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11-15-2007, 07:34 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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i cant read
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11-15-2007, 04:54 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: the burning american south
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I just finished Incest by Marquis de Sade, and now am currently reading Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine.
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11-17-2007, 04:56 PM
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#1453
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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I am reading "Las enseñanzas de Don Juan" by Carlos Castañeda for the second time.
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11-17-2007, 05:21 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Florida
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The Looking Glass Wars
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11-17-2007, 05:29 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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I am reading A Tale of Two Cities. I hated the book two years ago when I had to read it for sophomore English. We're reading it again in British Authors, and I'm engrossed in it this time. I can't seem to put it down. I think my appreciation for Dickens has grown.
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11-17-2007, 05:48 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Florida
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I want to be reading Atlas Shrugged, because my dad suggested it to me, but I cannot find it anywhere.
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11-17-2007, 05:54 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GothicChristian
I want to be reading Atlas Shrugged, because my dad suggested it to me, but I cannot find it anywhere.
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Heh, I have a copy. You could definitely order it online. It's not a bad book.
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11-17-2007, 06:00 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Florida
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Quote:
Originally Posted by greencorrine
Heh, I have a copy. You could definitely order it online. It's not a bad book.
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I'm broke, I've been looking for it in libraries.
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11-17-2007, 08:32 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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American Gods, Ringworld.
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11-18-2007, 03:17 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Ottawa, Canada
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Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, Director's Cut - Jhonen Vasquez
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11-18-2007, 03:24 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Parkersburg, WV
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Lately I've been wanting to read all the old classics that I was never assigned to read in high school. Currently I'm working on Orwell's "1984," then I'll move on to Dicken's "A Tale of Two Cities".
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11-19-2007, 12:45 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Phillips Exeter Academy, NH
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Carrie- Stephen King.
Very good so far, even if it's a bit...strange....
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11-19-2007, 11:05 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Florida
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I'm done with The Looking Glass Wars, and am now reading Wolfcry.
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11-20-2007, 12:52 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: this Planet
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John Christopher "The White Mountains"
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11-20-2007, 02:47 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: The Kingdom of Phrygia...
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"Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo
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"Geek Love" by Katherine Dunn
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11-25-2007, 02:27 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Maryland
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"Current Methods of Autopsy Practice" a medical textbook from the 70's by Ludwig. They did things a bit differently back then...
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11-26-2007, 08:51 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: London
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Robinson Crusoe
Part of my Enlightenment course. We're doing Frankenstein next.
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The noblest sentiment I have encountered and the most passionate political statement to stir my heart both belong to a fictional character. Why do we have no politicians as pure in their intent and determinedly joyous in their outlook as Arkady Bogdanov of Red Mars?
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11-26-2007, 08:56 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
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Lost Souls, Poppy Z. Brite
The Body Sacred, Dianne Sylvan
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11-26-2007, 08:56 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Delkaetre
Robinson Crusoe
Part of my Enlightenment course. We're doing Frankenstein next.
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Sweet, two of my favourite books. Especially the first one, oddly enough. Makes me want to re-read it, again...
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11-26-2007, 09:09 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
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Any article I can find on Nazi Germany. My current google search terms are Nazi +: Sex, Sex Slave, Sadism, Masochism, Fashion, Fetishism, Blacks etc etc. It's all very fascinating. Disheartening, too...But that comes with the territory. I've been reading up on the comfort houses (brothels), homosexuality, and various other things. That's where the bottom most sig comes from.
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11-26-2007, 09:15 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: London
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Meth- you can perhaps give me pointers when it comes to essay time, so that I pick up key influences I may have missed?
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The noblest sentiment I have encountered and the most passionate political statement to stir my heart both belong to a fictional character. Why do we have no politicians as pure in their intent and determinedly joyous in their outlook as Arkady Bogdanov of Red Mars?
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11-26-2007, 09:23 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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Originally Posted by Delkaetre
Meth- you can perhaps give me pointers when it comes to essay time, so that I pick up key influences I may have missed?
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Sure, but wikipedia already has a great article about it that points out the most things about the book that often gets overlooked by teachers who just hand out the book and say "read it, since it's a classic.".
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11-26-2007, 09:41 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: London
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I... distrust Wikipedia. Immensely. Thank you for the link, though, I shall explore it at greater length later.
Discussions with non-editable entities are generally more fruitful. I'm reading into the political ideals expressed in R.C. and the potential for it to be considered a hypothetical essay on The Enlightenment.
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The noblest sentiment I have encountered and the most passionate political statement to stir my heart both belong to a fictional character. Why do we have no politicians as pure in their intent and determinedly joyous in their outlook as Arkady Bogdanov of Red Mars?
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11-26-2007, 10:00 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: San Jose, California
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Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. Finally, after owning the book for years.
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11-26-2007, 10:31 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,332
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Delkaetre
I... distrust Wikipedia. Immensely. Thank you for the link, though, I shall explore it at greater length later.
Discussions with non-editable entities are generally more fruitful. I'm reading into the political ideals expressed in R.C. and the potential for it to be considered a hypothetical essay on The Enlightenment.
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One really should distrust Wikipedia, I agree. It's a great source of information but in it's current form only good for pointers and not facts.. which suit perfectly when it comes to book essays, because a book with a story is also never facts, it's something else. Say for example that one reader thinks of R.C as a story about a man who learned to be more godloving, openminded and appreciate the nature etc and writes an essay on that. The teacher or examinist says 'very good, you captured what the author wanted to say' while in reality Defoe might just have been utterly bored and wrote it as a neat adventure because he wanted to break out of the boring and monotuos life we usually live (while that's not true since the author himself denied it, it's putting one perspective on the wonderful things that are books and what people think and read from them) no matter what generation or era.
Sorry for that little essay, but felt it was a moment in time where I could mention it and see what people thought about it...
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