Jim Rittenhouse

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Jim is Currently Reading

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The Berlin Project

by Gregory Benford

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"Seems very good so far..." — Oct 15, 2017 12:50AM

Oct 12, 2017 11:04PM

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Intern

by Doctor X.

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"Obviously dated (came out in ‘65, but his Intern training was around ‘57, when I was born) and very gripping story of his intern year as a doctor. I first read it as a Readers Digest condensed book not long after it was published, and this is probably my 2d or 3d reread since then." — Oct 12, 2019 01:32AM

Oct 12, 2019 01:26AM

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The Sheep Look Up

by John Brunner

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"Horribly sad and a damning portrait of the future where pollution of all sorts is destroying the earth. Feels more prophetic now than when I first read it years ago." — Oct 12, 2019 01:25AM

Sep 30, 2019 12:40PM

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Exodus by Leon Uris

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Kammal eyed the return of the Jews to the Promised Land with suspicion. The Jews puzzled him, for they had come in peace, purchased their land legally, and spoke only in lofty terms of redemption. Kammal, in understanding the basic drive ...more

Jim’s Quotes

“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3

tags: concentration, death, focus, hanging, irony

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