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The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

bookshelves: classics, currently-reading

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progress: — Jan 30, 2012 11:39am

Jan 30, 2012 11:38am

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Fortress of Solitude / The Devil Genghis

by Kenneth Robeson

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Nov 02, 2011 11:13am

Bill is currently reading:

My Man Jeeves

by P.G. Wodehouse

bookshelves: currently-reading

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progress: — Aug 30, 2011 06:15am

Aug 30, 2011 06:10am

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Bill is reading The Great Gatsby: Huh. Whattaya know... you read this outside of school, it suddenly becomes good. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald	My rating:
Jan 30, 2012 11:39am · like · see status
Bill gave to: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald	My rating:
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Bill marked as to-read: The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster	My rating:
Jan 25, 2012 07:48pm
Bill gave to: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (updated edition) by Anthony Bourdain read in January, 2012	My rating:
Jan 25, 2012 07:44pm
Bill gave to: The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life) by Chris Hardwick read in January, 2012	My rating:
Jan 25, 2012 07:42pm
Bill marked as to-read: Going Postal (Discworld, #33) by Terry Pratchett	My rating:
Jan 25, 2012 07:41pm
Bill gave to: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author) read in January, 2012	My rating:
Jan 18, 2012 04:47pm
Bill is on page 190 of 374 of Ready Player One Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author) progress:	My rating:
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Bill marked as to-read: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green	My rating:
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Bill marked as to-read: Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: humor , perspective , science

2,540 people liked it

“It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

tags: humor , procrastination

50 people liked it

“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

828 people liked it