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12-09-2007, 12:04 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian
Rorschach convinced me, I'm reading The Idiot.
Steal This Book is just a manual anyway, I can go back to reading it again without getting lost.
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Haha! I had that book by Abbie Hoffman but someone ...stole it.
Some of it is obsolete nowadays, for example he describes how to make free phone calls from a pay phone. What's a pay phone? O_o
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12-09-2007, 12:26 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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We still have them in Mexico, and you can still call operators. They work! But scamming phone booths is cheap.:P
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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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12-09-2007, 12:44 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: South of the Unseelie Court
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There are such things as pay phones! Shocking I know! Anyways I think the most interesting ting I've seen in a while is a pay bathroom.
I'm reading Kushiel's Justice by J. Carey. It's the fifth book in the series and I'm reading as slow as possible because I want to draw it out as long as possible.
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12-09-2007, 08:58 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 95
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As of right now the books I am either reading or have put on hold in the middle are "Frankenstein", "Forbidden Fruit: Psalms of a Black Master", "Ancestor's Tale", "Androphilia" and if starting it at Borders and having to put it down for lack of time counts "Satan Speaks", which I plan to return to at Borders probably tomorrow lol.
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12-10-2007, 03:06 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: In a little hollow doll, inside another hollow doll, inside another hollow doll, inside...
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I'm reading Cella Serghi's "Mirona". You may not have heard of her unless you happen to be romanian.. Anyway, the novel reminds me of "Jane Eyre". So far, i'm really enjoying it.
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12-13-2007, 08:35 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: GR
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mmmm totally lost in the mists of ravenloft , currently under the spell of vampire of the mists (by christy gonden )
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12-13-2007, 12:04 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: St. Louis
Posts: 622
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"Pride & Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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"There is no way out of the mind"--Sylvia Plath
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12-16-2007, 12:00 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: North Cackalacky
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I'm reading "Penny Dreadful" by Will Christopher Baer for the third time. :]
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12-17-2007, 02:39 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: CA
Posts: 667
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"On the Road" Jack Kerouac
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12-17-2007, 01:24 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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I'm reading "The Husband" by Dean Koontz
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12-17-2007, 09:55 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Tx
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I have been reading (for over a year now) For Your Own Good. I forget the subtext at the moment, but the book is a must for angry smokers.
It is non-fiction and lays out the history of smoking, prohibitions and endorsements from various governments, and the process by which most anti-smoking groups get their (desired) results.
It really is an interesting book thus far.
A book I recommend for dorks (such as myself) is The History of Video Games, which details the beginning of various groups and game houses from the turn of the century to 2001. It is an older book (obviously) but a fun read and/or reference guide.
Happy Reading!
I do not, however, recommend Wicked. I thought the book was good up to about halfway... then it descended into absolute tripe. This is just my opinion.
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12-17-2007, 09:59 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: In the Desert
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Right now, I'm reading some stuff written by Mystery, the Pick Up Artist.
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12-17-2007, 11:17 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: over there
Posts: 294
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wyvern by a.a. attanasio
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12-21-2007, 07:49 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Canada
Posts: 1,041
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I just read Bizenghast, the first manga. I love the drawings in it!!! They are soooo beautiful!!!!! I want to try to get the other ones, but I doubt the library has anymore. *sigh*
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12-21-2007, 08:26 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 95
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I just started the first book in the Otherland series, fucking awesome books. I am already nearly halfway through the nearly one thousand pages and only been reading for like two days. Can't wait to get into the second one.
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12-21-2007, 11:08 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: East Haven, CT
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'Round here at the local dump they have a free book library and you can take home 15 free books a day... And my mother DOES.. There are little piles of books all over the house, and if I happen to pick up one and read a single line, by some quirk of my nature I have to read the ENTIRE book.. So yeah, I'm always reading something random... Right now it's Father Melancholy's Daughter by Gail Godwin, about the life of a girl who's mother dies and her father suffers from depression.
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12-30-2007, 06:29 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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Just finished Invisible Monsters by Palahnuik and Am reading Paris Spleen- Baudelaire, The Sweet Far Thing -Libba Bray and a paperback by Barry Lyga on a whim.
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12-30-2007, 06:30 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: North Cackalacky
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The Zen Of Zombie by Scott Kenemore. Oh, the knowledge I will gain by beginning my journey into the dull-witted brains of zombies.
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12-30-2007, 06:32 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Los Angeles
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I just re-read The Shadow Out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft.
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12-31-2007, 09:52 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire.
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12-31-2007, 10:08 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Earth.
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A novel called Midwives by Chris Bohjalian.
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12-31-2007, 10:17 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
Posts: 5,290
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God's Concubine, Sara Douglass
I *hearts* Sara Douglass
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Autonomy Not Uniformity
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12-31-2007, 10:57 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: HELL!!!!
Posts: 359
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Apex magazine of science fiction and horror. Pretty cool. My computer seems to be working again at least for now. Weird...
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12-31-2007, 05:23 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: United States.
Posts: 1,670
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Reading choke by Chuck palahniuk again.
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12-31-2007, 06:16 PM
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#1525
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Australia
Posts: 2,424
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Spiral by Koji Suzuki
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