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Old 02-18-2010, 10:02 AM   #2601
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Old 02-18-2010, 10:07 AM   #2602
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Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
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Old 02-18-2010, 01:58 PM   #2603
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Several books at the moment actually.

Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft

Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
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Old 02-18-2010, 07:27 PM   #2604
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Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
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I am a third way through where her new life is all pump room drama and annoying men bragging how rich they are. I can't say I like the plot much so far, but I love the flowery way it is written, with such descriptive flourish and old English idioms. Hoping it will get exciting soon.
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Old 02-19-2010, 06:18 AM   #2605
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I am a third way through where her new life is all pump room drama and annoying men bragging how rich they are. I can't say I like the plot much so far, but I love the flowery way it is written, with such descriptive flourish and old English idioms. Hoping it will get exciting soon.
You're hoping in vain HP. Northanger Abbey is horrible. It was a pretty subtle parody in its day and it's lost 99% of its appeal over time as literature drifts farther and farther from the era it was parodying. For some old gothics that are still somewhat funny try Vathek by Beckford, The Heroine by Barrett, or Nightmare Abbey by Peacock. All of them are better than Northanger.

EDIT: And Korinna's reading Diary of a Drug Fiend? Fuckin' cool. Crowley was heroin chic way before Kate Moss.
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Old 02-19-2010, 06:43 AM   #2606
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Northanger Abbey is horrible. It was a pretty subtle parody in its day and it's lost 99% of its appeal over time as literature drifts farther and farther from the era it was parodying. For some old gothics that are still somewhat funny try Vathek by Beckford, The Heroine by Barrett, or Nightmare Abbey by Peacock. All of them are better than Northanger.

I know...*sigh* I have to do it for my english essay.

The Heroine by Barrett is pretty great. I'll take you up on Nightmare Abbey
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Old 02-19-2010, 07:08 AM   #2607
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Old 02-24-2010, 06:40 PM   #2608
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I just finished Gallows Hill by Louis Duncan i cant beleive how ignorant people are
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Old 02-24-2010, 10:00 PM   #2609
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The Eyes of Darkness-Dean Koontz.

Crappy title, but it's been good so far.
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Old 02-27-2010, 08:48 PM   #2610
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The Vampire Lestat again. Also, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes' Demon In My View, John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, and Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

Thoughts on any of them excepting The Vampire Lestat?
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Old 02-28-2010, 04:07 AM   #2611
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The Book of Daniel - E. L. Doctorow. It's actually very good.
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Old 02-28-2010, 04:15 AM   #2612
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The Road - Cormac McCarthy

Again. It's brilliant!
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Old 02-28-2010, 06:46 PM   #2613
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Finished Backlash and am now a little more disgusted with the world. I'm still in the mood for feminist lit so I picked up The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti.
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Old 02-28-2010, 11:33 PM   #2614
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Old 03-01-2010, 03:02 PM   #2615
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I'm reading The Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology (the publisher escapes me now)
Rereading Eragon, Eldest and Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
And Poison by Chris Wooding
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Old 03-01-2010, 03:18 PM   #2616
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Again. It's brilliant!
I just saw the movie. Maybe I'll read it.

The Great Gatsby... again.
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Old 03-02-2010, 02:22 PM   #2617
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Picked up Insomnia from Stephen King. It's alright, but 200 pages in and I'm still only about a quarter of the way through.
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Old 03-02-2010, 08:37 PM   #2618
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Let me know how that one goes, its always there at the bookstore, its like they can't get rid of it.
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Old 03-03-2010, 06:49 AM   #2619
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I finished Peter Ward's Future Evolution when I showed up 2 1/2 hours early to class the other day. It was actually not as terrible as I was lead to believe. I was thinking it was all "geneticaly enhanced pork and humans that survive into the deep future, because I can only see 10 feet in front of me" bullshit. All of that is actually just a footnote.

I learned stuff too. You know about how terrible overfishing is? It actually isn't going to hold that much weight into the future, unless humans start building underwater cities and commiting mass genocide of whole clades like they have with whales (and those whales just can not die fast enough).

And like in The Life and Death of Planet Earth (which is fucking amazing), he intersperses the text with little bits of prose describing the environments in a first person environment.

And here's where it gets good. Okay, you know the time right after we go extinct, but large portions of our infrastructure (buildings, dams, garbage heaps, etc.) are still around? Well, in real life those bits are going to dissolve before the first new genuses will have a chance to appear. But ol' Ward says to hell with the most probable future, I want giant crows now!

And that's exactly what he did. He had his time traveler make some curious observations about the snakes, pigs, and rats living in a giant garbage pile before turning to a forest (which also shouldn't be there, it's more likely a clover-field with giant dandelions) and being taloned in the back of the head by a huge mob of fucking gigantic future crows that are hungry for blood.

I would pay money to die that way... so cool!

For those of you keeping track at home, that would bring the scores up to:
Humans: Dead
Dinosaurs: Giant Fucking Flesh-Eating Crows

SO cool!
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Old 03-03-2010, 07:08 AM   #2620
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Oh forgot. Read Metamorphosis too. Probably one of the most depressing things I've ever read. I don't understand what the moral of the story was about at all.
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Old 03-04-2010, 12:23 PM   #2621
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Old 03-05-2010, 06:08 PM   #2622
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Siddhartha's awesome.

I'm reading Jane Eyre.
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Old 03-05-2010, 11:57 PM   #2623
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Vernor Vinge - "Across Realtime" while I'm at work.

Jerry Pournelle - "War World: The Burning Eye" while I'm at home.


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Old 03-06-2010, 01:48 PM   #2624
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