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Old 09-23-2008, 12:44 PM   #1801
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"Russian in Exercises" and "Faery Tale" by Raymond E. Feist. Among others.
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Old 09-23-2008, 08:00 PM   #1802
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Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman, just finished up American Gods by Gaiman and I Am Legend by Richard Matheson.
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Old 09-23-2008, 08:44 PM   #1803
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I am currently, re-reading "Catcher in the Rye," and also reading "Misery," by Stephen King.
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Old 09-24-2008, 07:14 PM   #1804
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I've got a copy of Fragile Things sitting next to me right now, and American Gods is my favorite novel. Have you gotten to the American Gods novella in the back of Fragile Things yet?

Catcher in the Rye is awesome. I read that back in highschool and freaking loved it.

Currently I'm reading "The Alchemist" by Paulo Choelho.
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Old 09-24-2008, 08:32 PM   #1805
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I liked The Alchemist. It was pretty good.

I'm reading:
1984 by George Orwell
Black by Ted Dekker
Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks
Dragonquest by Donita K. Paul
Pet Semetary by Stephen King

As well as a myriad of old comic books.
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Old 09-25-2008, 10:40 AM   #1806
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Just finished Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh.
Now I'm reading Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski. IT'S GRIM! (In a good way.)
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Old 09-25-2008, 06:35 PM   #1807
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Brave new world (English assignment but its actually quite a good book)
The gay science-Nietzsche<3
Are you loathsoem tonight-Poppy Z. Brite
Skeleton crew-Stephen King

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fight Club (My friend David said it was actually a pretty deep book)
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And a whole wave of philosophy books. I swear I take one peak into that aisle in the bookstore and im stuck there for the next hour.
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Old 09-25-2008, 06:55 PM   #1808
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Essays - Sir Francis Bacon
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Old 09-25-2008, 08:04 PM   #1809
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Dover Beach - Matthew Arnold

Oh ... and Cannery Row ... Steinbeck
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Old 10-02-2008, 02:37 PM   #1810
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A Clockwork Orange. I never got around to reading it until now. I now realise just how much I was missing.
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Old 10-02-2008, 02:38 PM   #1811
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The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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Old 10-02-2008, 02:48 PM   #1812
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Now I'm reading Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski. IT'S GRIM! (In a good way.)
Awesome book - possibly his best novel.
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Old 10-02-2008, 04:32 PM   #1813
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As I Lay Dying- William Faulkner
Batman graphic novels
Notes From Underground- Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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Old 10-05-2008, 03:30 PM   #1814
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The Faerie Path-Frewin Jones
Garden of Shadows-V.C. Andrews
I love both of them!
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Old 10-05-2008, 09:48 PM   #1815
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Heh, I'm reading Mary Poppins. I love old children's books like that.

I also have absolutely nothing else to read, anyway. Although I recently finished "Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines" by Nic Sheff. A pretty amazing memoir of a meth addict. Finished it in two days. That's why I have nothing to read: I read way too damn fast.
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Old 10-05-2008, 10:15 PM   #1816
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I'm trying to stretch everything out because I normally go through things so fast, so I'm still on Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame by Bukowski and Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman, and after that I shall start Neverwhere.

BUT, I got into Beta so my mother is going to take me out to buy some new books. I want to get Good Omens and/or Smoke and Mirrors, Killing Joke, and maybe Catcher in the Rye as I have managed to *not* read that by now. I'm also going to look for a decent compilation of Lovecraft stories again.
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Old 10-07-2008, 08:38 AM   #1817
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Old 10-07-2008, 08:48 AM   #1818
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currently "The gods themselves" - Isaac Asimov
next either "Faust" - Goethe or, "Slaughterhouse 5" - Kurt Vonnegut.
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Old 10-08-2008, 01:19 PM   #1819
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The Secret History, by Donna Tartt. It's compulsive as fuck, even though the climax came on the first page.
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Old 10-08-2008, 03:15 PM   #1820
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Twilight. My art teacher strongly requested that I read it because her daughter bought the thing and she wanted it to be used for more than 3 days. It is a 1st draft account of a 15-year-old's vampire fantasy. That's what it's about, that's how it's written, that's how it reads. It's bloody fucking frustrating to read and has only served to deepen my mistrust of vampire novels >.< At least it's quick... kind of like being shot in the foot.
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Old 10-08-2008, 03:17 PM   #1821
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If my Art teacher strongly requested I read Twilight I would quit.
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Old 10-08-2008, 03:24 PM   #1822
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If my art teacher suggested that I read Twilight I would strongly suggest that she should aquire a better taste in literature.
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Old 10-08-2008, 03:25 PM   #1823
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I would just start turning in pieces of art with no effort put into them, based on the book.
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Old 10-08-2008, 06:17 PM   #1824
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HAHAHA. She hasn't read it, I don't think, and wanted the book to be used more than once.
However I can't say I wasn't warned because I did read that thread about it, though like anything that screams "THIS IS SO [bad/disturbing/shitty/fucking irritating], it made me want to see how bad it was >.< And all your keystrokes, for all their vitriol, have not done it justice.

Oh well. My fault. Maybe I'll forget about it sometime.

*goes back and reads thread* She's 34?
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Old 10-08-2008, 06:27 PM   #1825
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I used to like Twilight until I realized how bad the vocabulary and imagery was. I also noticed how easy it must have been to write because it's in first person. I only read it the first time because I heard from a friend that it was a good teen vampire romance. Now I see it as a half-assed attempt to write a good book.
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