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God's Crucible by David Levering Lewis JR by William Gaddis The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon by Richard Zimler Kings of the Earth by Jon Clinch The Last Stand by Nathaniel Philbrick You Must Remember This by Joyce Carol Oates Do They Hear You When You Cry by Fauziya Kassindja Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer In the Heart of the Country by J.M. Coetzee The Victims Return by Stephen F. Cohen Among the Bohemians by Virginia Nicholson
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Thom Dunn voted on the list Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton The First Circle by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
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""When living creatures crawled forth upon primeval earth, dumb, shapeless beasts, they fought for their acorns and lairs with nails and fists, then with clubs, and so on step by step with the weapons which need had later forged, until they found words and names wherewith to give meaning to their cries and feelings."

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"In The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages literary critic Harold Bloom categorizes all of the following famous literary figures as "enchanted vitalists" ... except?"
11 hours, 31 min ago
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questions answered: 70601
correct: 41521 (588%)
skipped: 805
best streak: 88
questions added: 1999
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Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
Shadow of the Silk Road
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Private Empire by Steve Coll
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
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Thom Dunn voted on the list Ridiculously Underrated Books (Fewer than 20 Ratings)
Watchers at the Pond by Franklin Russell Future Perfect by Howard Bruce Franklin A Preface to the Nibelungenlied by Theodore Murdock Andersson The earliest English poetry; by Charles W. Kennedy The Cup of Fury by Upton Sinclair
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Thom Dunn marked as to-read:
The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert A. Caro
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power
by Robert A. Caro
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Thom Dunn marked as to-read:
The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent
by Robert A. Caro
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Quotes Thom Likes

Friedrich Nietzsche
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: strength
17712 people liked it

Rudyard Kipling
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling
tags: words
2559 people liked it

Douglas Adams
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
tags: humor , scifi
9985 people liked it

Frank Zappa
“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa
tags: books , humor
32786 people liked it

Robert Frost
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost
tags: life
32558 people liked it

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1 Goodreads Feedback — 7549 members — last activity 54 minutes ago
This is a place to give feedback about Goodreads. Feature ideas, bugs, or any other suggestion for improvement. The Goodreads staff monitors this grou...more
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This group is for all fans of Dan Simmons' books.
853 Constant Reader — 2987 members — last activity 1 hour, 14 min ago
An open forum for friendly discussion of books and anything to do with reading, movies and art.
49864 The Random Llama Group — 6 members — last activity 04 sett. 18:31
This is a group for people who like llamas and you can do whatever you want on this.
408 Cincinnati Book Lovers — 79 members — last activity 27 dic. 17:41
For book lovers in the Greater Cincinnati area!
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Thom's Favorite Authors

26853 Bertolt Brecht
author of: Mother Courage and Her Children
42920 Wallace Stevens
author of: The Collected Poems
1624 Herman Melville
author of: Moby-Dick
7715 Robert Frost
author of: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged
903 Homer
author of: The Odyssey
947 William Shakespeare
author of: Romeo and Juliet
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questions answered:
70601 (565%)

correct:
41521 (588%)

skipped:
805 (11%)

ranking:
14 out of 985861

streak:
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best streak:
88

questions added:
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