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Michael Gainey

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To Be or Not To Be: A Chooseable-Path Adventure

by Ryan North (Goodreads Author)

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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

by Howard Zinn

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The Lord of the Rings

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Michael ’s Notes & Highlights

The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson

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No matter how good you were, someone was better.

The MANIAC

by Benjamín Labatut

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The Twilight World

by Werner Herzog

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Michael ’s Quotes

“Happy wife, happy life takes on a whole new meaning when your other half is an indescribable cosmic horror.”
― Matt Dinniman, This Inevitable Ruin

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“In science, ideology tends to corrupt; absolute ideology, [corrupts] absolutely. —Robert Nisbet”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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“It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus McCrae”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

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“That is the one thing I have faith in! Our good and wonderful sovereign has to perform the noblest role on earth, and he is so virtuous and noble that God will not forsake him. He will fulfil his vocation and crush the hydra of revolution, which has become more terrible than ever in the person of this murderer and villain!”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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