Wrob's Wreading

The new James M. McPherson is gloriorious!
THIS MIGHTY SCOURGE!!!
A collection of essays with a gorgeous-ass cover. If you are at ALL interested in our great Civil War, and if you even LIKE the sound of words, even justa lil bit, you'll go Hog Wild for this, a LOT! Hot Dog! +++++
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DAVE EGGERS DAVE EGGERS
Dubbled meself with dubble-eggers: the smoking hot new one <WHAT IS THE WHAT> in GORGEOUS 50's schoolbook hardback & the hilarious high five paperback that is A.H.W.O.S.G. heck yes! How much funnin' it is this! Sakes Alive!
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THE END OF FAITH!!!!!!


RELIGION, TERROR, AND THE FUTURE OF REASON
Sam Harris scorching paperback! Sparks & Arrows! Direct Hits All Over! Loud & Proud writings, can I getta HELL YES! This is str8 Body Temple Defense, plus justice. I'm uplifted re-reading him, hoping me up into imagining things actually changing, peeple growing on a large scale, helping each other naturally through community, discarding heart-scamming religions and simply adoring the ones they love, be they family or friends or fantasy lovers or favorite female mc's ...

"We can no longer ignore the fact that billions of our neighbors believe in the metaphysics of martyrdom, or in the literal truth of the book of Revelation, or any of the other fantastical notions that have lurked in the minds of the faithful for millennia -- because our neighbors are now armed with chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. There is no doubt that these developments mark the terminal phase of our credulity. Words like "God" and "Allah" must go the way of "Apollo" and "Baal," or they will unmake our world."

And THEN he lays into Religious Moderates!!!
OMG!
HELLS BELLS!
Now THIS is what I am talking abouts!
/wrubbing handes vigorously

"Religious Moderates are themselves the bearer of a terrible dogma: they imagine that the path to peace will be paved once each of us has learned to respect the unjustified beliefs of others. I hope to show that the very ideal of religious tolerance -- born of the notion that every human being should be free to believe whatever he wants about God -- is one of the principal forces driving us toward the abyss."

And he DOES show us. Early and often. This stuff is hot lava in y'all's neighborhoodes. Thank you, Sam Harris, raised fist.
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Got the new L'ENFANT book: Scott W. Berg did the wresearch, wrote it up, and it ... is ... niiiiiiice. GRAND AVENUES: THE STORY OF THE FRENCH VISIONARY WHO DESIGNED WASHINGTON DC. Hail.
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On page [794] of Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Thomas Thomas Pynchon Pynchon's AGAINST THE DAY +++ I should write about this every day. Every day I read more, even if it is only a paragraph, but every time there's more and more and then some more, hahaha, and i know the fun sometimes is imagining you never hafta read it all or ever even find an ending cuz cuz cuz he pax it in, longcharge paragraphes galore WE WIN! Wrob hearts this book beaucoup.
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Wreading Flannery O'Connor's short story "The Violent Bear it Away" > 1955 > from a Library of America collexion: an LC Copy 2 from Fort Meade, lovely green cloth cover. This is some serious writing.