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12-23-2008, 07:46 AM
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#1951
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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The Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal - I don't know who wrote the original Sanskrit, but the translation is by Swami Prabhavananda and Frederick Manchester.
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12-23-2008, 09:39 AM
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#1952
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Scotland
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Currently it's Cell by Stephen King.
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12-26-2008, 03:39 PM
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#1953
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: At my computer desk, or within the pages of a book.
Posts: 103
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"Rhapsody: Child of Blood" by Elizabeth Hayden. I'm going back and reading the earlier books in The Symphony of Ages series before I start "The Assassin King"... I definitely recommend these!!
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12-26-2008, 06:55 PM
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#1954
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: In front of a computer screen.
Posts: 584
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Still Dead Souls, but I also read Hamlet and Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen this week. (I didn't like it much.)
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12-26-2008, 07:54 PM
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#1955
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 182
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Haunted by Chuck Palaniuk
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12-27-2008, 07:02 AM
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#1956
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: IL, USA
Posts: 754
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Originally Posted by a morbid curiosity
Still Dead Souls,
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What do you think of Dead Souls? It's on my want-to-read list but I'm not sure I'll ever actually get to it.
I'm now reading The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film by Michael Weldon. I've consulted this book for over a decade but now I'm actually reading it straight thru and listing all the movies I want to see.
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12-27-2008, 07:08 AM
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#1957
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 22
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Right now, I'm reading 'Twilight' to see what all the hype was about.
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12-27-2008, 08:13 AM
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#1958
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: In front of a computer screen.
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Originally Posted by Man In Room 5
What do you think of Dead Souls? It's on my want-to-read list but I'm not sure I'll ever actually get to it.
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Nah, read it. It's really funny and pretty easy, you'll probably whiz through it in a couple of hours. Just your standard Gogol stuff - like his short stories, only he brilliantly succeeded in maintaining the craziness for 400+ pages.
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12-27-2008, 01:12 PM
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#1959
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: At my computer desk, or within the pages of a book.
Posts: 103
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Okay, I'm setting myself up for bashing here... but I'm reading yaoi fanfiction at the moment. As well as still working on "Rhapsody" :P
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12-27-2008, 04:08 PM
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#1960
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Between Fascination and Fear
Posts: 1,116
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick.
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"I am a citizen of the universe!"
- Porucík Servadac, Na Komete (1970)
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12-27-2008, 08:33 PM
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#1961
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 123
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Again.
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"And as always, innocent like roller coasters. Fatality is like ghosts in snow and you have no idea what you're up against because I've seen what they look like. Becoming perfect as if they were sterling silver chainsaws going cascading......."
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12-27-2008, 08:38 PM
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#1962
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: At my computer desk, or within the pages of a book.
Posts: 103
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... Make that Velvet Goldmine yaoi fanfiction. And, yet again, "Rhapsody". Stupid thing's too long...
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12-29-2008, 03:09 PM
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#1963
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Hesperus, CO
Posts: 26
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Journey into Darkness by John Douglas
it's a book about sexual predators and serial killers
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12-29-2008, 08:10 PM
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#1964
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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The Koran. So far not as dry as I was expecting it to be.
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12-29-2008, 09:02 PM
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#1965
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Bangkok
Posts: 1,921
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Sunwing
Great series.
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"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian."
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12-30-2008, 06:27 AM
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#1966
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,678
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I read 'Ham On Rye' by Bukowski in one sitting yesterday when I was in bed. My sleeping patterns are fucked right now, I go to bed later each night and now I'm at 5am before I sleep.
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12-30-2008, 07:27 AM
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#1967
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: The arse-end of nowhere
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Originally Posted by JCC
I read 'Ham On Rye' by Bukowski in one sitting yesterday when I was in bed. My sleeping patterns are fucked right now, I go to bed later each night and now I'm at 5am before I sleep.
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Haha, I wonder why?
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I'm reading Skeleton Crew by Stephen King and the second book in the Twilight series, to see how much shitter it can get.
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12-30-2008, 07:36 AM
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#1968
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Bangkok
Posts: 1,921
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Originally Posted by Desdemona
Haha, I wonder why?
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I'm reading Skeleton Crew by Stephen King and the second book in the Twilight series, to see how much shitter it can get.
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Go ahead, I'll pay for your eye surgery,afterward. 
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"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian."
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12-30-2008, 07:56 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: The arse-end of nowhere
Posts: 470
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Haha..
How thoughtful.
I think I'l need it.
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12-30-2008, 09:42 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: In front of a computer screen.
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Originally Posted by JCC
I read 'Ham On Rye' by Bukowski in one sitting yesterday when I was in bed.
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I love that book.
What did you think of it?
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12-30-2008, 11:42 AM
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#1971
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,678
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Originally Posted by a morbid curiosity
I love that book.
What did you think of it?
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It was great, but I still prefer Bukowski's short stories to his novels.
'The Wall' by Jean-Paul Sartre
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12-30-2008, 07:04 PM
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#1972
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Melbourne, Australia.
Posts: 322
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"The Shining" - Steven King
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"I know one thing for sure: I have doubts about life, But none about death.
I have hopes about death, But none about life."
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12-30-2008, 07:19 PM
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#1973
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: North Cackalacky
Posts: 2,044
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Originally Posted by Desdemona
Haha, I wonder why?
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I'm reading Skeleton Crew by Stephen King and the second book in the Twilight series, to see how much shitter it can get.
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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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12-30-2008, 08:26 PM
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#1974
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
Posts: 5,290
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^ not true. I read Twilight, hated it.
I kept hearing that the 4th book was by far the worst, and just had to see for myself. Never, ever, ever again..... *shoots self*
The Twilight novels are fun to critique though..
I'm currently re-reading Blade of Fortriu, by Juliet Marillier. Bloody good..
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12-30-2008, 11:43 PM
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#1975
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Sugar Hill
Posts: 3,887
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A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson.
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I have chugged more than ten epic boners.
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