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06-01-2008, 06:32 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Earth
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Originally Posted by NightmareInShiningArmour
I'm reading Stephen King's The Stand. Fairly good book. First Stephen King book I've read.
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Try "Misery" by the same author, it made my toenails curl.
The movie version is VERY watered down. Trust me. It is a good read.
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06-02-2008, 05:53 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Phillips Exeter Academy, NH
Posts: 1,429
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The Vampire Lestat- Anne Rice.
Got into that kinda stuff right after watching The Queen of the Damned with the sexyness of Stuart Townsend.
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06-05-2008, 05:11 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Texas
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I'm actually reading three books right now...
"Headstone City" by Tom Piccirilli
"History is Dead: A Zombie Anthology" Edited by Kim Paffenroth
"Burning Chrome" William Gibson
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06-05-2008, 05:16 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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WE, by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
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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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06-05-2008, 05:21 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: In Your Pants, PA.
Posts: 1,918
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A biography on Napolean Bonaparte and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, still.
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06-07-2008, 11:06 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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Prentice-Hall Handbook for Writers - Legget, Mead and Charvat
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06-07-2008, 04:23 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 639
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Heart-Same happened to me. I wish Townsend was in more....I liked Interview better than what I've read of QoD so far.
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06-07-2008, 10:54 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Under the clouds.
Posts: 598
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The Secret Garden by author I know not of.
But I'm sure someone will tell me eventually.
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06-08-2008, 09:04 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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Stars of the Desert - Laurence Hope
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06-10-2008, 09:02 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: I though it was supposed to be warm here
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why does a library this big not have one book by frank l. baum???
im reading htis book called Infected, i cant remember by who. its pretty good, something to pass the time.
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06-23-2008, 08:01 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Cimmeria
Posts: 7,162
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I`m currently reading `Alice In Sunderland` by Bryan Talbot, and its one of the best and most original graphic novels I`ve ever read !!!.
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06-23-2008, 08:03 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Posts: 1,780
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I just got through reading Lord of the Flies. Very short, but a friend gave it to me and told me it was freaky and that I would like it about a year ago so I spent a few of my recent sleepless nights reading it.
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06-23-2008, 08:11 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Earth.
Posts: 8,001
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The Gunslinger.
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06-23-2008, 08:19 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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The Watchmen, of Alan Moore.
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I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
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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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06-23-2008, 08:32 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Harlem
Posts: 6,909
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I finished American Gods and am now reading Middlesex.
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06-23-2008, 08:54 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: 750 mi north of AZ equivalent to Derry, Maine
Posts: 673
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Reading 'The Ministry of Fear' by Graham Greene.
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(shouts) WHY CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG??!!?
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Originally Posted by Beneath the Shadows
Because some people are dicks. And not everyone else is gay.
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06-23-2008, 09:03 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 30
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Originally Posted by emeraldlonewoulf
Reading 'The Ministry of Fear' by Graham Greene.
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Bob Dole wants physical evidence, or Bob Dole won't believe it and will come down on you with Bob Dole's wrath of Bob Dole.
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06-23-2008, 09:24 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Posts: 1,780
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>.>
I knew the minute I saw "Bob Dole" upon logging onto Gnet that it would be some stupid fuck.
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06-24-2008, 09:24 AM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: IL, USA
Posts: 754
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This web page rocks but I must ask, is it legal? I'm no expert, but the last I heard Lovecraft was under copyright. My favorite Lovecraft page has been http://www.hplovecraft.com/ and they refuse to list any tales because of copyright. I guess I don't really care if it's legal or not--just wondering.
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06-24-2008, 10:29 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: on the Moon:P (Brussels, Belgium)
Posts: 28
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i read ulyses of j Joyce and Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal (again!!!!!!)
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06-24-2008, 10:54 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: U.K
Posts: 1,858
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E.H. Gombrich's 'The Story Of Art'. I seriously thought it would be a bit difficult to read, but in the introduction he made it very clear he didn't want to make it over-complex or speak down to people. Which is nice to know.
Tomorrow I'm going to look through my dad's collection of Dickens and pick something out for myself to read. I've been a bit curious after watching a documentary on him.
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06-24-2008, 11:17 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Northern California
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Brahm Stoker's Dracula, because I got my own copy finally.
Next, it'll probably be Night Watch.
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06-24-2008, 11:24 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: U.K
Posts: 1,858
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I really badly want to read Night Watch (if the poster above meant the russian fantasy/sci-fi story). I've only watched the film, but I'm assuming the book would probably be better.
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06-24-2008, 12:08 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Northern California
Posts: 57
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Originally Posted by She_Is_My_Sin
I really badly want to read Night Watch (if the poster above meant the russian fantasy/sci-fi story). I've only watched the film, but I'm assuming the book would probably be better.
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Yeah, I wish I could read Russian so I don't have to worry about anything being lost in translation, but I'm guessing that's being nitpicky at this point.
I've only heard good things about the series :]
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