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Member: rdurick

Library1,992 books — see library

Reviews8 reviews — see reviews

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Tagsphilosophy (243), history (235), music (219), comfort of religion (214), america (181), novel (161), literature (138), bible reference (99), poetry (90), humor (66) — see all tags

Groups12 Steps, All Things New England, Art is Life, Ask LibraryThing, Bestsellers over the Years, Book Clubs, Book Lovers Who Love Fountain Pens, Cartoons, Collapse, Dictionaries & other reference books — show all groups , Dystopian novels, Existentialism, Francophiles, French Connection, Happy Heathens, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, Libertarian Cooking, Lingua Latina, Mahābhārata Anyone?, Medieval Europe, Monks, Monasteries and Monasticism, Most Disturbing Books, Non-Fiction Readers, Opera, or Nobody Knows the Traubel I've Seen, Philosophy and Theory, Pro and Con, Readers Over Sixty, Reading the States, Romance Languages, The City and the Book, The Random Group for Fogies and Curmudgeons of All Ages, Too Obscure, Unitarian Universalist Readers, Western Massachusetts History

Favorite authorsJames Luther Adams, Bill W, Harold Bloom, Stephen Crane, George Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, F. A. Hayek, George Herriman, Henry James, Yasunari Kawabata, Walt Kelly, Halldor Laxness, Doris Lessing, John Milton, Friedrich Nietzsche, Plato, Bertrand Russell, Richard Sorabji, Leo Tolstoy, Calvin Trillin, Anthony Trollope (Shared favorites)

About me I am a retired bureaucrat and a transcendentalist unitarian.



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I have started a private group called "12 Steps" for those of us following that program. To get to it, you can search for it on the Groups page, click on it here, or click on it in my Groups above. If Library Thing requires that you have an invitation to join and you want to, leave me a private comment below.

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Tags: http://www.librarything.com/tags

Favorite Tag: garlic

My Wiki: http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/User:Rdurick

Format Sources: Noisy's Profile, Nuts and Bolts, FYI on formatting, Web Source

FAQ (official and unofficial) and Quasi-FAQ: FAQ, FAQ Group, FYI, Greyhead's FAQ

I also offer my opinion at: Salon des Belles Lettres et des Beaux Arts

Nominal Philosophy: Stoicism or, alternatively, stoicism

Favorite Number: 9, although it isn't a favorite tag

Favorite country after the United States of America: Canada

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About my library It is unwieldy. So after making a lot of smoke out of the starting gate, I have slowed way down; perhaps a quarter of my books are here. None of the books I've had a long time and are upstairs in back will get here for some time. As I get new books, however, I catalogue them immediately.



Best Non-Fiction: Historians' Fallacies by David Hackett Fischer

Best Novel: Independent People by Haldor Laxness

Best Poem: Paradise Lost by John Milton

Best Comics: Tie: Krazy Kat and Pogo

Best Memoir: The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Best Bible: The New Jerusalem Bible

Best Philosopher: Plato

Best Reference Work: Le Petit Larousse Illustre

Best Cook Book: Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer

Best Editions: Library of America, Norton Critical Editions

Best American English Dictionary: It depends:
Normative: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Descriptive: Webster's Third New International Dictionary, unabridged from Merriam Webster

Best Explanation: Main Currents of Marxism by Leszek Kolakowski

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Membership LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Real nameRobert Durick

Emailred28cornell.edu

Account typepublic, lifetime

URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/rdurick (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/rdurick (library)

Member sinceJun 12, 2007