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Joe is Currently Reading

Joe is currently reading

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

bookshelves: classics, currently-reading

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Jan 04, 2026 04:02PM

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John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crooks' Tour of Crime and Corruption in St. Paul, 1920-1936

by Paul Maccabee (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, crime, mafia-gangs, non-fiction

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Joe’s Quotes

“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
― Richard Dawkins

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“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country

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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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“The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.”
― Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation

tags: george-w-bush, god, religion

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