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06-08-2007, 11:54 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Southern California
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Requiem for the Devil by Jeri Smith-Ready. Not at all my usual genre preference, but still decent nonetheless.
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06-08-2007, 02:53 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,678
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - HP Lovecraft.
It's part of a collection that has to go back to the library tomorrow, but it turns out they have an omnibus, so I'm getting that out so I can finish all of the short stories Lovecraft wrote.
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06-08-2007, 03:10 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Posts: 468
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Originally Posted by FireAndIce
when this kind of truth doesn´t make one happy is it because he thinks about loosing lower things and animal pleasure of them...when you enjoy the beauty of pure thought it makes you feel chaste and heavenly...and that frees you from the addiction to life, and that is the real application  of "sad guys" philosophy.... |
However true it may seem while you read their works, after you finish the pessimistic philosophers' books and you sit and reflect upon them, one question instantly pops into your mind: what is WRONG with these people?! Of course, one can find pleasure in merely thinking and philosophising, but a bit of hedonism never hurt anybody. After all, nobody knows the purpose of our existence, so we may as well make the most of it in any possible way we can.
As for the addiction to life... I don't think suicide would serve any purpose. Life is worth living, and when you feel that something is in the way of your well-being and it endangers your existence, that factor must be removed. However difficult a situation may seem, there is always a way out of it.
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"I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me." - Charles Baudelaire
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06-18-2007, 06:11 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 47
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Lisey's Story by Stephen King
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06-18-2007, 09:45 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: no matter from which location, its far, too far
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As for the addiction to life... I don't think suicide would serve any purpose. Life is worth living, and when you feel that something is in the way of your well-being and it endangers your existence, that factor must be removed. However difficult a situation may seem, there is always a way out of it.[/quote]
No one says that you should commit a suicide, of course. To get rid of addiction to life is a philosophical internal and balanced state...it helps you to get rid of agression and selfinvolvement, to get rid of fear of unexpected and death...It is very similar to dissolving of passions in buddism...but "sad guys" really lack something...they are extremly selfish and self-centered theoretics...no compassion, no feeling for others, no mercy...
"However difficult a situation may seem, there is always a way out of it." ...but you often cannot change external influences on you...there is no way out from burning car after accident with your head halved, to be very cruel...wise men say you can change yourself and get balanced and adapted internally any time...I dare to not agree...only thing to do if you survive is to take a "moral" and learn as much as you can after...if there is an"after"...bad things just happen...
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06-18-2007, 10:53 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Somewhere in this Universe, that's all I'll say.
Posts: 713
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I'm reading a number of books at the moment actually.
"Freakonomics" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
"I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
"Collected poems" by Anna Akhmatova
"I shook hands with the devil" by Roméo D'Allaire
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Yawn. This is rather tedious, is it not?
www.chansondeplume.blogspot.com
^Mon blog d'ecriture en francais. Veuillez lire et commenter!
Translation: My writing blog in french. Feel free to read and comment.
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06-18-2007, 11:20 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 16
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Christopher Moore's YOU SUCK a love story. Very funny, he is a great writer.
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06-18-2007, 11:50 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Camden, london, uk...
Posts: 552
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An adult fan fiction based on the animated anime series naruto.
Not for naughty reasons I just seem to like it.
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06-18-2007, 12:06 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: A doll house
Posts: 451
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
definatly recommend to those interested in human behavior
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To die would be an awfully big adventure -Peter Pan
I'd like to do more than survive, I'd like to rub it in your face. -The Dresden Dolls
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06-18-2007, 12:08 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Flushing, NY
Posts: 3,206
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Brighton Beach Memoirs. Actually, I finished it a few weeks ago. Hilarious play.
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"Live for today, but know that tomorrow always comes- even if not for you."-MollyMac
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06-18-2007, 12:12 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: In a magical cupcake world.
Posts: 878
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Miss Manner's guide to excrutiatingly correct behavior.
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The Iceman
...yes.
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06-18-2007, 12:26 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In a black hole with a black moon
Posts: 2,658
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Good goth ;-) I adore my current reads, 'Wormwood' by the notoriuty whore Poppy Z. Brite, and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. G~!Hey TISMINE HEY GET ON MSN~~!!!
Goth Forever
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"I think in some way I wanted it to end, even if it meant my own destruction."
-Jeffrey Dahmer
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06-18-2007, 01:14 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: The Icy Forest of New England
Posts: 2,535
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I just got done reading "Mercy" by Jodi Picoult, and it was one of the most awesome books ever!!!! I would suggest it to anyone. And now I am reading "The Hard Way" by Lee Child. That's a pretty good book. But not really as good as "Mercy."
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"Tigers love pepper, they hate cinnamon."
-Zach Galifianakis
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06-18-2007, 06:29 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: In a magical cupcake world.
Posts: 878
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Originally Posted by Vyvian Blackthorne
Good goth ;-) I adore my current reads, 'Wormwood' by the notoriuty whore Poppy Z. Brite, and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. G~!Hey TISMINE HEY GET ON MSN~~!!!
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Eheheh...I need to download it. I don't have it in Florida...
Started a new book today! Nocturnes by John Connolly.
My mom just screamed. I wonder if she found another toad in the toilet.
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06-20-2007, 12:36 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 16
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Just started The serpent's Gift~ gnostic reflections on the study of religion By Jeffrey J. Kripal.
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06-24-2007, 12:31 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Twilight Zone, CA
Posts: 37
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I'm currently reading "Complete Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens". Afterwards, be reading "The Burning Baby & Other Ghosts" by John Gordon. I'm just on the retro-ghost stories kick right now.
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06-24-2007, 12:40 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,332
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I just finished reading the complete works of H.P Lovecraft... again. Going to buy something with Burroughs this week methinks.
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Wasted forever, on speed, bikes and booze.
"Meow. Mew. Mrow. Maow? Miaox." - Lovely Delkaetre speaks cat.
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06-24-2007, 03:29 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 11
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I'm reading 'The Embrace' by Aphrodite Jones, 'Blue Bloods' by Melissa de la Cruz, 'Cell' by Stephen King and 'Blood Canticle' by Anne Rice.
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06-24-2007, 04:14 AM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 2,126
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I'm currently sick and lacking of energy to go and try to find a decent novel in the library, so any reccomendations for a book that is full of health germs would be great, please.
Currently reading: The Ellie Chronicals ~ John Marsden.
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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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06-24-2007, 09:36 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: In Your Pants, PA.
Posts: 1,918
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A collection of Emily Dickenson poems.
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06-24-2007, 09:38 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Posts: 107
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I just started Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and I'm re-reading Flowers in the Dustbin by James Miller.
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06-24-2007, 12:05 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Yew City
Posts: 2,413
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"Eating Well for Optimum Health" by Andrew Weil, M. D.
Paying for the whole seat, only using the edge.
And "Conditioning for Dancers". Again, not gripping, but very informative
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I am The Mighty Cooch!!!!!!
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06-24-2007, 02:48 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 18
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Originally Posted by Methadrine
I just finished reading the complete works of H.P Lovecraft... again.
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Sweet. Do you have a favorite piece?
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06-24-2007, 02:51 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Flushing, NY
Posts: 3,206
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DAVE BARRY SLEPT HERE-Dave Barry
Not exactly constructive reading...
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"Live for today, but know that tomorrow always comes- even if not for you."-MollyMac
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06-24-2007, 02:54 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,332
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Originally Posted by Ratchet
Sweet. Do you have a favorite piece?
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One of these three I think, I can't really decide: 'At the mountains of madness', 'The call of cthulhu' or 'The shadow out of time'. I like the ones that hints about the mythos, and dark, brooding horrors from cyclopean cities in places even time seem to have forgot, the most.
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Wasted forever, on speed, bikes and booze.
"Meow. Mew. Mrow. Maow? Miaox." - Lovely Delkaetre speaks cat.
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