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Hilda Wade: A Woman With Tenacity of Purpose

by Grant Allen

bookshelves: currently-reading, crime, lady-sleuths-megapack

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Wild Dogs (Gabe Ahern #1)

by Michael Trant (Goodreads Author)

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The Hobbit (Middle Earth, #0)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

bookshelves: fantasy, currently-reading

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read in October 2011

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Dan said: " I am giving this a second read in preparation for giving the trilogy a first read. I plan to write a review when I finish this time. This book is in desperate need of one and I know the world awaits my verdict. "

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Jan 24, 2026 03:38PM · see review

Dan’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer

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Yet, if Smith were right (and I did not doubt him), the green eyes of Dr. Fu-Manchu had looked upon the scene; and I found myself marveling that its beauty had not wilted up. Even now the dread Chinaman must be near to us.

A fairly standardv melodramatic line.

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Dan’s Quotes

“When one knows, as I do, that time and space are identical and that they are both deceptive because they are merely imperfect manifestations of a higher reality, one no longer seeks in the visible world for an explanation of the mystery and terror of being.”
― Henry Bartholomew, Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird

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“One of my senses was saluted, nay, more than that, hailed, with imperiousness, and that was, strangely enough, my sense of smell, but in a hitherto unknown fashion.”
― Henry Bartholomew, Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird

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“did it ever occur to you, my friend, that force and matter are merely the barriers to perception imposed by time and space?”
― Henry Bartholomew, Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird

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“There is something very singular about this room.”
― Henry Bartholomew, Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird

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“I rose, paid my bill and went out, leaving him, I have no doubt, with the impression that I was a particularly hidebound idiot. But I had my own reasons for making no further contribution to his data. I would see this thing through without any assistance from a too enterprising press.”
― Harper Williams, The Thing in the Woods

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