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01-11-2009, 10:57 AM
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#2001
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Romania
Posts: 85
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Faust by Goethe 
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01-15-2009, 11:15 AM
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#2002
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 523
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I bought 'Anna Karenina' today. Will get stuck in later on.
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I can only please one person a day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow's not looking good either.
I was a vegetarian until I lost my virginity, and a wise man said to me 'do you not feel guilty now, having had all that meat inside you?'
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01-17-2009, 03:04 AM
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#2003
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 265
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The Judge is currently perusing Journey to the End of the Night, by Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
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Originally Posted by Apathy's_Child
I hate that you're forever devouring stuff I didn't find until a few years after you. Makes me feel like I wasted my teenage years.
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"Son, you're 22 years old and you're spending your Saturday afternoon in bed with a girl. You're wasting your life."
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01-17-2009, 04:10 AM
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#2004
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 3,360
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Originally Posted by Xombie
That's a lie. If you really didn't like Twilight, you wouldn't even waste your time on the sequel.
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You want to know what a bigger waste of time is? Ragging on people who have, or are currently reading Twilight.
Re-reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.
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01-17-2009, 06:15 AM
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#2005
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Albany, NY
Posts: 922
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I'm finishing Ender's Shadow. It's quite good.
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"I saw Judas Iscariot, carryin' John Wilkes Boothe." - Tom Waits
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01-17-2009, 11:52 AM
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#2006
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: In front of a computer screen.
Posts: 584
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L.olita by Vladimir Nabokov... but I'm doing a lot more writing than reading at present.
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01-18-2009, 05:14 AM
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#2007
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 123
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Im reading Dracula for the first time ever. I adore this book and im only halfway through. Its sure to become one of my favorites.
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01-22-2009, 12:09 PM
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#2008
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 330
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The Devils by Dostoyevsky.
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01-23-2009, 06:37 PM
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#2009
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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Memoirs of the Crusades - Villehardouin De Joinville
Wow...you think we have problems with the religious right now, back then they were religious right, left and center! Abandon your farm where you at least had food, march on foot thousands of miles (if you lasted that long) and die to leave your bones in the desert just because a pope got up and told you to do it or you would go to hell. And if you lived long enough to get there, you fight the infidels (yes, the Christians called the Muslims that!) giving them the choice to convert to Christianity, or die. Jesus obviously would not approve. Talk about high pressure sales!
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01-24-2009, 08:31 AM
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#2010
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,065
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Coraline- Neil Gaiman
Heard about the movie coming out here in the U.S. and wanted to be able to compare them them to one another.
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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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01-24-2009, 10:02 AM
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#2011
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 1,021
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Guilty: Liberal victims and their assault on America.
Very funny with lots of statistics.
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01-25-2009, 09:29 AM
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#2012
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: hull, uk
Posts: 58
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Have just finished Matheson's I am Legend and now reading Bram Stoker's Dracula
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01-26-2009, 12:37 PM
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#2013
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Heaven and Earth
Posts: 2,606
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I'm on the third book in V. C. Andrew's "Dollanger" series, If There Be Thorns.
It's not the best literature I've ever read, but I just can't stop reading! I'm going through a book every couple of days! They're like crack and an impending train wreck at the same time. XD
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"Follow your bliss..."
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01-26-2009, 06:04 PM
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#2014
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,065
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Originally Posted by Tam Li Hua
I'm on the third book in V. C. Andrew's "Dollanger" series, If There Be Thorns.
It's not the best literature I've ever read, but I just can't stop reading! I'm going through a book every couple of days! They're like crack and an impending train wreck at the same time. XD
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You spelled Dollanganger wrong, and it's true that she's not the best writer... but at least it's not Twilight.
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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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01-26-2009, 06:15 PM
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#2015
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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Emergence: From Unpredictability to Self-Organization, by Achim Stephan
I'm taking a whole seminar class on this philosophical issue of Emergence. I finally feel I'm in college!
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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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01-28-2009, 09:21 AM
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#2016
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Berlin, Germany
Posts: 22
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so am i............. though i wish i was back in those times so no one despises us...............ignore and forget.............forgive..............
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01-28-2009, 10:54 AM
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#2017
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Earth
Posts: 2,000
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Lee Child's Jack Reacher series. Reacher is a ex- military cop, who gets into adventures and other stuff whether he likes to or not.
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01-29-2009, 10:32 AM
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#2018
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Israel.
Posts: 467
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Gai Gabriel K.'s "Tigana", one of the best books I've red recently.
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01-29-2009, 11:15 AM
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#2019
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Australia
Posts: 291
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Bang band sixxx
a suggestion from a friend.
Its not great.
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01-29-2009, 04:02 PM
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#2020
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,065
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Wings of a Falcon-Cynthia Voigt... I give it a 3.8 on a 1 to 5 scale.
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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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01-29-2009, 09:20 PM
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#2021
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Lost City of Atlanta
Posts: 326
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Just got through reading The Hellbound Heart. Now reading Dragon Strike by E.E. Knight.
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01-30-2009, 11:14 PM
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#2022
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Somewhere over the rainbow?
Posts: 798
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I'm about to finish Renfield: Slave of Dracula which, as the title suggests, is another author's interpretation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, as seen through the eyes of Renfield. It's rather entertaining and much easier to get through than the original, I think, haha. I'm also working my way through Blaze by Stephen King (well, Richard Bachman), and a few other books. No, I don't know why I feel the need to read three or four at once. xP
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He said "It's all in your head"
And I said, "So's everything," but he didn't get it
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01-31-2009, 12:30 PM
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#2023
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: yes
Posts: 227
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at the moment Im reading the screen.....other than that I'm reading another interpratation of the faust tradgedy...I also have a book on scottish folklore I just finshed, and i'm starting the comunist manifesto by marx
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What power would hell have if those inpisoned there could not dream of heaven?
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01-31-2009, 09:52 PM
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#2024
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Twilight Zone, CA
Posts: 37
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Finished:
The Ape, The Idiot, & Other People by W.C. Morrow
Black Spirits & White by Ralph Adams Cram
Strange Tales by Hanz Heinz Ewers
Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow
Rashomon by Ryunasuke Akutagawa
Reading:
Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell
My Fantoms by Theophile Gautier
Conte Cruel aka The Scaffold & Other Cruel Tales by Villiers de l'isle Adam
Vampire Soul & Other Sardonic Tales by Villiers de l'isle Adam
The Tenant by Roland Topor
'Nuff said.
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02-01-2009, 01:12 AM
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#2025
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: The Twilight Zone
Posts: 101
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
and re-reading A Clockwork Orange
Ive read it 3 times so far and still have yet to see the movie.
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