532 ratings (3.18 avg)
45 reviews

James Doto

Add friend

James’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (1211)
currently-reading‎ (3)

read‎ (533)
audiobook‎ (91)

favorites‎ (62)

Stats | More…

James is Currently Reading

James Doto is currently reading

White Noise

by Don DeLillo

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Dec 27, 2025 06:29PM

James Doto is currently reading

Gone With the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

progress:

(page 336 of 959)
— Dec 26, 2025 12:08PM

Dec 20, 2025 09:12AM

James Doto is currently reading

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Nov 23, 2025 07:51AM

James’s Quotes

“He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

249 likes

“Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast,
And each will wrestle for the mastery there.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

tags: inner-conflict

107 likes

“It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home -- only the millions of last moments . . . nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

tags: atheism, death, life

279 likes

“Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

445 likes

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

4733 likes

More of James’s quotes…

recent posts
James’s Groups

R/Booksuggestions — 166 members — last activity May 13, 2014 03:53PM
A Goodreads group for Reddit members of r/booksuggestions and r/suggestmeabook.

/r/52book — 988 members — last activity Jan 12, 2022 12:33AM
The goodreads group for everyone that joins /r/52book or anyone else who is participating in a 52 book challenge!

r/Books — 40 members — last activity Jan 25, 2015 03:41AM
A Goodreads group of the subreddit r/Books!

St Petersburg Book Club - FL — 126 members — last activity Jan 04, 2023 05:31AM
This is the Goodreads home for the St. Petersburg, Florida, Book Club. The St. Pete Book Club is comprised of a well-rounded, well-read group of peopl ...more