrote: "All us geeky readers should have a moment's silence for Art Garfunkel who shows us all either how to...more "



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from Alisa
06/10/2008 11:13PM

132800 hehheh. this pic wins my vote. :-)

from Maya
05/06/2008 05:31PM

964939 Hello Paul,

Thanks for the add, it's nice to meet you :)
Your collections are awesome!!

Regards,
Maya

from Koeeoaddi
03/18/2008 07:52PM

321764 Harold?

from Jessica
01/15/2008 10:49AM

419287 Paul, I have thought of you nearly constantly since last night, though I must admit my thoughts have not been favorable. Basically I have been indulging elaborate revenge fantasies while THIS plays on unstoppable repeat in my poor abused head.

from Jeremy
01/13/2008 02:19AM

630905 Thanks for the friendship, Paul!

Here’s wishing you a nifty new 2008 filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats.

I thought I'd let you know that my novel “Vacation” has been nominated for the best Horror Novel of 2007 in the Preditors & Editors Readers' Poll. So far it's ranked 4th.

In case you're interested in voting, feel free to visit the website by clicking here:
http://www.critters.org/predpo...

Thanks again!

-Jeremy :)

PS—if you do decide to vote, you should know that you need to validate the vote by clicking on the validation link in the email they send you.

from Paul
12/29/2007 05:50PM

416390 Expect new photos and humorous captions as the weeks roll on. This is a new genre.

from Koeeoaddi
12/29/2007 05:46PM

321764 I thought the new pic was LOLtagged before I enlarged it.

oh, hai ...I'm in ur bukstr
makin fun of ur buks

from Paul
12/29/2007 05:42PM

416390 I figured out how to monkey around with the photos. Now a whole new vista of male vanity has opened up before me. But I have had no photos taken in the last six years for various reasons, some of them being aesthetic. I remember a good one of me stuffing my face with a grand brioche creme in Paris from 10 years ago. I can't find it though, so Helen must have it. Would like also to find a teenage me with extremely long hair, that would surely freak you out.

from Jessica
12/29/2007 05:30PM

419287 AAGHHHH! How are we supposed to recognize you when you show up with a different picture??????!!!!! Imagine if you did this in real life! It would be like Humphrey Bogart in Dark Passage!!! So confusing!!!!! This is making me remember that the Internet is not real... which I guess is good. Still, I was used to you being a certain kind of greyish rectangle with half-person, and it's going to take some adjustment to the new very tiny blueish-sort-of-two-headed-looking version.

from Paul
11/16/2007 12:31AM

416390 Ah yes I get it now. I'm in the opium den almost all the time actually.I have a job where I have to be glued to a computer screen but the compensation is that we have permanent internet connection, so every 30 minutes when normal people chat with their fellow toilers, I can swiftly trade intellectual backchat with all my invisible friends. I was never a kid who had invisible friends, but now I'm an adult I seem to have a few. Anyway, I have another question about good bookface manners and would appreciate your insight. I'll stick it on the discussion board. See you there.

from Jessica
11/15/2007 07:30PM

419287 You wrote (if I understood you correctly) in that Feedback Group that you'd been on this site for about three weeks. But really it's been at least twice as long! My murkily-made point was, we are like a bunch of drug addicts sitting around nodding, who've lost all sense of time.

Yesterday I was talking to a friend I used to g-chat with all day at work, and realized our relationship really fell off when she went on vacation and I discovered Bookface. Then I realized her vacation was in SEPTEMBER! I'd expected the novelty to wear off pretty quickly, but scarily enough, it hasn't yet...

from Paul
11/15/2007 01:05PM

416390 Hi Jessica - can you amplify this comment a little bit? I don't follow.

from Jessica
11/15/2007 11:56AM

419287 I hate to break this to you, but we have all of us been here for more than three weeks.

I imagine they never kept clocks in an opium den....

from Paul
11/03/2007 10:34AM

416390 Well, there's "into" and there's "into" - I've read a lot on this subject and raved about a few Hitler books myself, but I am a little alarmed that one of my electronic friends has given 4 stars to Mein Kampf. I have requested an explanation.

from Jessica
11/03/2007 10:17AM

419287 Have you noticed a lot of your Bookster friends are into Hitler???

















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