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12-09-2006, 10:13 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: South of the Unseelie Court
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The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm A lovely anthology containing two of my favorite authors ever: Neil Gaiman, and Holly Black.
Oh, and I'm trying to steal Anthony Rapp's book from a friend of mine, she's not agreeing to letting me read over her shoulder! Anthony Rapp is the actor who played Mark Cohen in the original Broadway Musical RENT. Excuse me but I'm a devote Renthead.
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12-10-2006, 03:52 AM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Oslo, Norway
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At the moment I'm reading "Queen of the Dead", Anne Rice and "The Mists of Avalon", Marion Zimmer Bradley. I need to read at least two books at once, else I can't seem to concentrate on either.
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However far away I will always love you
However long I stay I will always love you
Whatever words I say I will always love you
I will always love you
- The Cure, "Love Song"
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12-10-2006, 08:06 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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Originally Posted by Draconysius
I'm up to chapter six of "the Mysteries of Udolpho" by Ann Radcliffe (it's a small font, mind you). I've been reading it every night, which no book has convinced me to do for a very long time. For those of you that would like to read a little of it before buying it, please check out the free online text at project gutenberg:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu...ookup?num=3268
Read it, or else! I'm serious; this book changed my outlook! >.< |
Now you know where I get my references to Chateau St. Aubert in my Location field.
I love the way she describes it, and the estate that surrounds it. I would love to live there, and retire there.
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12-11-2006, 06:34 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 50
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Vampire Hunter D #3, the Poetical Works of Lord Byron, The Chronicles of Narnia, and hopefully Eragon before Friday when the movie comes out.
Just got done reading: Half Blood Prince and Running with Scissors.
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12-12-2006, 07:44 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Blountsville, AL
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Originally Posted by HumanePain
Now you know where I get my references to Chateau St. Aubert in my Location field.
I love the way she describes it, and the estate that surrounds it. I would love to live there, and retire there.
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Yes, Radcliffe is a great painter with words. I've only read to chapter six so far, but this book's already renewed my love for nature. T_T I can't wait till castle Udolpho comes into the story, though! Whoo! 
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12-12-2006, 08:58 PM
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#931
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Houston Texas
Posts: 443
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Dante's Inferno just cause im bored and had no other book handie to read. lol
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"The Goths are beautiful, a vast depth of sub cultural,
aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that
as we did back in 1979. But not the post modern distortion
...the costume without the brain."
--Peter Murphy
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12-12-2006, 09:13 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: With the Zombies
Posts: 2,208
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The Complete Works of Robert Burns
MS SQL Server 2000 Programming By example- F.G Guerrero and C.E Rojas
RedDragon- Thomas Harris
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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
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http://www.myspace.com/persephone_x
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12-16-2006, 08:39 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: The Icy Forest of New England
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I am currently reading "Boyproof." Interesting book I must say. Although it's the first book I've read in a month that isn't published by Push.
Still a good book so far.
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12-16-2006, 01:35 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 185
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Raymond E. Feist - Riftwar Saga. I am loving this.
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12-16-2006, 04:42 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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So the new Raymond E. Feist book is good? I'll check into it.
Currently not reading anything, but I'm getting my copy of Nietzches "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" in a couple of days, should be interesting, but will most probably go over my head.
I want the last Wheel of Time books to get released, sigh.
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12-16-2006, 11:49 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 185
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Originally Posted by Ictum
So the new Raymond E. Feist book is good? I'll check into it.
Currently not reading anything, but I'm getting my copy of Nietzches "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" in a couple of days, should be interesting, but will most probably go over my head.
I want the last Wheel of Time books to get released, sigh.
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Well actually, I'm just starting the Riftwar saga myself. The Magician is the first book in the series and I'm really liking the alternate world scenario.
I'm dying for the last Wheel Of Time book as well, although I do believe that Robert Jordan stretched them out a bit. He should have finished it off by now. I like that Rand Al Thor gets to sleep with three women, haha.
If you like WoT, Get the "Songs of Fire and Ice" series by George R.R. Martin. They are unbelievably awesome. So is the Sword of Truth series although I think Terry Goodkind stretched this series out a bit as well. Last book in that series coming up as well.
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12-17-2006, 03:52 AM
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#937
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Gothamburg
Posts: 230
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Just now got started on The Vampire Lestat, finally. I love the way he describes rock music
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Studies show:
Intelligent girls are more depressed
Because they know
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12-17-2006, 06:58 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: U.K
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Well when the holidays get started I'm going to read my favourite book(s) : His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman. I absolutely adore it. I know this will sound extremely cheesy, but it did change my life.
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12-17-2006, 05:53 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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I'm in an Asian mood, so I started reading Miss One Thousand Spring Blossoms by John Ball.
Pretty good so far! The book's developing love affair gives me some great ideas for my Gothic Romance stories.
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12-17-2006, 05:57 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Houston Texas
Posts: 443
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im reading "Beyond Good & Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future" by Friedrich Nietzsche
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"The Goths are beautiful, a vast depth of sub cultural,
aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that
as we did back in 1979. But not the post modern distortion
...the costume without the brain."
--Peter Murphy
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12-17-2006, 08:06 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Yew City
Posts: 2,413
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Re-reading Mark Z. Danielewski's "House of Leaves". It's one of those books you pick up and flip through, thinking of how pretentious it looks. You buy it anyway. The first read is like hell behind your irises.
Pelafina will seep into your dreams, and Johnny Truant becomes less real the more you come back to him, and re-read, and re-read....
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12-18-2006, 06:03 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 3,360
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Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion.
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12-18-2006, 08:59 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Blountsville, AL
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I'm on chapter VIII of "the Mysteries of Udolpho" now. Someone (I don't want to spoil it) has just died, and something has been revealed about the spooky occurence at the fishing-house near the beginning of the book. I'm loving this.
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12-18-2006, 06:53 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Yew City
Posts: 2,413
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Picked up "Someplace to be Flying" by Charles deLint. Will begin it tonight and let you know if it measures up to the rest of his work.
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12-19-2006, 10:41 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Athens, GA
Posts: 1,696
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::sigh:: I am about to start The Once And Future King by T.H. White for my AP Literature class next semester. I don't want to do it ._.
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"Don't ever let anybody teach you to think, Lance: it is the curse of the world." - King Arthur in T.H. White's The Once And Future King
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you" The Bible (Matthew 7:12)
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12-20-2006, 12:30 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 69
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Ha, I totally got the thousandth post in this thread.
Anyways, I'm currently re-reading "Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas R. Hofstadter for the third time, but hopefully by Xmas time, I'll be reading "Journey to the West," the classic Chinese novel.
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12-20-2006, 04:34 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Yew City
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Actually read "A Christmas Carol" for the first time yesterday. It's one of those things that I always thought I had read, only somehow it had slipped through the cracks.
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12-20-2006, 05:58 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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Originally Posted by Pyre
::sigh:: I am about to start The Once And Future King by T.H. White for my AP Literature class next semester. I don't want to do it ._.
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Oh, you wll be glad you did! It is a great novel! I love that story. Merlin is so funny.
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12-20-2006, 11:44 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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You know what I hate about reading?
I don't read as fast as I would want to.
The books begin to pile up. But when I see a book I want to read, I have to buy it.
I left the book Frankenstein alone to begin reading The Illuminatus! Trilogy, which I left about half-way through to read The Dying Earth. I still haven't read Gulliver, which I want to, but I don't know how to prioritize it.
And yesterday I bought a book called Shadowfall, and I want to start reading it immediately.
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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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12-20-2006, 12:26 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Quebec
Posts: 100
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And then, when you'll decide to finish to read the other books, you'll have forgotten a part of the story
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