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11-05-2008, 05:34 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: In absentia.
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I have recently added Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim to my stack. I tend to read numerous books at one time.
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11-07-2008, 09:04 PM
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#1877
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Posts: 1,780
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Right now I'm reading 1984
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"Lucifer was an idiot, it wound up lord and master of nothing at all."
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11-07-2008, 09:18 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,065
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I just read The Masque of the Red Death over again. I liked the symbolism throughout the story.
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Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you. If I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.
-Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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11-07-2008, 09:53 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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The Lionness of Judah, a story about a a Jewish woman that joined the Belgian resistance to Nazi occupation, covering her underground activities as a lion tamer, until she was captured and sent to Auschwitz to be victim of Dr. Mengele.
I know! Crazy, huh?! Best part is she lives in my city.
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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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11-10-2008, 02:27 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: down under
Posts: 65
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^ radical Jewish woman
I'm reading a play, "Peer Gynt" by Henrik Ibsen. I can't wait to get to the bit when the mountain Trolls come out. hehehe!
And I went impulse shopping. I didn't even check if the library had The Vampire Lestat. I just had to buy it. Own it. Interview With the Vampire was...my heart.
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11-10-2008, 05:37 AM
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#1881
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Under a pile of red satin sheets.
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Oooh. The Hamlet- faulkner, Jane Eyre- Bronte, Uncle Silas-J,S. LeFanu
I have a problem with reading to many books at the same time.
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11-10-2008, 11:02 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Between Fascination and Fear
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I recently recieved a huge stack of books for my birthday, so I'm going to take a while getting thropugh those. They are;
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice,
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire,
Dubliners by James Joyce,
Days of War Nights of Love - CrimethInc.,
Stone Hotel and Rusty String Quartet - something Raegan,
The Mighty Book of Boosh,
Squee!'s Wonderful Big Giant Book of Unspeakable Horrors and JTHM Director's Cut - Jhonen Vasquez.
I'm thinking of reading Mysterious Skin, and maybe Choke by...uh, the man who wrote Fight Club. Can't remember his name.
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"I am a citizen of the universe!"
- Porucík Servadac, Na Komete (1970)
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11-10-2008, 01:40 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: a sneeze away from San Francisco
Posts: 2,144
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Othello, Midnight Never Come, and The Enigma of Adolescent Suicide. I'm doing a report on Teen Suicide as a result of our instant gratification culture and am reading way too many books on the subject
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Originally Posted by Joker_in_the_Pack
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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11-11-2008, 06:33 AM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: IL, USA
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The Gothic Revival: An Essay in the History of Taste by Kenneth Clark.
It has nothing to do with modern gothic stuff. It's about the architectural movement of the late 1700s and early 1800s.
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11-11-2008, 12:04 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
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wich one of you likes anne rice couse shes my favorite 
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11-12-2008, 06:24 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 6
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The God in Flight by Laura Argiri
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11-12-2008, 08:20 AM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Sugar Hill
Posts: 3,887
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"Watchmen" By Alan Moore.
Holy fucking shit is it incredible.
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11-12-2008, 01:12 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Chicago, ILL
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i know that every one is probably reading a book that has to real with personal issues or what ever, but right know i'm reading "breaking dawn" by stephine meyer, the author of the twilight saga. i have read all the other books, and yes i'm going to c the movie also.
if fact i have a quick question:
what r u guys opinon on the twilight saga?
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11-12-2008, 01:57 PM
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#1889
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: In front of a computer screen.
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Originally Posted by pixy_dust
I'm reading a play, "Peer Gynt" by Henrik Ibsen. I can't wait to get to the bit when the mountain Trolls come out. hehehe!
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I performed in a production of that particular play, we had to do a mountain troll dance.
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11-12-2008, 02:32 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Albany, NY
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Originally Posted by Despanan
"Watchmen" By Alan Moore.
Holy fucking shit is it incredible.
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Definitely good stuff. I hear they're making a movie out of it.
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11-12-2008, 02:48 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 330
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Blood and Guts in High School, by Kathy Acker.
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11-12-2008, 02:54 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Albany, NY
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Originally Posted by Disaffected Shoelaces
Blood and Guts in High School, by Kathy Acker.
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I just googled that. It looks interesting. I'll add it to my list. At the moment, I'm reading a book for school called Life in Black and White . It's about life in a slave-holding, antebellum community in Virginia. It's insufferably boring, but so's school at times.
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"I saw Judas Iscariot, carryin' John Wilkes Boothe." - Tom Waits
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11-12-2008, 03:00 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Sugar Hill
Posts: 3,887
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Originally Posted by PinstripesAndPithHelmets
Definitely good stuff. I hear they're making a movie out of it.
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Yeah, I've seen the trailer. Alan Moore has condemned the project, just like he did with LXG and V for Vendetta.
I'm cautiously optimistic about it. It's from the director of '300'. I liked '300' but I'm not sure the guy is really ready to tackle the complexity and subtlety that is Watchmen. You add on the fact that there's very little action in Watchmen (compared to most super-hero books) and a couple of self-important studio execs, it's a recipie for disaster.
I'm going to see it. It'll either be amazing, or a sin against nature.
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11-13-2008, 08:28 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Michigan, U.S.A.
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I don't have as much time for reading as I'd like to. I only got 1/4 of the way through Joseph Campbell's Primitive Mythology. So for now, I read off and on between the Dead Sea Scrolls in English, a book about society's perspectives on sex, and Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury- one of my favorites of all time.
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11-13-2008, 08:42 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Santiago, Chile
Posts: 18
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Die Bruderschaft der Runen by Michael Peinkofer. I started to read it about three days ago., it's look very interesting., it's set on Middle Ages in druids traditions.
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11-13-2008, 09:00 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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What Is Property? By Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.
I've taken ages with this fucking book!
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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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11-14-2008, 04:04 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: down under
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Originally Posted by a morbid curiosity
I performed in a production of that particular play, we had to do a mountain troll dance.
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seriously! I finished reading it & I'm only half certain of what the story is supposed to be about. I only know it would be a nightmare to design sets for it- 54821958099 locations.
so I've moved on to read Neil LaBute's "Seconds of Pleasure". I was impressed by his play "The Shape of Things" so I thought I'll read this novel of his- it's a series of short stories capturing moments in different couples' relationships. Not the sort of thing I'd usually read.
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11-14-2008, 10:31 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: In front of a computer screen.
Posts: 584
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Originally Posted by pixy_dust
seriously! I finished reading it & I'm only half certain of what the story is supposed to be about. I only know it would be a nightmare to design sets for it- 54821958099 locations.
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Yes, we didn't really have a set - just raised platforms. And dancers being metaphors for the sea, and stuff like that.
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11-14-2008, 02:09 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Colorado
Posts: 261
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Lol it a by Victor Nabokov and Cultures of Devotion by Frank Graziano. The latter is for class and the former is for fun.
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Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrateSarcasm=You poooooooor baby. You gonna go cwy to your mommy? Did she bring you your bottle a minute wate? You poooooooor wittle baby.
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11-15-2008, 07:07 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: California
Posts: 613
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I'm currently re-reading Blood Sucking Fiends by Christopher Moore.
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