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Robert is Currently Reading

Robert is currently reading

walk with me: A Vietnam Experience

by Gerald F. Kurth

bookshelves: currently-reading, american-history, asia, history, memoir-autobiography, military-history, vietnam

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Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence

by John Ferling

bookshelves: currently-reading, history, military-history, american-history

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Jun 07, 2026 04:55AM

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Salammbo

by Gustave Flaubert

bookshelves: currently-reading, euro-lit, historical-fiction

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Robert’s Quotes

“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.”
― John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton

tags: moral-law, philosophy

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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: humor

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“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
― Horace Walpole

tags: comedy, emotions, life, perspective, thinking, tragedy

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“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski

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Robert’s Groups

STA Readers' Forum — 14 members — last activity Aug 20, 2012 02:04PM
St. Albans faculty, student, and alumni reading seminar.

STA Summer Book Club — 16 members — last activity Jun 07, 2010 10:29AM
Get off your butt and read.

St. Albans Military History Reading Group — 8 members — last activity Apr 13, 2020 09:29AM
With all of us quarantined at home, we figured we'd start a St. Albans military history reading group. Check the "general" discussion tab below for re ...more

Great War (1914-1918): The Society and Culture of the First World War — 479 members — last activity Dec 06, 2021 05:06AM
A place to discuss the cultural milieu of the Great War (also referred to as the First World War, World War I, WWI, World War One). The intent of this ...more

The History Book Club — 26256 members — last activity 10 hours, 1 min ago
"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more

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