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05-08-2006, 07:36 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
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I'm reading Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.
It's written in too much of a "teen perspective" for my taste, but I like it.
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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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05-08-2006, 08:34 PM
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#702
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
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I'm reading Everything is Illuminated. It's a very good book although it's a bit disjointed because it has letters, stories about the past, and stories about the hero's journey. It's a good movie too.
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05-08-2006, 08:49 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 1,311
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i noticed alot of people reading Rice's "Vampire Chronicles", might i suggest "Vittorio" by Anne Rice. It's quite different from the Vampire Chronicles. You just have to read it.
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05-09-2006, 05:38 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 1,247
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I mentioned in an earlier post that I had started to read "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James... I finally finished it yesterday. ( very proud of mself. It was the first book I've finished in months. I was afraid I'd lost the capacity to finish a book. )
I'd recommend it to those of you who like psychological horror without gore, and are willing to put the effort in to get used to the author'S style, which consists of paragraph-long sentences.
While reading it, I would have to stop and reread a sentence at least once on every page. But it's worth it. He's very good at building up an atmosphere, and I can honestly say this book is one of the few that actually made me get gooseflesh. I really got a shock on one or two occasions!
Thrilling.
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Slowly my soul evaporates
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05-09-2006, 12:00 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: In the darkest corner of the smallest, most boring town in the universe.
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Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian
I'm reading Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.
It's written in too much of a "teen perspective" for my taste, but I like it.
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That book seems to have become the rage around here. I've read it
(as have my mother and sister), and I like it well enough, but I do wish that it hadn't been written for teenagers. The main character's clumsiness seems to have been overplayed a little as well, but it was a fun read.
I am currently re-reading Stoker's Dracula. It's been a little while. I'm also reading Le Morte D'Arthur at the same time, but it's for class so it doesn't count. *wink*
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"Poetry is the deification of reality." -Edith Sitwell
"Whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life . . . "
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05-09-2006, 06:30 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Your back pocket!
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I'm currently reading,"The Merlin Conspiracy," by Diana Wynne Jones. So far, I'm thinking it's pretty good.
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Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that ...
Author: George Carlin
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05-10-2006, 09:43 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Orlando, FL.
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I'm currently reading "Our Ultimate Reality", an ebook by Adrian Cooper. Its 600+ pages on the nature of the universe in both the micro and macrocosm, and discusses how ancient theories about life have been rediscovered by modern day Quantum Physicists.
It actually is very practical and has some great exercises in it for elevating consciousness. Geez, I think the last pleasure type book I read must have been like 10 years ago...which was Atlas Shrugged.
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05-11-2006, 06:30 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Southern California
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I'm currently reading Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice. It's been a couple of years since I've read any of the Vampire Chronicles, and this thread inspired me to pick up where I'd left off.
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05-12-2006, 02:29 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Austria
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Just reading the novel "Null negativ" by Garzaner. His first novel, 600 pages, German... Very impressing.
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05-25-2006, 05:37 AM
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Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 142
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Emily Brontё - Wuthering Heights
I'm astonished she only wrote one book, and it was rejected when it was first published.
Her sister, Charlotte Brontё is also a proficient author. I've been yearning to read one of her greatest novels, Jane Eyre.
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05-28-2006, 10:45 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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Previously today, The Time Machine from H.G. Wells.
Currently, Schrodinger's Cat, by Robert Anton Wilson.
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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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05-29-2006, 07:24 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Southern California
Posts: 130
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Almost finished with Mischief by Douglas Clegg.
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05-29-2006, 10:54 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: London
Posts: 155
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The Regulators - Richard Bachman
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"Like that old tale, the girl who wanted to become the best dancer in the world. "Yes," said the sorceress, "but each time you set your foot on earth will be like knives slashing." "If you can stand the pain, you will be granted your desire."
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05-29-2006, 06:10 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Blountsville, AL
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I spotted about a month ago this very intriguing book that really leapt out to me, but I didn't buy it. I've been looking for it for several weeks when last Saturday I returned to the exact same bookstore and purchased it. It was significantly damaged, and it was the only copy they had, but I purchased it regardless. Titled "Plucker" by Brom, this is a picturebook remnant of children's storybooks, but lasts about one-hundred-fifty pages and is NOT for children. The art within is so mellow and frightening and the story itself is such a dark one. In essence, a young boy's Jack-in-the-box becomes forgotten under his bed and witnesses the slow, painful death of the other forgotten toys. The boy's father brings a terrifying doll -a warder of evil spirits- from Africa to the boy, and something horrifying crawls out from it and begins to do strange things with the other forgotten toys. I haven't gotten far yet, but this is a very compelling story filled with beautiful art. I recommend this to everyone. 
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05-31-2006, 06:39 AM
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#715
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Southern California
Posts: 130
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The Backwoods by Edward Lee.
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05-31-2006, 06:52 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: London, UK
Posts: 2,065
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I just started "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak, and it's bloody excellent.
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05-31-2006, 09:48 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: buttmunch Houston, TX
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1984 ~ George Orwell
Gotta love summer reading assignments. It's funny 'cause I've never set foot in a private school before. I would enjoy it more if I didn't have to write a bloody paper on it.
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Imagination takes the shadows away
Imagination keeps the shadows away
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05-31-2006, 06:17 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: New Zealand
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Just started reading The "midnighters" by Scott Westerfield, but i've been reading bits from this non-fiction book called "The two Babylons" by Alexander Hislop, depicting the Catholic church as Babylon the great. It's a very factual book which was first printed in 1916, so it's had 90 years to be challenged.
You can read the book on the website.
http://www.biblebelievers.com/babylon/
Worth reading whether you're catholic or not.
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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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05-31-2006, 07:00 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: In hell
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read?
well am read sweet blood. It goog so far but ! of my friends told me the end is a big let down.
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05-31-2006, 07:06 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Australia. Finally back home.
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Well, I am reading "Sweet blood". It is good so far, but one of my friends told me that the end is a big let down.
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1. Your grammar sucks. I made some corrections in bold.
2. It's really hard to read your posts in red. Dark on dark doesn't work well.
3. It's polite to introduce yourself before posting.
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"It's strange to see how much people have changed through the years. Just for fun, see if you can find the point where we all turned bitter."
-- Chris Isaak
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06-01-2006, 04:44 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Australia. Finally back home.
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I'm reading "Trickster's Queen" by Tamora Peirce.
Generally I love her books but I've been really disappointed in this series. My friend told me that it gets better as the book continues so I'm perservering but I probably won't finish it.
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"It's strange to see how much people have changed through the years. Just for fun, see if you can find the point where we all turned bitter."
-- Chris Isaak
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06-02-2006, 02:01 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Austria
Posts: 311
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Anyone working on his/her thesis? Getting your PhD?
Are you PRO-crastination :-)
You´ve got to read " Piled higher & Deeper" online.
Click HERE to read PhD Online
Warning: By clicking on the above link you might support your addiction to procrastination!
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06-02-2006, 02:28 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: a house full of "catmons"
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I'm reading "Wolfhound: The Right to Duel" by Maria Semyonova. The title translation is mine; the book is originally Russian, and was, at least to mu knowledge, never translated to English. I'm reading it in Serbian translation.
It's the second book in the "Wolfhound" series (five are written so far). A fantasy with a bit of SF. The usage of Slavic mythology makes this book refreshing. What's even more refreshing is the lack of clichés -- just when you think that something is a cliché, it takes another direction. Intelligent, humorous, truly enjoyable.
There should be a movie soon, too.
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"If I had my way, we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes." - William S. Burroughs, "Queer"
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06-06-2006, 04:58 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Southern California
Posts: 130
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Currently reading She Loves Monsters by Simon Clark.
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06-06-2006, 06:01 PM
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#725
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 186
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I'm currently reading Angels and Demons by Dan Brown.
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