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Old 11-28-2009, 07:41 AM   #2451
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Old 11-28-2009, 07:45 AM   #2452
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Dracula... But I can`t seem to get past the 200th page.. After Lucy's dead, why continue?
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Old 11-28-2009, 08:41 AM   #2453
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Vampires, Burial and Death: Folklore and Reality by Paul Barber.
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Old 12-01-2009, 09:22 AM   #2454
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Mother of the Believers. Not something I'd normally read, but a pretty insightful tale (albeit fictional) about the birth of Islam.
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Old 12-02-2009, 08:44 PM   #2455
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Old 12-02-2009, 09:14 PM   #2456
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Old 12-06-2009, 06:27 AM   #2457
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Old 12-06-2009, 01:59 PM   #2458
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I am currently reading the Freddy vs Jason vs Ash TP.
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Old 12-10-2009, 03:18 PM   #2459
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I finished Dracula.
Reading The Pillars of the Earth. That`s a big-ass book.
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Old 12-10-2009, 04:10 PM   #2460
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This is like the "What are you listening to" thread but with a twist.

What book are you readin right now???

I am reading Drawn Blood by Poppy Z. Brite
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.
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Old 12-10-2009, 05:04 PM   #2461
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"Mysteries of the unexplained"
It's a book full of all sorts of strange things like UFO sightings, Strange deaths, weird coincidences etc.
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Old 12-11-2009, 12:56 AM   #2462
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A play.

Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Der Besuch der alten Dame. It's so awesome it may actually be my favourite written piece.
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Old 12-12-2009, 12:25 AM   #2463
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Vampires, Burial and Death: Folklore and Reality by Paul Barber.
I absolutely love this book. I've read it twice.
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Old 12-12-2009, 12:27 AM   #2464
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I am currently reading a selection of essays on PR by Edward Bernays for my next essay.
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Old 12-12-2009, 04:18 AM   #2465
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The mammoth book of Wolf-men.

Trying to find some decent werewolf fiction
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Old 12-14-2009, 07:53 PM   #2466
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The mammoth book of Wolf-men.

Trying to find some decent werewolf fiction
I saw that in a bookstore, is any of it any good?

I just finished reading Johnny The Homicidal Maniac and Squee, both by Jhonen Vasquez.
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Old 12-14-2009, 08:31 PM   #2467
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I finished Duma Key by who else but Stephen King today, it was actually pretty good. I also in the last week finished Skeleton Crew and reread Let The Right One In. I'm reading The Rose Labyrinth now by Titania Hardie, I was told that I'm not allowed to buy anymore books until after Christmas because a few people apparently bought me books that they're afraid I'll buy on my own. I can't keep that promise since with no computer I'm bored when home, so I decided to go for a cheap book that I normally wouldn't buy.

So far I don't like her style of writing, its not terrible but she doesn't really describe settings very well, I have no idea how to picture anything. Sometimes I don't even know where the character is supposed to be at all. Still I love puzzles and the book came in a box with papers with all of the riddles and each piece of paper is also a puzzle piece, so it'll keep me occupied. Not too bad for six dollars.
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Old 12-16-2009, 08:20 PM   #2468
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Scratch that about the writing not being terrible. It was horrendous, and I want to believe that she basically published the first draft because there was a lot of things that didn't make any sense. One minute they're inside a building, the next they're outside on a pier, then they look back on the incident and refer it to being on a boat. Two characters say they share a birthday in October but then one of them has another birthday in March? All the characters are beautiful and have no flaws, and all the women look like they are nineteen, and whats with books who try to be romantic make it so that the woman is a virgin but the man is older and has a lot of sexual experience?

And the setting description was not only terrible, but she was more interested in describing what they were wearing rather than where the fuck they were. Sex scenes were also terrible. Women can't handle having their clits touched, guys, so don't do it. They don't want pleasure, they just want to feel like they are one with you. The sentence "that would have appealed to my mother's gentle feminism" irritated me, and I gave up over HALF way through when they got to only ONE fricken puzzle. I also found out the author's only other books are books about witchcraft, and boy howdy does the pretentiousness seep through.

Feels good to rant about a shitty book, and nothing like something so terrible to put me in the mood to finish the more heady books I had started, finishing Dharma Rain: Sources Of Buddhist Environmentalism now.
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Old 12-16-2009, 08:30 PM   #2469
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well, let's see... half way through The Great Perhaps, by Joe Meno (sp?) , finished the Razor's Edge by Maugham yesterday, a short story collection from Alfred Bester the day before, went through Cannery Row and East of Eden about two weeks ago, (sadly, my education previous to this has not included Steinbeck, I am in awe), that's all i can remember at the moment. Looking for more GOOD old school science fiction, psychological thrillers, and also good examples of characterization and well crafted plot (any genre).
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Old 12-19-2009, 09:18 PM   #2470
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The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (I cracked, but again I'm pretty sure no one would get it for me, pretty sure I'm getting fiction or Buddhist books.)

Its sad to read how much pressure was put on women to become wives and mothers and expect nothing more out of life, and I didn't know that it actually got worse after World War Two, before then employment outside the home and higher education was more common, the Emancipated Woman was more common as a character of fiction and an ideal. It talks about how housewives under this ideal became depressed and felt guilty for wanting more, and how it was the problem without a name. Its disgusting to read how people blamed them and their education for ever wanting more, saying it was their fault for not living up to their femininity, saying that career women emasculated their husbands and wrecked havoc on their families.

It was pretty revolutionary in its time (1963) but the preface she wrote in 1997 was depressing to read too. Since Clinton was in office she must have felt good about the state for women and basically said how wonderful women have it now, I stopped reading it when she said that abortion is now established as a protected right and will become a non issue very shortly (remember, 1997) since birth control is far more effective. Yeah, about that >.> Wonder what she thought of the Bush years, but sadly she died in 2006 so we can't ask what she thinks of Tillier's assassination or how **** victims were and still are charged for their **** kits.

Also she ignores women of minority and working class women a lot, who basically always had to work outside the home, but otherwise, still a really interesting read.
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Old 12-19-2009, 09:26 PM   #2471
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just started on Dead Man Walking, the one written by a nun trying to defend the life of a death row inmate in Louisiana. They made a movie about it a few years ago, never saw it though.
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Old 12-21-2009, 12:53 AM   #2472
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Old 12-21-2009, 02:35 AM   #2473
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Leslie Fiedler's Love and Death in the American Novel.
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Old 12-21-2009, 06:00 AM   #2474
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Leslie Fiedler's Love and Death in the American Novel.
Excellent, excellent book IMO. I read it in 2007.

I'm currently reading The First Gothics: A Critical Guide To The English Gothic Novel by Fred Frank. It covers 500 gothic novels. I'm up to my armpits in trembling underage Adelines and Mirandas and they all have uncontrollable urges to explore dark damp caves at night.
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Old 12-23-2009, 11:58 AM   #2475
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