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Old 11-09-2010, 02:50 PM   #2801
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Finished The Duff. It was a refreshing change in the YA market. Will need to find a similar book.
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Old 11-25-2010, 04:55 PM   #2802
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Finally making a bit of time for Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. I bought it last August, its ridiculous I'm only able to get around to it now.
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Old 11-27-2010, 05:30 PM   #2803
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I'm reading ROOM. It's a book by Emma Donoghue about a five year old child who has lived his entire life in a shed
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Old 12-04-2010, 06:41 AM   #2804
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And now, i am reading Great Expectations. Yes I know this should have been one of the first books to read, but..at least I'm reading it now
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Old 12-04-2010, 02:41 PM   #2805
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Lenin: A New Biography by Dmitri Volkogonov.

-A very tasty read, Richard Pipes noted historian wrote this about the book...

"...a very forceful account that demolishes, on the basis of solid documentary evidence, the benign image of Lenin still held by many."
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Old 12-05-2010, 06:38 PM   #2806
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I read Misery over the weekend, starting The Stand now.
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Old 12-12-2010, 05:56 PM   #2807
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Re-reading The Grapes of Wrath. Man, that novel is fucking good.
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Old 12-22-2010, 08:33 AM   #2808
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I've just started reading Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. I'm also about halfway through Living Dolls by Natasha Walter.
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Old 12-22-2010, 12:36 PM   #2809
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Reading Turn Coat from Jim Butcher. I think I'm in love with Harry Dresden. I want to be done with this series so I can stop stressing about what's going to happen.
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Old 12-29-2010, 06:16 PM   #2810
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Reading Fluke by Christopher Moore.
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Old 12-30-2010, 03:00 AM   #2811
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Just finished Metamorphosis by Kafka, reading Notes From The Underground by Dostoevsky now.

I'm loving my ereader <3
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Old 12-30-2010, 04:57 AM   #2812
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Old 01-03-2011, 04:21 AM   #2813
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

I wanna know what the fuss is about!
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Old 01-03-2011, 04:48 PM   #2814
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

I wanna know what the fuss is about!
What is the fuss about? I wanna know too... Let us know when you've satisfied your curiosity.
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Old 01-03-2011, 09:02 PM   #2815
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The movies were fantastic but I never read the books because the covers looked like crap teen section books. I regret thinking that.


Reading On The Road by Kerouac and Cabal from Clive Barker.
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Old 01-07-2011, 03:41 AM   #2816
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I am reading nice books.
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Old 01-12-2011, 05:07 PM   #2817
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Reading Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard.
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Old 01-14-2011, 07:41 AM   #2818
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Reading Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
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Old 01-14-2011, 01:23 PM   #2819
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What is the fuss about? I wanna know too... Let us know when you've satisfied your curiosity.
It wasn't bad, I was interested enough to finish it in a short amount of time, and I gave it 3/5 stars on shelfari. However I do have a lot to complain about.

I like mysteries where you can follow the logic and evidence and come to your own conclusion. TGWTDT was a lot like a murder mystery game, if you ever played one. Lots of fun but everyone looks equally guilty by the time you make your guess, and its a lot of circumstancial evidence. Only the killer had no evidence beforehand, they just found ONE PIECE and it was like "What." and it got really surreal from there.

And *SPOILER!* I thought the relationship between Lisbeth and Mikael to be kinda creepy and stupid. He's in his 40s, she looks like she's 14. Larsson was a feminist and everyone kinda takes this book as a feminist mystery novel, and I'm not going to lie, thats what perked my interest, but I hate how most men are assholes with no redeeming qualities in this book, and Mikael, the lone feminist man, is a babe magnet because he's just so good and respectful to women. And there must be a romance between him and his much much younger partner, it would've been better if they just became good friends. And his on-again off-again girlfriend Berger is just there to be a drama device, there's not much to her purpose or personality at all save for sleeping with Mikael.

That said, it wasn't badly written or anything and I think a lot of the criticism about *SPOILER* a rrape scene being anti-feminist and "eroticizing rrape" was uncalled for, the dude clearly cared about women's issues and as a person who has a really really hard time reading rrape scenes, it wasn't overly prolonged and detailed, I thought, I've read some really graphic and I think eroticizing scenes before and it wasn't like that at all. He wanted it to be horrible but I don't think he had a good time writing about it.

Oh, I also read Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow this week, it was good! Not sure what to read next.
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Old 01-14-2011, 02:38 PM   #2820
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Old 01-15-2011, 01:30 AM   #2821
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If you enjoyed that book, i highly suggest reading Good Omens if you haven't already. It was co-written with Neil Gaimen (my favorite author) and is the most hilarious book i have ever read. It's about the apocolypse. A demon and an Angel decide they like the human race, so they try to prevent the apocolypse from taking place.

oh, did i mention i have really great breasts and would like to fuck everyone?
since i've already been accused of being a pussy hound - allow me to say that statement would be perfect if we were just sitting around right now, drinking a few beers and passing the time with nothing more than small talk.






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Old 01-22-2011, 04:16 PM   #2822
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Finished War Of The Worlds, reading The Wind Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami now.
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Old 01-23-2011, 09:32 AM   #2823
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I am onto reading Book II of Three Books of the Occult by Aggripa. I've been reading it here and there and decided to just get through all of them. Taking forever.
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Old 01-23-2011, 09:42 AM   #2824
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The full Necromonicon, tried reading select stories, now i have decided to read cover to cover.
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Old 01-23-2011, 07:05 PM   #2825
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On Writing by stephen King.
How to raise boys by (can't remember)
Hunger (by who knows??)
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