false 77345 male Sweet Home, OR 05/2007 12/2009 5 251 248 true 5670769 read 1 true 154342 currently-reading 2 true 154341 to-read 125 false 4666262 ebooks 78 false 210567 fiction 55 false 207936 sci-fi 53 false 210560 fantasy 33 false 4179963 history 27 false 210608 non-fiction 21 false 1816439 political 19 false 4157594 northwest 15 false 8391482 gift 8 false 4154251 scotland 7 false 5206077 food 7 false 1339766 technical 7 false 4179982 southwest 6 false 210667 self-help 4 false 6442441 poetry 1 false 7264733 pulitzer Where Rolls The Oregon (Paperback) by Dallas Lore Sharp]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79482295 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31rvBUVx8WL._SL75_.jpg 77345 ben http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1181482581p2/77345.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/77345-ben Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:31:56 -0800 more...]]> Joan of Arc (Paperback) by Mark Twain]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79484997 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178728811s/826706.jpg 77345 ben http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1181482581p2/77345.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/77345-ben Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:21:03 -0800 "I will tell you nothing more than I have told you; no, not even if you tear the limbs from by body. And even if in my pain I did say something otherwise, I would always say afterward that it was the torture that spoke and not I."
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I had always suppose...more...]]> The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 6 (Paperback) by Anthony Boucher]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79482644 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184005592s/1476247.jpg 77345 ben http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1181482581p2/77345.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/77345-ben Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:51:26 -0800
The Cosmic Expense Account reminds me a little of the Church of the Subgenius.

The Man Who Came Early is a time travel story where someone from the future is thrown into the past. Instead of being superior in every way, the man from the future finds h...more...]]> The Age of Chivalry (Bulfinch's Medieval Mythology) by Thomas Bulfinch]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79482003 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175219374s/495194.jpg 77345 ben http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1181482581p2/77345.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/77345-ben Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:23:35 -0800
"So, wh...more...]]> Thrice Upon a Time (Paperback) by James P. Hogan]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79420695 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XjKwDOrML._SL75_.jpg 77345 ben http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1181482581p2/77345.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/77345-ben Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:52:19 -0800 more...]]> The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion: A New Abridgement from the Second and Third Editions (Oxford World's Classics) by James George Frazer]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78022096 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172153208s/143312.jpg 77345 ben http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1181482581p2/77345.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/77345-ben Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:51:29 -0800 more...]]> Orion Shall Rise (Hardcover) by Poul Anderson]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77712182 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1233028666s/3086593.jpg 77345 ben http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1181482581p2/77345.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/77345-ben Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:53:04 -0800 more...]]> Looking Backward (Signet Classics) by Edward Bellamy]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74953082 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173488024s/296977.jpg 77345 ben http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1181482581p2/77345.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/77345-ben Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:24:06 -0800 more...]]> Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes (Paperback) by Thomas Bulfinch]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74909382 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SbFt4xJLL._SL75_.jpg 77345 ben http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1181482581p2/77345.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/77345-ben Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:58:48 -0800
It was interesting to learn some more etymology. Being alone in a wilderness at night might cause a type of fear described as panic. This refers to the god Pan, who is associated with wilderness.

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