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06-06-2006, 06:04 PM
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#726
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: MA
Posts: 18
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Originally Posted by the_cure
I'm currently reading Angels and Demons by Dan Brown.
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Awesome book...
Currently reading: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by R. Heinlein.
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06-08-2006, 12:23 AM
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#727
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Australia. Finally back home.
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Originally Posted by the_cure
I'm currently reading Angels and Demons by Dan Brown.
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I loved Angels and Demons. I actually consider it to be his best book, far better than the Da Vinci Code.
I just finished reading "Animal Farm" by George Orwell this morning. I had an exam on it today so I had to re-read it.
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-- Chris Isaak
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06-08-2006, 07:18 AM
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#728
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 1,247
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I have just started reading "The Third Policeman" by Flann O'Brien.
Darkly humourous, it opens with the narrator describing a murder he is commiting. It gets stranger and more twisted as it goes on. And I am only on chapter 3.... I am looking forward to getting deeper and deeper into the narrator's strange little world.
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Petrified for the millionth time...
Slowly my soul evaporates
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06-08-2006, 11:52 PM
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#729
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Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 20
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The Barbed Rose by Gail Dayton. Fantasy novel, nice quick read. Not too deap or with much of a message but a good plot and character developement.
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06-09-2006, 04:59 AM
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#730
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Down ze wabbit hole
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Currently reading 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories' by Washington Irving. The two supposedly best stories in it are Legend of Sleepy Hollow (obviously) and Rip Van Winkle but I think of the very interesting ones is 'The Mutability of Literature'. During the short story a man is having an intelligent conversation with a Quarto tome about the mutability of literature. At the end of the story, when the tome stops talking, the man is not able to tell whether the conversation was real or in his mind. Very interesting.
I strongly recommend to everybody here who enjoys intelligent short stories.
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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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06-10-2006, 07:42 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Southern California
Posts: 130
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The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice.
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06-10-2006, 10:56 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 152
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I have just finished reading two books, Blood Memory by Greg Iles, which I thoroughly enjoyed and Mosaic by Soheir Kashoggi which I was overall pretty disappointed in. 
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06-11-2006, 12:51 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: I'm underneath the sink, now what do you think, living under my sink?
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Started reading "Theif of Time" by Terry Pratchett
An interesting and often humourous look at time.
My first experience of the Discworld series and an enjoyable one so far.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease, and it's 100% fatal!
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06-12-2006, 12:07 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Lovely rainy Wales
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I've finally managed to read Neil Gaiman's "Anasi Boys", after resisting to read it during my exams. Its about a guy who finds out his father is Anasi the spider god, and that he has a long lost brother. It was really enjoyable to read (no suprise there), but possibly a bit slow in parts and no match on "Neverwhere".
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06-13-2006, 04:17 AM
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#735
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Australia. Finally back home.
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I just started "A shadow on the glass" by Ian Irving. It was reccommened to me by a friend. Seems quite good so far.
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"It's strange to see how much people have changed through the years. Just for fun, see if you can find the point where we all turned bitter."
-- Chris Isaak
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06-13-2006, 02:29 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Cimmeria
Posts: 7,162
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I`am reading the `Illustrated edition` of Stephen King`s `Salems Lot`, and its Brilliant !!!.
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For in each delve and greenwood,
far wiser creatures play,
and in their veins and sinews,
live the gods of yesterday.
Be excellent to one another !!!. 
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06-14-2006, 06:22 AM
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#737
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: the barren wilderness of northern england
Posts: 72
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ring by koji susuki
it's quite good (better than the film) but because it's translated from japanese some of the words don't seem to scan right. you're reading and then it's like 'eh? that's kinda a random word.' I recommend it though.
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06-14-2006, 08:35 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 20
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I just finished Vanish by Tess Gerritsen, and i'm working on Dracula by Bram Stoker
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06-14-2006, 09:09 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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So that does prove you're at the least literate, at most, a literature fun. It's your attitude that is the problem.
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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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06-16-2006, 04:06 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 37
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I am about to head to the library and pick up "Naked Lunch" by Burroughs, I am interested in toying around with some Avante Garde writing styles and figured it would be some good inspiration.
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06-23-2006, 02:04 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: London
Posts: 11
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Curently wding my way through the Vampire Hunter D Novels as they have finnaly started coming out in the U.K
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06-23-2006, 04:33 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Southern California
Posts: 130
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Currently reading Black by Charles Colyott - a fun, fast read.
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06-23-2006, 05:11 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 2,126
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I just re-read this book "Bastards i have met" by Barry Crump. Unusual, but i still found it hilarious.
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Everyone has a ghost...a phantom behind us which slows and drags us down.. This ghost or spectral has a name..."Regret".
"I've never regretted anything..." - Light Yagami
Life is a shit sandwich. Unfortunately, it's always lunchtime. How much bread you have goes a long way toward determining how easy it is to swallow.
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06-23-2006, 08:49 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: 37°4N 122°3W
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Halfway into both "Neuromancer" by William Gibson and "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston, and they're not muddling. The latter is going much faster.
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06-25-2006, 09:20 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: UK, Bucks
Posts: 27
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Just finished a Dean Koontz, and half way through Donna Tartt's 'The Little Friend'. After being starved of a reading novels during the exam period I think I'll go on a bit of a reading spree.
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06-27-2006, 07:59 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Finland
Posts: 228
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Atm I'm reading Queen of the Damned by A. Rice.
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Silver deads
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06-27-2006, 11:42 AM
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#747
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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Circle at Center- by Douglas Niles
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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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06-27-2006, 10:46 PM
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#748
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Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 20
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The new Laurell Hamilton that came out today. Danse Macabre - Not bad; but no murder mystery. Usually she puts a crime or puzzle that needs to be solved into her books. Not this one it is all character interaction. So if you read her for the mystery you will be disappointed.
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06-27-2006, 11:18 PM
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#749
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: London
Posts: 11
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Working my way through the RG Veda manga, going to London tomorrow to buy the next few volumes.
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06-28-2006, 06:57 AM
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#750
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Coventry, England.
Posts: 47
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I am currently reading two books at the same time...
And they are...
The Oxford book Of Gothic tales and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte...
I adore literature...
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