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01-13-2007, 06:32 PM
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#1001
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Down ze wabbit hole
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Re-reading the Harry Potter books now 
I really must stop buying books, bought another 3 yesterday which now means I have 30-something books at home which I haven't read yet.
Mental note: Stop buying books until I've read the ones I have. 
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O loneliness, O hopelessness
To search the ends of time,
For there is in all the world
No greater love than mine.
-Annie Lennox, Love Song For A Vampire-
Rouge Z. Hatter has FINALLY returned to Gnet!
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01-13-2007, 10:07 PM
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#1002
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Posts: 1,679
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Im reading the oddesy. I really like it.
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01-13-2007, 10:13 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Down ze wabbit hole
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It's spelled 'The Odyssey' by the way, sweetie. What part are you up to?
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O loneliness, O hopelessness
To search the ends of time,
For there is in all the world
No greater love than mine.
-Annie Lennox, Love Song For A Vampire-
Rouge Z. Hatter has FINALLY returned to Gnet!
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01-14-2007, 07:45 AM
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#1004
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Yew City
Posts: 2,413
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Picked up Morgan Llewellyn's "Grania".
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I am The Mighty Cooch!!!!!!
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01-14-2007, 12:18 PM
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#1005
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Your back pocket!
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I just started reading "Wings of a Falcon" and so far it's really good!
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Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that ...
Author: George Carlin
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01-17-2007, 01:46 AM
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#1006
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: the eternal suburbs
Posts: 654
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My diaries (from when I kept them) and The Divine Comedy...
This is my fourth time reading it, and I love the story and symbolism; the only thing I hate about reading The Divine Comedy is that when I dream, the dreams are my usual , but everyone speaks in terza rima (I guess reading that meter for hours on end will do that to some). How is it that I can speak in rhyme so fluently in my dreams, but I can't construct a decent poem worth a damn in the waking world?
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According to an article in USA Today, children from single parent homes have much better verbal skills than children from two parent homes. However, children from two parent homes are far superior at bitterly sarcastic repertoire.
I'd love to see crowds of kids running away from a greased naked guy with Jesus hair.--c130
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01-17-2007, 03:21 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Get a CT scan and find out
Posts: 373
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"Soul of the Fire" by Terry Goodkind.
I started reading it ages ago, but then I stopped reading. I go through phases when I don't read anything for a while. But, I just got the latest book of the series, "Phantom," for my birthday, so I'm going to keep going through the series. (I'm the kind that starts at the beginning in order to read the end, even if it's a series that spans ten books. I'm doing the same with the Final Fantasy games. I just bought XII, but I'm still on III since I just got it, so it'll be a while till I get around to playing XII.)
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01-17-2007, 03:23 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: With the Zombies
Posts: 2,208
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i just finished About A boy, again... 
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It's not so much the pain
It's more the actual knife
Pretending the picture is perfect
I cut myself to sleep
I close my eyes for a second
And curse my fragile soul
I scream to hide that I'm lonely
The echo calls my name
*ANIMAL CRACKERS*
http://www.myspace.com/persephone_x
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01-17-2007, 05:28 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Washington
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Originally Posted by BlackButterfly
How is it that I can speak in rhyme so fluently in my dreams, but I can't construct a decent poem worth a damn in the waking world?
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Maybe you're only dreaming that you are? Unless you can remember exactly what you say outside of the dream, of course. Your signature always makes me want to read The Divine Comedy again. I think I'm going to get a hold of it soon.
For now, though, I've started reading Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It's not very long, I might be finished in upwards a week.
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01-17-2007, 06:03 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
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Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift.
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"No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world.
I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
-Mikhail Bakunin
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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01-17-2007, 06:23 PM
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#1011
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: the eternal suburbs
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Oh, I loved that book! I literally read it to pieces (it began falling apart in my hands )! I should buy a hardback copy.
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According to an article in USA Today, children from single parent homes have much better verbal skills than children from two parent homes. However, children from two parent homes are far superior at bitterly sarcastic repertoire.
I'd love to see crowds of kids running away from a greased naked guy with Jesus hair.--c130
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01-18-2007, 12:28 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 66
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Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk.
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01-18-2007, 01:40 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Tokyo, Japan
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How is it that I can speak in rhyme so fluently in my dreams, but I can't construct a decent poem worth a damn in the waking world?
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The world has features that you perceive with your senses and then develop impressions about. Dreams work the opposite way around - since they start in your head their basic nature is in the impressions. The apparently external details just get filled in where necessary because you are used to having them. If you try hard you can probably remember having really abstract dreams where there were very few extrinsic details at all and it was mostly just a wash of impressions.
So the poem you wrote in your dream *was* really good, not because the words were arranged nicely, but because being good was its identity in the dream. Unfortunately it's not easy to take it from there... to out here. In one dream I came up with the funniest joke ever, but it didn't make the leap. Not that it turned out not to be funny... it just ceased existing, retroactively. Sucky, that. Honestly I prefer it over on the other side.
Drake
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01-18-2007, 01:06 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: The Icy Forest of New England
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The Uglies Series by Scott Westerfeld. It's a very interesting series about the future and how they could change the way people look at each other and stop all the hatred of racism and such. But it also leads to government and control and secrets. Much like it is now. It's a very good series. I highly suggest it to anyone who is interested in such books.
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"Tigers love pepper, they hate cinnamon."
-Zach Galifianakis
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01-18-2007, 02:24 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Arizona
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Edgar Allen Poe always.
Reccommend some great authors to check out.
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01-19-2007, 01:54 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Houston Texas
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The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker.
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"The Goths are beautiful, a vast depth of sub cultural,
aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that
as we did back in 1979. But not the post modern distortion
...the costume without the brain."
--Peter Murphy
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01-19-2007, 02:54 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Inland Empire
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Red Dragon by Thomas Harris.
Great book.
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01-19-2007, 04:53 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Portugal
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"Perfume" by Patrick Süskind.
The movie came out and I felt like reading the book first ^^
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01-22-2007, 05:31 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: New England
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Dark Side of the Moon by Sherrilyn Kenyon. It's okay; I'm having a hard time getting into it.
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01-23-2007, 04:47 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Houston Texas
Posts: 443
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The Dresden Files: Storm Front
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"The Goths are beautiful, a vast depth of sub cultural,
aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that
as we did back in 1979. But not the post modern distortion
...the costume without the brain."
--Peter Murphy
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01-23-2007, 02:06 PM
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#1021
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Thanks Circle V)
I laid Gulliver's Travels after reading the first part for now.
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"No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world.
I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
-Mikhail Bakunin
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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01-23-2007, 02:17 PM
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#1022
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
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Even my Dad's reading it. It seems to be quite popular right now.
I've jsut finished "An Artist of the Floating World" by Kazuo Ishiguro.
I found it sad, to say the least.
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Petrified for the millionth time...
Slowly my soul evaporates
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01-24-2007, 09:07 AM
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#1023
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: None of your business
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I'm reading your post.
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01-24-2007, 09:30 AM
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#1024
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 1,247
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*LOLZ @ Ink_of_Souls*
I'm on ur boardz readin ur poastz!!!11
Now, back in your cave. Shoo!
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Petrified for the millionth time...
Slowly my soul evaporates
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01-24-2007, 04:30 PM
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#1025
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: None of your business
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Thank’s Morrigan_Dubh I think, unless that’s sarcasm....
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