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Marvel Comics Library: Spider-Man. Vol. 1. 1962–1964

by Ralph Macchio

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Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood

by William J. Mann

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King Sorrow

by Joe Hill (Goodreads Author)

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rtxlib’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America

Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America by Philip Jenkins

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liberal policies seemed to assume that mainstream white opinion was automatically racist and demanded to be overridden. Portraying people constantly as deadly enemies is scarcely a way of winning their sympathy, and to that extent, liberal ...more

The Beast House

by Richard Laymon

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In the Dark

by Richard Laymon

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rtxlib’s Quotes

“Play is the exultation of the possible.”
― Martin Buber

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“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

tags: atheism, reading, religion

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“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
― C.S. Lewis

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“The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs.”
― Alister McGrath

tags: belief, intelligence

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“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
― Martin Buber

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