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Wise Child 02-07-2006 12:25 PM

I'm currently reading a translation of The Golden Ass by Lucious Apuleius. Far more entertaining than a book written in 354 AD has any right to be!

Beowulf 02-07-2006 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Saya
I know! I was horrified in the end when he said he was going to kill himself, and I didn't like how Frankenstein never learned his lesson in the end. It just didn't seem conclusive to me. All should love the creature ^_^


Creature Gooooooooooooood, Fran-ken-stein baaaaaaaaaaaad.

succubus,queenofvampires 02-08-2006 11:45 AM

I'm about to start a book called Theosophy.I hope it's as interesting as it sounds.

By the way,what is the difference between theology and theosophy?

Queenofdarkness57 02-08-2006 12:47 PM

The Killing Hour- Lisa Gardner

Lady Ravenna 02-09-2006 09:06 AM

As of right now I am reading three books at once. "Frankenstein" ( for school) "Witchcraft: Theory and Practice" by Ly de Angeles and "I, Vampire" by Michael Romkey (for the third time)

IlGato_DiDiablo 02-09-2006 02:39 PM

Still trying to find a good book... It's just so hard for me sometimes to pick a book that I wouldn't get bored off easily.

Blushing Heliophobe 02-13-2006 11:39 PM

I'm halfway through Clinton's My Life.

Just finished The Real Hillary Clinton, and I have to say, that book made me laugh.

I'm almost finished with Our Endangered Values:America's Moral Crisis by Jimmy Carter. His school of thought really appeals to me. Of all the books I've recently read, I would reccomend this one.

That's it :)

BlackPaladin 02-17-2006 03:14 AM

Lord of the Rings book versions: Lord of the Rings III,
just started to read

Manimal 02-17-2006 05:35 PM

I've started reading "How to rebuild a Big Block Mopar" for the second time. I'm also reading "Perl for systems Administrators" but the plot isn't really holding my attention very well.

VampGrrl 02-18-2006 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by imaerus
Aside from Palahniuk, I also read the entire Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton, at the request of a co-worker.

I genuninely enjoyed the first five or so in the series, and i really liked the protagonist alot. But then, at some point the books just got sleazier and sleazier. I lost some respect for Anita, and the series became almost laughably sexual. It started as a tough, competent protagonist in a clever little world where vampires live amongst us as legal citizens. But it devolved into, for lack of a better description, a series of tawdry romace novels with a preternatural twist. Vampire Porn. Anyone else as disappointed in the change in Anita Blake as me?

No, it's not just you. I enjoyed the series even up until Narcissus in Chains. Cerulean Sins and Incubus Dreams were just vampire/wereperson porn. And, ya know, I read and thoroughly enjoy romance novels and it wasn't even "tawdry romace novels with a preternatural twist". Romances at least have a plot. Incubus Dreams was jsut a series of cold sex scenes strung together by the barest hint of a mystery. Heck I didn't think that the first hundred pages of so even felt like Anita Blake. and yet I keep buying them because now I'm invested in most of these characters, have been reading them for years, and I still hope that she'll pull out of this slump and get back to how great the first books were. Becuase they were. The first books in the series were fabulous. I think I spent my whole vacation one year laying around and read the first five or six in the series! But, no, it's now just you!

M.

Beowulf 02-19-2006 02:49 PM

I`am reading Stephen King`s `Christine` for the second time, also reading `Forest of the Vampire` which is a book on east european folklore, which is quite interesting.


Manimal, `Perl for systems administrators`, it does`nt sound like a very exiting book.

Is it written by the same people who brought you `Watching Paint Dry for Systems Administrators`. :)

Magpie_Tendencies 02-20-2006 09:44 PM

I have hated all the books I've read by Stephen King. I just don't like what he writes though I can't quite put my finger on why.

Right now I'm reading "Hades' Daughter" by Sara Douglass. I've just started and it's quite good so far.

Manimal 02-21-2006 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Beowulf
I`am reading Stephen King`s `Christine` for the second time, also reading `Forest of the Vampire` which is a book on east european folklore, which is quite interesting.


Manimal, `Perl for systems administrators`, it does`nt sound like a very exiting book.

Is it written by the same people who brought you `Watching Paint Dry for Systems Administrators`. :)

True the plot is lacking, but it does help me pay the bills :)

Up next is "VMWare ESX Advanced Design". Can you just feel the excitement? Whooooey!

Blushing Heliophobe 02-22-2006 07:03 AM

I just read Belly Laughs by Jenny McArthy. It was really funny - she isn't shy about anything, anything at all. I like it a lot more than I thought I would.

Jacks Girl 02-24-2006 10:08 AM

I've been slowly making my way through 'American Gods' by Neil Gaiman, but I've had to stop reading it for a while so that I can read the thousands of books that are being thrown at me by lecturers. What I've read of 'American Gods' so far is very good (no suprise there as its Mr. Gaiman). Shall fill you all in more when i finish it.

OCD Insomnia 02-24-2006 10:33 AM

Right now I'm reading "Vampire Kisses" wich is very addicting.

Saya 02-24-2006 11:05 AM

I'm reading The Gnole by Alan Aldridge, it was my favourite book for a long time but I forgot about it, I found it when I went home for the weekend and was going through books I don't want anymore. I think the next pet I get I'm naming it Fungle ^_^

Metatron 02-24-2006 11:11 AM

A book of poems by William Blake.

Pathogen. 02-24-2006 02:23 PM

Profane Existence #49.

anchyyy 02-25-2006 08:24 AM

Digital Fortress by Dan Brown.

She_Is_My_Sin 02-25-2006 03:01 PM

The Babysitter Triology by R.L.Stine. I read it when I was about 9 & it always got me worrying if someone was secretly after me...

Pathogen. 02-25-2006 04:11 PM

"Fire To The Powder Keg", again. It was that good of a book to me.


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