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11-08-2007, 11:59 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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a Lovecraft story about a fish god or something. cracks me up! lol
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11-08-2007, 12:16 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Jolly old England.
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Sounds like Dagon to me.
I tried to use it as a 'spooky' story one rainy night when I was in Norway... But I couldn't remember half of it.
And the ladies I was with didn't speak enough english to 'get it'.
Oh well.
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And then a chubby puppy with teensy legs rolls past which makes me giggle like a little school girl and forget what I was thinking about...
Breathing heard just below the floorboards.
The sense of something terrible rousing itself from
from its torpor.
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11-08-2007, 01:03 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 601
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I just started Crime and Punishment. I have three more chapters to go in the first book. It's very good and easy to relate to.
I'm also reading Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone. A little late for that one, I know. I had been given those as a birthday present, twice(the first book), when it came out, but mom had all of these convictions that it was the devil's book and I was too young to really contest her decision not to let me read them. So now i'm reading the series. It's so much fun  .
Also, I am in the middle of 1984. A very scary book. It's accurate to the tee.
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11-08-2007, 01:08 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: hillsboro,wisconsin
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your retarted post
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11-08-2007, 03:28 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: The Icy Forest of New England
Posts: 2,535
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I just got done reading "Eclipse" by Stephenie Meyer. It's part of a trilogy. And I loved it!!!!
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"Tigers love pepper, they hate cinnamon."
-Zach Galifianakis
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11-08-2007, 06:19 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Happy Valley, Utah
Posts: 283
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Originally Posted by zeronegativeplus
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging comparative study of mythology and religion, written by Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). It was first published in two volumes in 1890; the third edition, published 1906–15, comprised twelve volumes. It was aimed at a broad literate audience raised on tales as told in such publications as Thomas Bulfinch's Age of Fable. It offered a modernist approach to discussing religion, treating it dispassionately as a cultural phenomenon rather than from a theological perspective. Although the worth of its contribution to anthropology will be newly evaluated by each generation, its impact on contemporary European literature was substantial.
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I've been working my way (very slowly) through this as well--the two volume edition; I think the full thing would kill me.
His insights into religion aren't great, but some of the lore and stories he's collected to prove his points are priceless.
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11-08-2007, 09:34 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 113
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"House of Leaves", by Mark Z. Danielewski
-R.
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11-08-2007, 09:39 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, but actually I just finished it, so I'm about to read One Floe Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.
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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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11-08-2007, 10:33 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 2,126
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Is it the same as the movie? I thoroughly enjoyed that movie, even with it's poor 70's acting.
Currently reading the Dune Prequel series, The Machine Crusade. Not as good as I hoped it would be but enough to keep my interest at four in the morning.
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Everyone has a ghost...a phantom behind us which slows and drags us down.. This ghost or spectral has a name..."Regret".
"I've never regretted anything..." - Light Yagami
Life is a shit sandwich. Unfortunately, it's always lunchtime. How much bread you have goes a long way toward determining how easy it is to swallow.
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11-08-2007, 11:20 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: West Yorkshire - England
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Right now reading Emperor: Time's Tapestry book one. A little werid but a good read for anyone interested in the Roman Empire.
Just finished Hood, a whole new spin on the Robin Hood tale. And next i'll be reading I, Lucifer, by Glen Duncan for what must be the fiftith time.
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11-08-2007, 11:21 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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Never seen the movie; I'll see it after reading the book.
I do know that the movie is one of the top ten movies ever.
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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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11-08-2007, 11:31 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 2,126
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Indeed, it started quite a few actors in the acting world. Danny Divito, Christopher Loyd, Jack Nicholson etc etc. The person who plays the role of the nurse was in The Exorcist II but that's hardly worthy of mention.
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Everyone has a ghost...a phantom behind us which slows and drags us down.. This ghost or spectral has a name..."Regret".
"I've never regretted anything..." - Light Yagami
Life is a shit sandwich. Unfortunately, it's always lunchtime. How much bread you have goes a long way toward determining how easy it is to swallow.
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11-08-2007, 11:50 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: West Yorkshire - England
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Quick question, do you know which came first, the movie or the book, because sometimes they'll base a film on a book and at other times they write the book later to cash in on the success of the film?
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11-09-2007, 01:29 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Happy Valley, Utah
Posts: 283
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The book came first, by a decade or two. Ken Kesey went on to become one of the leaders of the hippie movement; you can find his story in "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," by Tom Wolfe--also an interesting read.
I'm working on the Abbe de Montfaucon de Villars' "Comte de Gabalis," a 17th-century occult dialogue in the best Hermetic tradition. It comes with a thoroughly Theosophical commentary by the anonymous, early-20th-century translators.
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11-09-2007, 06:08 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: West Yorkshire - England
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Thanks d.Nox.
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11-13-2007, 02:54 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Canada
Posts: 1,041
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The Inferno by Dante Alighieri (of course the translated version :P)
I found it in the library at the non-fiction section strangely enough. I was looking for some of Edgar Allan Poe's works and I saw this. They didn't have any books by Poe in the non-fiction section and students aren't allowed in the fiction section during school hours, the bastards.
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11-13-2007, 02:55 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Canada
Posts: 1,041
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Originally Posted by HeWhoMustNotBeNamed
Right now reading Emperor: Time's Tapestry book one. A little werid but a good read for anyone interested in the Roman Empire.
Just finished Hood, a whole new spin on the Robin Hood tale. And next i'll be reading I, Lucifer, by Glen Duncan for what must be the fiftith time.
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I will check that book out then. The Roman Empire is actually interesting.
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11-13-2007, 05:10 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Florida
Posts: 423
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Wolfcry by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
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11-13-2007, 05:23 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Happy Valley, Utah
Posts: 283
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Just got C.G. Jung and C. Kerenyi, "The Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis."
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11-13-2007, 06:09 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Phillips Exeter Academy, NH
Posts: 1,429
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The Gunslinger- Stephen King
Interesting book.....
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11-13-2007, 06:10 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Posts: 1,888
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Originally Posted by (heartofflames)
The Gunslinger- Stephen King
Interesting book.....
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One of the best series I have ever read. No, THE best series I have ever read.
Right now I'm reading Dante's "Divine Comedy".
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A prank a day keeps the dog leash away - Jello Biafra
I want your skulls! I NEED your skulls! - Misfits
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11-13-2007, 07:00 PM
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#1447
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 184
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The basics of magick by K. Amber
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11-13-2007, 07:13 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: a sneeze away from San Francisco
Posts: 2,144
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I picked up some William Blake from my friend today. Tyger, tyger, burning bright . . .
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Originally Posted by Joker_in_the_Pack
At some point, you need to look yourself in the mirror and realize that what other people did to you does not define you as a person. You and your actions define who you are as a person. It's up to you to be a good person, in spite of all the evil you've faced. In fact, it should be because of the evil you see that it's good you do. Be the change you want in the world. Next time someone tells me that they're an asshole because they've had a bad life, I'm stabbing them in the eye with a spork.
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11-13-2007, 07:14 PM
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#1449
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Minnesota, USA
Posts: 4,448
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The Gunslinger is an excellent series. I'm re-reading the complete and uncut version of The Stand by Stephen King for about the 9th time.
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11-14-2007, 07:56 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Sweden
Posts: 24
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I'm in the middle of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and a Swedish book called, in English, "Call It What the Hell You Want". Terribly funny, both of them.
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