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01-02-2008, 05:48 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: USA.
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Today I finished Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide To Emo Culture. It gave me a few good laughs.
I'm currently reading:
.Dear Diary by Lesley Arfin
.The Meaning of Life by Terry Eagleton
.Vampires In Their Own Words, and
.Poop Culture by Dave Praeger
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01-02-2008, 06:02 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Minnesota, USA
Posts: 4,448
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I got all three George Carlin books and re-reading them. I'm also re-reading "We've Got The Neutron Bomb:The Untold Story Of LA Punk" for about the 4th time and I'm also re-reading "Burning Britian:The History of UK Punk 1980-1984", that is my bible, over 120 of my favorite bands, with descriptions, the whole 9 yards.
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01-02-2008, 06:04 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: USA.
Posts: 87
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Sounds good. I love reading about punk.
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01-02-2008, 06:14 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Minnesota, USA
Posts: 4,448
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Yes, reading about it and I live the lifestyle too. Don't worry I'm not a crusty............................................ .......................yet.
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01-02-2008, 07:15 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Canada
Posts: 1,041
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I need a book to read. I seriously don't know what else to do with my time. :P
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"Man, know thyself, and thou wilst know the universe and the gods."
~ inscription at the Temple of Delphi
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01-03-2008, 07:32 AM
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#1531
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 184
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"Mary Magdalene, the forbidden goddess of christianity"
by Lynn Picknett
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01-07-2008, 02:09 PM
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#1532
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Bard College
Posts: 256
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At the moment, "White Oleander" by Janet Fitch.
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01-07-2008, 06:34 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: south north america
Posts: 447
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Polishing off The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
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01-07-2008, 07:32 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Minnesota, USA
Posts: 4,448
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Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs.
Its a very very good book on the life of John Lydon (Johnny Rotten).
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01-09-2008, 02:09 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Pretoria, South Africa
Posts: 526
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"Dark Demon" by Christine Feehan. Quite a refreshing new look at vampires.
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01-09-2008, 04:07 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,332
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Just finished Couplands jPod. Highly disappointed, it was not even 1/10 as good as Microserfs. Avoid if possible.
I'm soon to take up the complete works of Shakespeare and T.S Eliot. Now THAT's going to be fun reading!
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"Meow. Mew. Mrow. Maow? Miaox." - Lovely Delkaetre speaks cat.
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01-09-2008, 05:06 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: London
Posts: 3,231
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Anne Bishop's Black Jewels trilogy (again).
I loved them the first time I read the series, with that wonderful balance of the fantastical, the political and the horrific, and contains a wonderful, subtle use of the erotic in powerplays and politics as well as for pleasure.
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The noblest sentiment I have encountered and the most passionate political statement to stir my heart both belong to a fictional character. Why do we have no politicians as pure in their intent and determinedly joyous in their outlook as Arkady Bogdanov of Red Mars?
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01-09-2008, 05:08 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: "Under the silence in dreams"
Posts: 1,446
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Hmm - I'm not reading anything at the moment, unless 'Asterix & Obelix' qualify?
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This is the strangest life I've ever known - Jim Morrison
Alas! Must it ever be so?
Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own shadows forever? - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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01-09-2008, 05:12 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: London
Posts: 3,231
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Course it does! The Asterix series were great, they're what got me into comics and graphic novels!
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The noblest sentiment I have encountered and the most passionate political statement to stir my heart both belong to a fictional character. Why do we have no politicians as pure in their intent and determinedly joyous in their outlook as Arkady Bogdanov of Red Mars?
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01-09-2008, 05:16 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: "Under the silence in dreams"
Posts: 1,446
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*phew* ok then 
It's still too early in the year for me to delve into the literary masterpieces. I did however come across a wealth of literature on the internet and plan on reading at least one or two works a month. That's about as much as I can handle.
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This is the strangest life I've ever known - Jim Morrison
Alas! Must it ever be so?
Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own shadows forever? - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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01-09-2008, 05:20 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: London
Posts: 3,231
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Would this wealth of literary master pieces by Project Gutenburg, by any chance?
Gutenburg has a *lot* of good stuff on it, as long as the US copyright's run out on it.
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The noblest sentiment I have encountered and the most passionate political statement to stir my heart both belong to a fictional character. Why do we have no politicians as pure in their intent and determinedly joyous in their outlook as Arkady Bogdanov of Red Mars?
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01-09-2008, 05:24 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: "Under the silence in dreams"
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Uhm no, I don't think so - but I'll check that out.
>> Site I found <<
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This is the strangest life I've ever known - Jim Morrison
Alas! Must it ever be so?
Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own shadows forever? - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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01-09-2008, 05:25 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,332
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Originally Posted by Delkaetre
Would this wealth of literary master pieces by Project Gutenburg, by any chance?
Gutenburg has a *lot* of good stuff on it, as long as the US copyright's run out on it.
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That site is pure gold. Read Jules Verne from there on my iBook on a busride once.
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"Meow. Mew. Mrow. Maow? Miaox." - Lovely Delkaetre speaks cat.
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01-09-2008, 05:29 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: "Under the silence in dreams"
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Wow - just went there - it is quite magnificent!
*bookmark *
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This is the strangest life I've ever known - Jim Morrison
Alas! Must it ever be so?
Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own shadows forever? - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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01-09-2008, 08:26 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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Again, let down the book The Idiot. I promise I'll finish it someday, but right now it's just not the priority compared to other stuff I have to read.
Currently, I'm reading CrimethInc.'s primer fighting for our lives
Then I also have to read eight books by some crimethincers, mostly field manuals, but I want to buy and read Animal Farm, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451 after reading the primer and before the rest of the books.
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"No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world.
I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
-Mikhail Bakunin
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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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01-09-2008, 08:31 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Transylvania ;]
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'Salem's Lot - Stephen King
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01-09-2008, 08:54 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Yew City
Posts: 2,413
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Peter S. beagle's "The Lines Between"-
it has "Two Hearts", the sequel to the Last unicorn
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01-10-2008, 05:58 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
Posts: 5,290
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God's Concubine, Sara Douglass.
I really need to buy the third and fourth books..
Someone remind me this evening, please.
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01-10-2008, 06:36 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 44
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George Orwell's Animal Farm
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01-10-2008, 07:11 AM
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#1550
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Pretoria, South Africa
Posts: 526
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I really need to get myself some new books!
Re-reading R.A. Salvatore's "The Crystal Shard"
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