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02-21-2007, 01:43 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Trapped in Bermuda
Posts: 29
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The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
I'm on page 126 and I don't believe anything of much substance has happened yet. Or I could just be stupid, which is highly likely.
However it's easy to read when you know there'll be some lesbian sex SOMEWHERE.
I'm slightly sad, don't you agree?
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02-21-2007, 12:28 PM
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#1077
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Querétaro, México
Posts: 53
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House of leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. Fun book so far.
Next in list is Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman.
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02-21-2007, 01:48 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Cruddy little town in the heart of midwestern farm country
Posts: 21
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I've been re-reading my Amelia Atwater-Rhodes collection, I'm still a little saddened by 'Falcon Dance' and I miss her Vampire novels. But for school I've got to read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison, and I do like it, but it just can't keep me interested for very long.
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02-21-2007, 02:15 PM
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#1079
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Yew City
Posts: 2,413
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Luna- House of Leaves is a very digable read. Check out teh Whalestoe Letters and Onyl revolutions, also!
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02-21-2007, 02:24 PM
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#1080
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Inland Empire
Posts: 277
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I'm reading The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris. Amazing book so far.
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02-21-2007, 02:33 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Yew City
Posts: 2,413
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Red Dragon is actually a better read- you'll enjoy it if you like Silence!!!!
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02-21-2007, 03:52 PM
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#1082
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 3,360
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Discourse on the Method - Rene Descartes.
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02-21-2007, 06:12 PM
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#1083
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Down ze wabbit hole
Posts: 752
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Currently reading both Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Turn of the Screw by..Henry James, i think.
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O loneliness, O hopelessness
To search the ends of time,
For there is in all the world
No greater love than mine.
-Annie Lennox, Love Song For A Vampire-
Rouge Z. Hatter has FINALLY returned to Gnet!
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02-22-2007, 07:13 PM
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#1084
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Minnesota.
Posts: 57
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I am reading Brave New World, too!
I am reading it for English class, and I like it so far. We just finished reading Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and I really liked that book.
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02-24-2007, 03:45 PM
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#1085
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Bumblefuck, PA
Posts: 55
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I'm reading a few things;
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs
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02-24-2007, 07:38 PM
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#1086
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Australia/UK (originally)
Posts: 162
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A book?  Sorry I'm in a funny mood....I'm actually re-reading Dracula.
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02-24-2007, 09:12 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 1,021
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I think what I'm reading now is called "Shores of tomorrow" (don't know authour). It's ok, not the best.
I do like Orson Scot card though. His Ender series are pretty good.
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02-25-2007, 07:51 AM
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#1088
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Liverpool, UK
Posts: 12
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I'm currently half way through Haunted by Chuck Palahnuik.
It's brilliant but fairly vomit inducing at times, esp. the first story.
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02-25-2007, 02:20 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Amidst a shallow grave
Posts: 1,211
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I'm reading the Necronomicon and the Importance of Being Earnest.
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02-25-2007, 03:56 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 36
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I was in near the end of Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel a month ago, but got so caught up in school work I have forgotten about it. I should finish it up sometime soon.
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02-28-2007, 03:21 AM
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#1091
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Earth...
Posts: 194
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I'm reading Dis/connected by Nick Barham and various other textbooks.
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In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed – they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo, Brunelleschi, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
- Orson Wells
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02-28-2007, 05:49 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Norway
Posts: 1,446
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I finally got hold of a copy of 1984, it will arrive in a couple of days...
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03-01-2007, 04:54 PM
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#1093
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: The Icy Forest of New England
Posts: 2,535
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"Specials" by Scott Westerfeld
The last book in the Uglies Trilogy. 
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03-01-2007, 05:10 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Hmmmm...I simply exist...
Posts: 79
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Just finished "Girl With a Pearl Earring" Thoroughly enjoyed it. I bet the movie isn't nearly as good. Anybody seen it?
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03-01-2007, 06:34 PM
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#1095
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Yew City
Posts: 2,413
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The Story of Chicago May by Nuala O'Faolain
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03-01-2007, 06:41 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 1,021
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About 1984
It's good cyntox, a bit depressing. Although allot of people try and draw similarities between it and the US, I don't think it comes anywhere near being accurate. I do believe it's a mirror copy of North Korea though, and I mean down to a tee, even the propaganda speakers ( I'll tell you once you read it).
The Author is interesting. He was a socialist but didn't like russian communism. Can't remember where he was from though... England I think? Great read and should be required in schools.
I would also recommend "Stranger in a Strange Land". Get the uncensored version (not that it's more sexier just has more info) It was censored for soem reason back then but can't tell why now....
I think it's a good look at how society sees the outside and how we percieve "alien" things in our culture.
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03-04-2007, 03:43 PM
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#1097
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Jersey Shore
Posts: 51
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Dracula Was a Woman by Raymond McNally. Non-fiction about Elizabeth Bathory.
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03-05-2007, 12:48 AM
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#1098
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Gothamburg
Posts: 230
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Originally Posted by Lord Macabre
Dracula Was a Woman by Raymond McNally. Non-fiction about Elizabeth Bathory.
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Ohh, gotta get my hands on that.
I'm still reading Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice. Will finally finish it soon.
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Because they know
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03-10-2007, 09:12 PM
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#1099
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Philly Region
Posts: 616
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I just started Tolstoy's Anna Korenina. So far quite possibly one of my favorite books so far, though I'm hardly that far into it, so it is subject to change.
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03-10-2007, 11:09 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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Finished The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and currently reading A Clockwork Orange.
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I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
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