Benjamin Uminsky

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Benjamin.

https://www.goodreads.com/benjaminu

Wool
Benjamin Uminsky is currently reading
by Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 253 of 509)
Apr 12, 2025 04:34PM

 
The Quest for Alh...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
This Haunted Heav...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
See all 7 books that Benjamin is reading…
Loading...
Richard Dawkins
“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
Richard Dawkins

Thomas Ligotti
“The human phenomenon is but the sum
Of densely coiled layers of illusion
Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity
That there are persons of any kind
When all there can be is mindless mirrors
Laughing and screaming as they parade about
in an endless dream

Thomas Ligotti

H.P. Lovecraft
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
H. P. Lovercraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

Sam Harris
“In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.”
Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation

Christopher Hitchens
“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

110567 Literary Horror — 2007 members — last activity 2 hours, 15 min ago
A group for fans of literary horror. We will be discussing all things horrible and literary but especially those horrible volumes that either aspire t ...more
37633 Classic Horror Lovers — 1504 members — last activity Sep 12, 2025 07:27AM
Do you like your horror on the aged side? This group is for readers who love older/classic horror stories and books. Generally, horror published befor ...more
95230 Innovative Horror — 314 members — last activity Oct 18, 2023 01:37AM
E.T.A. Hoffman, H.P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson and (arguably) Clive Barker all moved horror fiction forward in their time. Who's doing so today? I t ...more
10871 The New Weird — 301 members — last activity Feb 08, 2022 04:57PM
I am not starting this group because I feel I know a lot about the New Weird. Quite the contrary. I'm starting the group because I don't know much, bu ...more
208497 Friends of Snuggly Books — 209 members — last activity 17 hours, 32 min ago
Snuggly Books publishes the best of experimental and Decadent fiction from the past, present, and perhaps even future...translations of classic works ...more
More of Benjamin’s groups…
year in books
Sirensongs
3,936 books | 282 friends

Gregor ...
3,114 books | 739 friends

Jon Nak...
20,818 books | 5,001 friends

mark mo...
2,364 books | 2,550 friends

Char
7,838 books | 2,346 friends

George ...
597 books | 24 friends

Glen Kr...
1,148 books | 4,738 friends

Seizure...
2,852 books | 125 friends

More friends…
Subject 11 by Jeffrey ThomasWithout Purpose, Without Pity by Brian HodgeThirty Miles South of Dry County by Kealan Patrick BurkeBeyond the Door by Jeffrey ThomasThe Fleshless Man by Norman Prentiss
DarkFuse Novella Ranking
43 books — 31 voters
The Nightfarers by Mark Valentine
Beautiful Prose, Plot and People
300 books — 271 voters

More…


Polls voted on by Benjamin

Lists liked by Benjamin