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Jim is Currently Reading

Jim is currently reading

Germany 1866-1945 (History of Modern Europe)

by Gordon A. Craig

bookshelves: deutschland, history, non-fiction, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in October 2010

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Jim said: " Fourth reading. Probably a must-read for students of modern German history. (Actually, there's no "probably" about it.) ...more "

Feb 04, 2017 02:53PM · see review

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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

bookshelves: currently-reading, fiction, this-sceptred-isle

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Jan 02, 2017 04:58PM

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Mythago Wood (Mythago Wood, #1)

by Robert Holdstock

bookshelves: fantasy-sci-fi-and-horror, this-sceptred-isle, fiction, favorites, currently-reading

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read in January 2010

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Jim said: " I would classify this book as high concept fantasy. Certainly, it is not to everyone's taste. I can sympathize with this, as sometimes I feel like I admire this book more than enjoy it.

Holdstock works through a lot of interesting ideas. The title My ...more "

Feb 05, 2017 09:37PM · see review

Jim’s Quotes

“We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!”
― Joe Strummer

tags: the-clash

45 likes

“Fourth Doctor: You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don't alter their views to fit the facts; they alter the facts to fit their views.”
― Chris Boucher

tags: doctor-who

560 likes

“Look, PETA! If God hadn't wanted us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them so darn tasty!”
― Stephen Colbert, I Am America

tags: animals, vegetarian

184 likes

“There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall. ”
― Jose Ortega y Gasset

9 likes

“Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry.”
― Scroobius Pip

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