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06-25-2007, 01:16 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
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"The Outsider" is probably my favorite...I don't know why. Its so spooky yet so familiar all at once. Its kind of weird how you can think of his writing as realistic when it is so bizarre. Definitely an interesting talent.
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06-25-2007, 01:52 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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I like 'The Call of Cthulhu'. I am currently reading 'Alice in Wonderland'...for the fifth time. Someone needs to take this book off me before my brain implodes!
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06-25-2007, 02:30 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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The only "bad" thing about Lovecraft is, as someone I don't remember the name of said, that he sometimes has the action happening a bit weird... I mean, no one sits at their desk and writes a letter like "I can hear it at the door. Oh no, it opens the door! It comes in! It's horrible, undescribeable, this utmost terror from outer space! It seems hungry! Aaaarrgh......"
I mean, who writes a letter in front of some demonic hellspawn...? I would run, or ask for its autograph.  Other than that, I love the way Lovecraft describes everything. I wish I could write like him.
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06-25-2007, 10:59 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
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I know what you mean...I find that that can actually get a little confusing so I end up having to read sections like that twice. I think its because that kind of writing is not something you see everyday.
His writing kind of reminds me of that of Ambrose Bierce in that they both succeed at shocking you and providing you with wonderfully grotesque descriptions of images. Do you read him also?
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06-26-2007, 01:24 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Australia
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I'm currently reading "The Mayne Inheritance" by Rosamond Siemon. I would like to read "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova or "Carmilla" by J. Sheridan LeFanu.
I love "The Mayne Inheritance" for a few reasons, but one which appeals to me most is that's it's a true story.
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06-26-2007, 03:31 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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Originally Posted by Ratchet
I know what you mean...I find that that can actually get a little confusing so I end up having to read sections like that twice. I think its because that kind of writing is not something you see everyday.
His writing kind of reminds me of that of Ambrose Bierce in that they both succeed at shocking you and providing you with wonderfully grotesque descriptions of images. Do you read him also?
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Oh, I did many years ago.. hm.. can't remember anything of it though so I guess I'm taking a trip to the library again.
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06-26-2007, 05:58 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: San Salvador, El Salvador.
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I'm currently reading Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden. Very captivating novel it is. 
I've loved it so far!
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06-26-2007, 08:36 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 34
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Unfortunately I am reading nothing at the moment. Has anyone got any suggestions on what I could read?
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06-26-2007, 09:37 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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Originally Posted by Wanderlust
Unfortunately I am reading nothing at the moment. Has anyone got any suggestions on what I could read?
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well, why not something with H.P Lovecraft?  The Omnibus collection, book 3, is what I'd start with since it contains the slightly less bizarre stories.
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07-02-2007, 08:18 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Twilight Zone, CA
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I have several Lovecraftian favorites: Colour Out Of Space, Shadow Over Innsmouth, Call Of Cthulhu, The Outsider, In The Vault, Case Of Charles Dexter Ward, Rats In the Wall, Haunter of the Dark, Imprisoned With The Pharoahs aka Under The Pyramid, and Dreams Of the Witch House.
As for Ambrose Bierce, my favorite is The Damned Thing, Occurance At Owl Creek Bridge, Inhabitant of Carcosa (a precursor to the King in Yellow stories by Robert W. Chambers), and a story (a title escapes me) that is written long before RASHOMON came out as a story and a movie by Kurosawa.
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07-03-2007, 05:23 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: A crazy place called America
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The Dracula Tape
Story: A tape is found on which Dracula explains himself.
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07-03-2007, 12:32 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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Sounds like Interview with the Vampire.
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07-03-2007, 01:51 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: A crazy place called America
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Never read that book. I prefer the old German stories, this book happens to have a German author, so I thought it would be worth a try.
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07-04-2007, 01:11 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Australia
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Originally Posted by heretoday_gonetomorrow
Never read that book. I prefer the old German stories, this book happens to have a German author, so I thought it would be worth a try.
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Actually it wa made into a movie a while ago...I enjoyed it, but I'm trying to track down the book at the moment.
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07-05-2007, 08:45 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: U.K
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I just finished re-reading 'The Time Machine' by H.G Wells.
I always get a little bit frightened at his portrayal of the future.
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07-05-2007, 10:49 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Somewhere over the rainbow?
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"Memnoch the Devil" by Anne Rice. I'm addicted to her Vampire Chronicles.
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07-05-2007, 11:24 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Nowhere, New Mexico
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"The Stand" By Stephen King. I just finish "Swan Song" by Robbert R. McCammon before this.
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07-05-2007, 11:29 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: the graveyard
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21st Century Wicca
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07-05-2007, 12:16 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Down the Rabbit Hole
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"Scarlet Moon", a retelling of "Little Red Riding Hood"
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07-08-2007, 02:53 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Brussels, Belgium
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K-Pax. Must-read!
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07-11-2007, 07:38 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: The Icy Forest of New England
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Right now I am reading Vermont's book on driving. I have to read it so I can pass the test to get my permit.
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07-11-2007, 05:36 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 47
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The Maria Korp Case by Carly Crawford-story of a woman strangled by her husband's lover and left in her car boot to die (non-fiction)
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07-15-2007, 09:18 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Colorado
Posts: 261
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Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini--I have to read it for school. I plan to read For a Few Demons More by Kim Harrison once I'm finished (fun reading).
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07-15-2007, 09:50 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 1,021
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Another Clive Cussler novel... This ones about some magnetic thing that causes rogue waves...
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07-15-2007, 12:33 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: U.K
Posts: 1,858
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Empress Orchid by Anchee Min. It's a really good book about the life of Empress Dowager Cixi. I'm finding it quite addictive.
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