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Warren is Currently Reading

Warren Benton is currently reading

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

bookshelves: audiobook, fiction, currently-reading

Reading for the 3rd time

read in December 2011

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Warren Benton said: " Ebeneezer Scrooge is a miser of a man. He is worried more about what people own him then about the people themselves. He doesn't want to allow anyone to get anything over on him. So he even watches his worker like a hawk and will not even allow hi ...more "

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— Nov 10, 2018 03:22PM

Dec 07, 2017 05:47PM · see review

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Not Your White Jesus: Following a Radical, Refugee Messiah

by Sheri Faye Rosendahl (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, christian, ebook, nonfiction, netgalley

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Oct 26, 2018 04:03PM

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The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

bookshelves: audiobook, fiction, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in April 2013

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Warren Benton said: " There is a man named Gatsby who is surrounded in intrigue and mystery. He throws parties that everyone is talking about. But it is all for naught because he is deeply in love with a married woman. He tries to show her all his stuff but it does not re ...more "

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— Nov 06, 2018 03:29PM

Nov 02, 2018 07:09PM · see review

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Warren’s Quotes

“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

tags: facts, knowledge

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“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

tags: books, friendship

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“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

tags: happiness

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“He describes opening up an artery, flushing the blood out with water, and pumping in alcohol. I’ve been to frat parties like that.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You

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