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08/01
Mike
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Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, Book 3) by Jim Butcher bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback) by Hunter S. Thompson |
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Practical Demonkeeping
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"holy crap, this book. was. bad. so effing bad there must be a logical explanation for it. the logical explanation is: christopher moore, you used to be a very stinky writer. i'm not sure what happened between "practical demon...more " | |||
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added The Two Towers
to the book list The Movie was BETTER than the Book
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Fight Club: A Novel (Paperback) by Chuck Palahniuk bookshelves: mindless-reading |
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The Fisher King: A Novel (Paperback) by Paule Marshall |
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Human Evolution and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics) by Stephen J. Pope bookshelves: to-read |
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Mike's favorite quotes
"Never judge a book by its movie."
— J.W. Eagan
— J.W. Eagan
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)
"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."
— Terry Pratchett
— Terry Pratchett
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Mike's writing
Fishin' (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters
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updated 03/29/2008 11:24AM
description:
A number of years ago a member of the book club I belong to challenged us to write soothing that began with the phrase “That car wasn’t any good” and ended with “the oranges lay on the ground,” or something like that.
This is what I came up with.
Memoirs of an Old School Gamer (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters
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updated 03/14/2008 12:26PM
description:
Just an Idea I've been chewing on.
Mike's groups (recent posts)
Irish Lit & Times
— 149 members
— last activity 4 hours, 14 min ago
Celtic peoples and lovers of the Irish alike, gather to sing our songs of joyous melancholia! Come discuss anything related to any Irish author, and f...more
Unconventional Greats
— 67 members
— last activity 07/07/2008 05:17PM
This is a group for those of us who love great writing but aren't enamored of "The Classics". You know - Steinbeck, Hemingway, Poe, Hawthor...more
The Contemplation Congregation
— 4 members
— last activity 03/11/2008 07:08AM
A growing group of friends that once lived close, but who, although distant, stay close through this book club.
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