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01-24-2007, 08:19 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 380
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Over the months I haven't been here, I finally finished Angels & Demons by Dan Brown! It was quite the thrilling read. Right now I'm just reading a 62 page christian literature booklet called Heaven And Hell: What Does The Bible Really Teach?
Its very interesting, it talks about whether Hell is eternal, if heaven happens immediately after death or until the ressurection, just basically, the afterlife and beyond. Its quite interesting. You can order it if you're interested in reading it as well: http://www.ucg.org/booklets/
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01-24-2007, 10:40 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: London, UK
Posts: 2,065
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Life Among the Pirates: The Romance and the Reality by David Cordingly. This was a book I should have read a long time ago. But does it corrupt my fantasy of one day owning a pirate ship and sailing the world? Not at all.
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01-24-2007, 11:04 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: St. Louis
Posts: 622
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"The Discovery of Poetry" by Frances Mayes
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"There is no way out of the mind"--Sylvia Plath
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01-25-2007, 07:52 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 205
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I am reading Withers Rain by J. Passarella
My opinion:
It is OK.
It is not at all horrible.
It is not something phenomenal either.
It is right down the middle.
Has anyone ever read the Wendy Ward novels by this person?
What do YOU think?
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01-25-2007, 09:59 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 33
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I'm reading an article in propaganda.
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01-25-2007, 10:01 AM
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#1031
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 33
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Originally Posted by deathbecomesme
The Dresden Files: Storm Front
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They now have the tv show for Dresden Files. i think its on friday night.
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01-25-2007, 02:22 PM
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#1032
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Houston Texas
Posts: 443
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Originally Posted by Skasteri
They now have the tv show for Dresden Files. i think its on friday night.
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Yes i know, and it's stupid and does not follow the books or the characters worth a damn really.
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"The Goths are beautiful, a vast depth of sub cultural,
aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that
as we did back in 1979. But not the post modern distortion
...the costume without the brain."
--Peter Murphy
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01-25-2007, 03:22 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: The Icy Forest of New England
Posts: 2,535
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I am reading the second book in the Eldest series. I already read Eragon and now I am reading Eldest. I absolutely love the book so far. I loved the first one, they are really good books.
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"Tigers love pepper, they hate cinnamon."
-Zach Galifianakis
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01-27-2007, 11:26 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Houston Texas
Posts: 443
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Originally Posted by Crying_Crimson_Tears
I am reading the second book in the Eldest series. I already read Eragon and now I am reading Eldest. I absolutely love the book so far. I loved the first one, they are really good books.
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Eldest wasn't as appealing to me as Eragon, it just was boring to me.
I am reading "The astonishing adventures of Fanboy and GothGirl. Its a signed copy i got at a book signing Barry Lyga did in my area at the musuem of art and lit. Its actually a very good book that has an interesting story to it.
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"The Goths are beautiful, a vast depth of sub cultural,
aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that
as we did back in 1979. But not the post modern distortion
...the costume without the brain."
--Peter Murphy
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01-27-2007, 11:34 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Somewhere Else, CA
Posts: 971
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I'm just reading "Communion" by Whitley Strieber. Not too sure why, but it's the only book that's managed to keep my attention lately, so I figure....why not?
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01-27-2007, 11:42 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Lithuania
Posts: 123
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Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince. HP is my bible
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01-29-2007, 05:23 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Out of my mind.
Posts: 999
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I've been stuck on a weird bounce around pattern, going from reading "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins, to "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy, to "War and Peace" by whoever it was, to "Clear and Present Danger" also bt Clancy, to "Rifles for Watie" by Harold Keith, to "The Sum of All Fears", also by Clancy.
I like Tom Clancy.
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"What have I taken away from you?"
"My irlelaulsiitoyn!."
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01-29-2007, 05:33 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Zootown
Posts: 426
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I'm currently reading "Into The Great Unknown". It's about John Wesley Powell's first trip down the Green and Colorado Rivers. Mmmmmm whitewater books. I'm also reading Steven King's "Insomnia" for about the fiftieth time.
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01-30-2007, 12:46 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: California
Posts: 152
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Cirque Du Freak. I love it.
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01-30-2007, 07:33 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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STILL reading The Complete Tales and Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe. That guy sure wrote a LOT. And I am learning how damn funny he could be too! He wrote a lot of humor, not just horror. I read Some Words with a Mummy last night, and tonight I will read The Literary Life of Thingum Bob Esq.
What a satirist!
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01-31-2007, 09:11 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: St. Louis
Posts: 622
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I'm currently reading The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake.
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"There is no way out of the mind"--Sylvia Plath
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01-31-2007, 09:13 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 951
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Sojourn (Forgotten Realms : Dark Elf, book 3) By R.A Salvitore
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01-31-2007, 10:18 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 1,021
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Just bought Stephen Baxters "Coalescent". I liked his book "Light of other days". I recommend it if anyone wonders what a world with no secrets would be like...
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02-02-2007, 11:48 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Aboard the Babel-13
Posts: 146
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"The Light Fantastic" by Terry Pratchett. It's quite good, as humour-fantasy sequels go. I was reading a kids' fantasy book a few days ago, but I can't remember the name. It had a character called Raffi in it, but that'all I can remember. It couldn't have been that great then, I suppose!
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02-02-2007, 01:05 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In desert part of Oregon, Central
Posts: 1,147
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A book I have had for about 3 years now. It's called Buckaroo Heart by Rick Steber. It sucks, unless you like western romances. But I have to read it for my humanities class. T_T
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
~Gilbert Highet
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02-06-2007, 06:17 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Hmmmm...I simply exist...
Posts: 79
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I have just started The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. I really enjoyed The Winter of Our Discontent, so I thought I'd read something else by him. I'm still trying to find Edgar Allan Poo for my two yearold. Humane, can you give me some help?
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02-06-2007, 06:46 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: With the Zombies
Posts: 2,208
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Reading Hanibal- Thomas Harris...
its so much fun!
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It's not so much the pain
It's more the actual knife
Pretending the picture is perfect
I cut myself to sleep
I close my eyes for a second
And curse my fragile soul
I scream to hide that I'm lonely
The echo calls my name
*ANIMAL CRACKERS*
http://www.myspace.com/persephone_x
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02-06-2007, 07:00 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 1,247
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French for Dummies.
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Petrified for the millionth time...
Slowly my soul evaporates
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02-06-2007, 07:52 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In desert part of Oregon, Central
Posts: 1,147
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The Innocent by ... Harlan Coben
Great book so far and I am half way through it!
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
~Gilbert Highet
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02-06-2007, 05:48 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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Originally Posted by Lynn377
I have just started The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. I really enjoyed The Winter of Our Discontent, so I thought I'd read something else by him. I'm still trying to find Edgar Allan Poo for my two yearold. Humane, can you give me some help?
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It is a webcomic (not hardcopy), here is the link:
http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Surreal...x.php?p=122518
You can always print them out, so that you may read them bedside to your 2 year old.
I fully intend to read them to my grandchild when he is old enough! 
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