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String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis

by David Foster Wallace

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Modern Music Masters - Oasis

by Tom Boniface-Webb (Goodreads Author)

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Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996

by Andrew Earles

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We Owe You Nothing: The Collected Interviews by Daniel Sinker

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if you boil punk down to remove all the hair dye, power chords, typewriters, colored vinyl, leather jackets, glue sticks, show flyers, and combat boots, that question is what’s left at the bottom of the pot. Punk has always been about ...more

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Elliot’s Quotes

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be”
― Abraham Maslow

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“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

tags: music

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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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“One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

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Reading Challenge 2016 — 14 members — last activity May 12, 2016 06:54AM
This group is an open invitation to all of my family and friends - and all of their family and friends - to READ in 2016! Using the Popsugar 2016 Read ...more

Random House of Canada Ltd — 388 members — last activity Jan 25, 2016 07:29AM
This group is for people who love books - featuring the best of Doubleday Canada, Knopf Canada, M&S and Random House of Canada. ...more

Family Reading Bingo — 4 members — last activity Mar 30, 2015 12:16PM
The purpose of this group is to gather family members for the Reading Bingo Challenge. Talk about the challenge, which spaces you filled with which bo ...more

Reading Bingo 2017 — 23 members — last activity Feb 15, 2017 10:08AM
Hey Friends and Family! Every year I try a version of a Reading Challenge and I think that Bingo is the best! The purpose of this group is to play the ...more

Lit Lawvers — 676 members — last activity Apr 14, 2025 11:06PM
The Goodreads group for lawyers, law students, legal administrators, legal secretaries, paralegals and others in the legal profession.

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