Sign in with Facebook
Paul Reiners
https://www.goodreads.com/paul_reiners
“H Battery, Royal Horse Artillery. Bad cess to the Service and every one in it! Here I am nigh sixty years of age, with a beggarly pension of thirty-eight pound ten—not enough to keep me in beer and baccy.”
― The Mystery of Cloomber
― The Mystery of Cloomber
“In debating the educational value of lecture videos, some people argue that there’s something about being in the room that mere video can’t replicate. Based on what followed, I can say this: live and taped lectures really aren’t the same. Live lectures are definitely worse.”
― The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere
― The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere
“God as Satan? I’ve rarely heard a more radical formulation of the problem of theodicy (the attempt to reconcile the existence of a supposedly loving and just God with the persistence of evil).”
― Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
― Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
“Moundshroud, leaning over, gave a snort: “Why those are Sins, boys! And nondescripts. There crawls the Worm of Conscience!”
― The Halloween Tree
― The Halloween Tree
“And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute in that small but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of; if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather have done than to have left undone; if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honour and the glory to whaling; for a whaleship was my Yale College and my Harvard.”
― Moby Dick
― Moby Dick
Paul’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Paul’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
404 books
|
14 friends
160 books
|
7 friends
0 books
|
45 friends
48 books
|
90 friends
4 books
|
42 friends
22 books
|
15 friends
112 books
|
52 friends
62 books
|
31 friends
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Paul
Lists liked by Paul
