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Old 06-07-2011, 08:19 PM   #2901
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I don't know how to feel about it. I had misgivings about it after I read it, I ranted about it here quite a bit, but I still overall enjoyed it. But now as time passes I like it less and less.

Not to discourage you, I don't feel like it was a waste of time reading or anything.
When I finish it I'll let you know what I think.
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Old 06-08-2011, 06:11 PM   #2902
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Just finished "Good Omens", fucking fantastic. Neil Gaiman must have some kind of magical powers to be able to create so much awesomeness.
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Old 06-14-2011, 03:36 PM   #2903
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Samarcande- Amin Maalouf

but the books my university required me to read held me back from reading it but i'm planning to continue reading it after my exams...
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Old 07-04-2011, 11:42 AM   #2904
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Why Nations Go To War by John G. Stoessinger.
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Old 07-04-2011, 05:26 PM   #2905
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OK, I have stocked up my summer reading supply:

Nietzsche:
The Birth of Tragedy
Twilight of The Idols
Human, All Too Human
The Will To Power
Ecce Homo


Kafka: The Complete Stories (I was ripped off! Amerika is not in it! Complete, my decayed ass...)

Aristotle: The Art of Rhetoric

Seneca: Essays and Letters

Kant: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton

Stumpf: Socrates to Sartre - A History of Philosophy

I began by reading the last one listed now, and it flows very well, with some but infrequent trips to the dictionary. I should have read this one first before diving into Nietzche's Beyond Good and Evil and The Genealogy of Morals. In fact this last one is so enlightening about philosophy in general that I think I will buy something by Cicero and read that and the Seneca book first before continuing Nietzsche maybe even preclude him with Schopenhauer and of course Hegel . But I do want to read the Germans before the French (Montaigne, Descartes) as I have heard it then becomes dry reading the other way around (the French then the German philosophers) although I do not know why, I find them both equally fascinating.
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Old 07-15-2011, 01:19 PM   #2906
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A Study in Scarlet. After I finish this I want to read Koontz's Frankenstein.
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Old 07-15-2011, 02:32 PM   #2907
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War by Gwynne Dyer.
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Old 07-15-2011, 07:25 PM   #2908
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My uncle pressured me into reading Lacan's Écrits... translated I will admit. He said no self-respecting English major can graduate without it!

A theoretical challenge! Let's start there...

Just finished Verland: The Transformation by B.E. Scully... a gothic literary masterpiece. No self-respecting literary goth should be without it!
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Old 07-16-2011, 05:29 AM   #2909
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I'm beta reading for a couple of other writers, so I can't say titles but they are totally outside my genre and I'm enjoying it.
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Old 08-08-2011, 10:34 PM   #2910
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The Sexual Politics Of Meat by Carol J. Adams. Had a lot of reading to do for school so finally getting around to it, only bought it in May.
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Old 08-09-2011, 05:39 AM   #2911
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami.
This book is amazing it's been giving me the weirdest dreams and it's a very enjoyable read.
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Old 08-24-2011, 07:08 PM   #2912
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I'm reading Panther's Bite and Lightning Through the thoughts of the abyss both vampire cult classics, never mind the price its as much as eating out and this lasts longer
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Old 08-24-2011, 07:47 PM   #2913
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I just obtained a very large chunk of H.P. Lovecraft's non-horror writings. It's interesting to learn about him from his own pen.
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Old 08-24-2011, 07:59 PM   #2914
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Grimmie by Linda S. Cowden. It's about the Grim Reaper doing things outside his job description.
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Old 08-30-2011, 08:54 PM   #2915
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At the moment I'm re-reading paradise lost aswell as the players manuel for vtm .
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Old 08-31-2011, 11:26 AM   #2916
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The Faber Book of Madness. Edited by Roy Porter.

The elliptical philosophy and study behind madness, containing poetic quotes from certain known and unknown writers along with unspecified jargon consisting of the ever-growing contingencies of psychological studies. All in my opinion of course.
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Old 08-31-2011, 07:22 PM   #2917
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Professor and the madman and soon, The Rum Diary.
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Old 09-01-2011, 11:01 AM   #2918
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Marketing the menacing fetus in Japan by Helen Hardacre, and some steamy Yaoi novels (a.k.a male homosexual novels) on the side.
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Old 09-09-2011, 11:15 PM   #2919
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Human .4 for my school book club, has anyone read it?

.......and I'm rereading Sandman volume 5. The amount of checkouts I've made for that series must appall my librarians ^.^
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Old 09-10-2011, 08:40 AM   #2920
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20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill.
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Old 09-17-2011, 08:48 PM   #2921
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The vampire novels are a bit like prose sa to ofer a differnce to what is usally meant by something of this fashion. Lightning through the thoughts of the abyss shows a mark on religion as taken by the stolen mind to refute and Panther's Bite includes the harvest of what subsides as indiffer3nt but to limit one's graces as a shallow return to nevelop reason by mystery that contains...two must buy, a bit costly, but never mind the pizza!
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Old 09-18-2011, 07:35 PM   #2922
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The heart and the fist by Eric Greitens.

Wow there really are humanitarians around still.
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Old 09-19-2011, 01:40 PM   #2923
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Wuthering Heights. For a class on ghost stories. I hate it less every time I read it. Maybe with another 4 or 5 tries I'll actually begin to enjoy it?
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Old 10-10-2011, 02:14 PM   #2924
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The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. I'm pretty addicted to it. First time reading a book with so many pages. 600+
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Old 10-23-2011, 08:28 AM   #2925
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A game of thrones, so far so good.
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