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W E L C O M E


Wild Catches: 8
Wild Catches With A New Member: 4
RABCKs Given: 6
RABCKs Received: 6
Special Thanks To: agschoolgrad, Judio, & thelydia

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Quotations of Interest

"People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves."

Oscar Wilde, The Picture Of Dorian Gray


“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!”"

Isaac Asimov, Foundation

"Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by."

Christina Rossetti, Who Has Seen The Wind

"Yet Ray did not disrupt a single snail while he sat on the dock;
he knew that it took a snail too long to get where it was going.
'Every time you throw a snail off the dock,' Ray teased Homer Wells,
'you're making someone start his whole life over.'
'Maybe I'm doing him a favor,' said Homer Wells, the orphan.
Ray had to admit that he liked that boy."

John Irving, The Cider House Rules


"… the worst part of poverty is that you believe you can no more shed it than you can your personality or character, that you see your condition as a self-defining trait that, no matter how much money you come into, you can never divest yourself of or, worst of all, hide from other people."

Wayne Johnston, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams


"Decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately."

Malcolm Gladwell, Blink




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* The books I have registered are not totally indicative of my reading tastes as I am mostly registering books I feel comfortable releasing into the wild (I could've used this site many, many years ago).

* I do not participate in book rays or rings

* If the title of a book has a year in parentheses then it is not the actual book cover being shown

* Books marked as PC may not always stay that way. I wish to keep these in my possession for now. I may release them if I find a better copy or just change my mind about keeping them.

* If you have come searching for great book reviews you have come to the wrong place. I suggest you click on the Amazon.com tag next to the title in question for a short cut to much better reviews.

* Star rating: it is not exactly consistent and results vary depending on my mood, my memory, or even an unfair comparison with another of the author's books. Generally, books given a 7 or higher are recommended; books given an 8 or higher were greatly enjoyed and are most likely keepers.




Most Common Genres Read:
Classic Literature, Fantasy, Philosophy, Psychology (no, not self-help).

Respected Fiction Authors:
Isaac Asimov, Emily Bronte, Orson Scott Card, Charles Dickens, Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, George Eliot, William Goldman, Thomas Hardy, S.E. Hinton, John Irving, Guy Gavriel Kay, C.S. Lewis, George Orwell, David Adams Richards, Edmond Rostand, John Steinbeck, Count Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman.





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