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Why Truth Matters (Hardcover) by Ophelia Benson, Jeremy Stangroom bookshelves: put-these-down-halfway |
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Am I A Murderer?: Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman (Hardcover) by Calel Perechodnik bookshelves: put-these-down-halfway |
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"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.
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"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.
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"See "A Terrible Beauty". Still, I fully intend to pick this one up again and finish it soon.
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A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Armstrong, Karen) by Karen Armstrong bookshelves: put-these-down-halfway |
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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.
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.
I thought the new pic was LOLtagged before I enlarged it.
oh, hai ...I'm in ur bukstr
makin fun of ur buks
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.
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.
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.
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...
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....
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.
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.
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.
I thought the new pic was LOLtagged before I enlarged it.oh, hai ...I'm in ur bukstr
makin fun of ur buks
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.
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.
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.
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...
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....
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.
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