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04-20-2007, 10:02 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In desert part of Oregon, Central
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Originally Posted by Bloopie
It's Edgar Allan Poe...
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I'm sorry then deary. I haven't had musch sleep, half an hour to be exact.
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
~Gilbert Highet
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04-22-2007, 10:11 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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Well, I finally finished The Picture of Dorian Gray.
I did guess what the ending might be when I began reading it, but then as Dorian escaped one threat after another I began to think that he was untouchable, and so Wilde manipulates the reader superbly such that the ending is sudden and a surprise. I recommend reading it.
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04-22-2007, 01:55 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Washington
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That's exactly what I'll be reading next, actually. I'll start on the first chapter today or tomorrow, whenever I have the time. I just finished reading Inferno of the Divine Comedy, so now I need something else to read. I'll revisit the other two thirds later...
Brilliant story by the way, Inferno. Once you get past all the allusions to ancient characters and tales, there's really a lot of imagination and exciting story-telling techniques put into it. The punishment for suicides still has me in awe.
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04-22-2007, 03:30 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Yew City
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Nothing exciting here, just more on Dance phsyiology. I had a lot of Robert Burns' poems sung to me this weekend, though
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04-25-2007, 07:09 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: With the Zombies
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Sung to you this weekend? Huh?
I am reading the Caterbury Tales...
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It's not so much the pain
It's more the actual knife
Pretending the picture is perfect
I cut myself to sleep
I close my eyes for a second
And curse my fragile soul
I scream to hide that I'm lonely
The echo calls my name
*ANIMAL CRACKERS*
http://www.myspace.com/persephone_x
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04-25-2007, 10:07 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: New England
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Love In Vein edited by Poppy Z. Brite.
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04-29-2007, 01:16 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
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A brave new world I cant remeber who wrote it.
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"Yo tengo la empanada empinada"
- Me
" I love 4play! Its the best thing I've ever done"
- My Boyfriend
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04-29-2007, 01:38 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: San Salvador, El Salvador.
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Stephen King's It.
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Who is saner, the sanest of the madmen, or the maddest of the sane?
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04-29-2007, 02:22 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Austin, Tx
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Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
Also, The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
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04-29-2007, 07:53 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Yew City
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Yep. Alex beaton was in Batesville for the Games at Lyon college, he covered a LOT of Burns.
Currently reading "The story of Chicago may" by Nuala O'Faolin
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04-29-2007, 08:45 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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Some Java programming manual for my girl's assignment. =\
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04-29-2007, 09:29 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Down ze wabbit hole
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Originally Posted by BLEED REBELION!!!
A brave new world I cant remeber who wrote it.
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I think you mean 'Brave New World'. It's by Aldous Huxley.
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O loneliness, O hopelessness
To search the ends of time,
For there is in all the world
No greater love than mine.
-Annie Lennox, Love Song For A Vampire-
Rouge Z. Hatter has FINALLY returned to Gnet!
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04-30-2007, 08:42 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Norway
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"The Silmarillion" by JRR Tolkien. A beautiful book
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"Fiction is the truth inside the lie"
-Stephen King
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04-30-2007, 08:57 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Finland.
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"Coraline" by Neil Gaiman.
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05-09-2007, 05:08 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Cimmeria
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Witchhunt: History of a persecution
by Nigel Cawthorne
When bigotry and power-mania take control, disaster always follows for ordinary people - even when the power is wielded by the Church. Witchcraft, of course, was seen as devil-worship. Those accused - over 100,000 people, mainly women, between 1450 and 1750 - were subjected to the most bestial tortures and usually executed. Witches examines the real facts of this persecution and the religious hysteria that inspired it, tracing it back to its source. It tracks its wildfire-spread across Europe and the US until scientific reason began to challenge old beliefs and it began its long-awaited decline.
Source
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For in each delve and greenwood,
far wiser creatures play,
and in their veins and sinews,
live the gods of yesterday.
Be excellent to one another !!!. 
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05-09-2007, 09:11 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Yew City
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Seductive Poison, a recounting of Jonestown
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05-10-2007, 10:27 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Somewhere in this Universe, that's all I'll say.
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I'm currently on a bit of a poetry spree. I've read all of Anna Akhmatova's and Marina Tsataeva's works. I love russian poetry.
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Yawn. This is rather tedious, is it not?
www.chansondeplume.blogspot.com
^Mon blog d'ecriture en francais. Veuillez lire et commenter!
Translation: My writing blog in french. Feel free to read and comment.
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05-10-2007, 10:43 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Norway
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I'm reading Shattered Mirror by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. It finally arrived ^.^
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Give a man a fire, and he is warm for a day.
Set a man on fire, and he is warm for the rest of his life.
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05-10-2007, 11:17 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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Brian O'Nolan's The Third Policeman
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05-10-2007, 11:53 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Flushing, NY
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I'm reading Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison.
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05-15-2007, 10:37 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: NL, Canada
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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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05-15-2007, 02:33 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Bumblefuck, PA
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We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson
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05-15-2007, 07:05 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Washington
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The Grapes of Wrath, for school. Oscar Wilde's been put on hold, I'm afraid =S
It's a great book, but the teacher just makes us read too much in one night. I hardly have time to do anything else in a day.
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05-17-2007, 06:37 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Down ze wabbit hole
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Reading 3 books at the moment. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas and 'Company of the Courtesan' whos author I cannot recall at the moment.
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O loneliness, O hopelessness
To search the ends of time,
For there is in all the world
No greater love than mine.
-Annie Lennox, Love Song For A Vampire-
Rouge Z. Hatter has FINALLY returned to Gnet!
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05-17-2007, 06:51 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: In a magical cupcake world.
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I'm currently absorbed in both "Five Families- the Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires" and "The Art of Eating." They are darling books.
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