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08-16-2007, 07:18 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: At work.
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Good lord, "The Shining" is a damn good book!
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08-16-2007, 11:52 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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I'm currently reading Dragons of Winter night by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. It's book two in the Dragonlance chronicles and quite good if you're into fantasy.
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08-17-2007, 12:27 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
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I think I'm about to read Being and Time (Zein und Zeit) by Heidegger.
I say I think because I see it and it scares me.
I know I'll have to read it eventually - it's the most influential work on continental philosophy - but I don't think I'm ready for it.
I'll try to read it until next time I go to the bookstore. I should read the philosophers in chronological order.
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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."
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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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08-17-2007, 12:42 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
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Eh, fuck it. I'm gonna read The Fellowship of the Ring instead. 
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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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08-17-2007, 01:03 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: St. Louis
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I've been trying to get through "War & Peace," this is the second attempt.
My sophmore year I was required to complete a book report on it, but I ended up writing the report but never actually "finishing" the book.
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"There is no way out of the mind"--Sylvia Plath
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08-18-2007, 01:28 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 69
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Still "Snow Garden" by Christopher Rice
It's taken a long time to read it.
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08-20-2007, 12:34 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: On Some Planet
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I am not currently reading any books but I just finished Macbeth.
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08-20-2007, 12:45 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Bucharest, Romania
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for the 3rd time I'm reading Lorelei
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08-20-2007, 12:48 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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Originally Posted by raineofblood
I am not currently reading any books but I just finished Macbeth.
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Well, that's one book I never finished. 
Damn you.
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08-20-2007, 05:08 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Down ze wabbit hole
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L o l i t a by Vladimir Nabokov
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
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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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08-20-2007, 05:12 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Flushing, NY
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I am not currently reading any books but I just finished Macbeth.
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I finished it as well; the play definitely gives an effective guideline of how pent-up guilt can remanifest itself in the form of paranoia. Then again, so does Hamlet, to a certain extent.
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08-20-2007, 05:40 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
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I am not currently reading any books but I just finished Macbeth.
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I loved that play!
That's the only play I have read of Shakespeare.
(what? I like the poems, not the plays)
But in my English class, we spent about half the year just delving into that play and we never run out of material.
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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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08-20-2007, 07:23 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Yew City
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Re-Reading House of Leaves before I send it to a friend in Melbourne; then, onto "Religion and Morals", essays by Fannie Wright
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08-20-2007, 09:49 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: At work.
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Jean-Paul Sarte, collected essays.
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08-21-2007, 03:05 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: a sneeze away from San Francisco
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Good choice. I'm reading Dune for school.
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At some point, you need to look yourself in the mirror and realize that what other people did to you does not define you as a person. You and your actions define who you are as a person. It's up to you to be a good person, in spite of all the evil you've faced. In fact, it should be because of the evil you see that it's good you do. Be the change you want in the world. Next time someone tells me that they're an asshole because they've had a bad life, I'm stabbing them in the eye with a spork.
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08-21-2007, 05:03 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Where anarchy reigns
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"The Day of the Jackal" by Frederick Forsyth.
Very inspirational, and well-written.
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08-23-2007, 02:23 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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well, just reading The Harlequin By Laurell K. Hamilton
also cant wait to get Blood Beast By Darren Shan
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08-23-2007, 02:25 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Down the Rabbit Hole
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I just finished Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer.
I really shouldn't have read it, because I absolutely hate the male lead. I wanted him to die throughout the whole series. Horribly.
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08-23-2007, 03:41 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Birmingham UK
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I'm reading
Emerging and fresh expressions of church, How are they authentically church and anglican?
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08-23-2007, 09:09 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: a sneeze away from San Francisco
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I'm reading Eclipse. I love it so much. As a teenage girl, I am allowed to have a huge crush on the male lead.
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At some point, you need to look yourself in the mirror and realize that what other people did to you does not define you as a person. You and your actions define who you are as a person. It's up to you to be a good person, in spite of all the evil you've faced. In fact, it should be because of the evil you see that it's good you do. Be the change you want in the world. Next time someone tells me that they're an asshole because they've had a bad life, I'm stabbing them in the eye with a spork.
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08-26-2007, 02:32 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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The Vampire Lestat
Twilight- Stephanie Meyers
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08-26-2007, 06:10 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Americaland's favorite panhandle!
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Ysabel - Guy Gavriel Kay
Just finished East of Eden for class last week (FINE, month)...
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08-26-2007, 06:16 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Ottawa, Canada
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Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
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A prank a day keeps the dog leash away - Jello Biafra
I want your skulls! I NEED your skulls! - Misfits
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08-26-2007, 06:46 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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Heir to the Shadows- Anne Bishop. It's the second in a trilogy that I absoultely adore. I only like certain fantasy authors, but she is one of my favorites.
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08-27-2007, 05:41 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Port Macquarie: The happiest place on earth. [If you've never been anywhere else] Australia.
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I just finished the last in Anne Bishop's Black Jewels triology and I was pleasantly suprised. Mostly because my mother recommended it to me and we have very differing tastes...most of the time anyway. But I really enjoyed it!
I devoured eclipse by Stephenie Meyer a few days ago. Her books never take me very long to read, but I love them all the same. I was very happy with Eclipse because I really hated New Moon, not because of the storyline, but mostly because it didn't have the magic of Twilight. I think with Eclipse some of that magic was recaptured.
RIGHT NOW I'm finishing off Lost Souls By Poppy Z Brite.
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