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Old 10-18-2009, 08:34 PM   #2401
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Finished Making A Killing: The Political Economy Of Animal Rights. Good shit and gave me a lot to think about. Its one of those books where you read two pages and then take a break to mull over what you just read. And you wake up thinking about it the next day.

I also always kinda struggled while reading Marx since I have trouble understanding economic matters, but Torres really explains Marxism (and capitalism of course) in a pretty accessible way, halfway through the book something just clicked and it all made sense to me. I can now go back and reread Capital and The Communist Manifesto and appreciate it better.

Now onto Introduction To Animal Rights: Your Child Or The Dog? by Gary Francione.
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Old 10-18-2009, 10:16 PM   #2402
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Halfway through my third read of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine.
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Old 10-19-2009, 12:12 AM   #2403
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I loved that book.

Right now I'm reading "The Invisible Man"
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Old 10-19-2009, 02:08 AM   #2404
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Ellison's Invisible Man? If so, awesomeness.

I'm reading Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver.
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Old 10-19-2009, 05:36 AM   #2405
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Ellison's Invisible Man? If so, awesomeness.

I'm reading Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver.
'How to win friends and influence people'

I'm sending it to creature6 after i've finished it
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Old 10-19-2009, 05:47 AM   #2406
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Rebecca, by DuMaurier. I've read it every few years since I was 12, and it's been interesting to see how my perspective and sympathies have changed as I have grown older. I'm not so fond of most of her other novels, but this one is so well-written, so vivid, and such a brilliant combination of introspection and suspense, that I consider it a perfect, perfect thing.
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Old 10-19-2009, 06:25 PM   #2407
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Old 10-22-2009, 12:48 PM   #2408
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The Lace Reader by Brunonina somebody-or-other

It's okay, but her writing style seems...fractured to me. I'm sticking with it, though.
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Old 10-22-2009, 01:31 PM   #2409
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Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane.
I need to pick that up, just saw the movie trailer the other night.

Right now I'm reading The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks.
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Old 10-22-2009, 08:34 PM   #2410
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I am reading Burrough's Cities of the Red Night, and it is amazing. A little bizarre, but that is exactly the brilliance of him


I'm looking for a book to read after this
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Old 10-23-2009, 10:13 PM   #2411
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I'm not reading anything right now, but I'm hoping to read The Watseka Wonder: A narrative of startling phenomena occurring in the case of Mary Lurancy Vennum by E. Winchester Stevens sometime soon.
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Old 10-23-2009, 10:39 PM   #2412
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I am reading Burrough's Cities of the Red Night, and it is amazing. A little bizarre, but that is exactly the brilliance of him


I'm looking for a book to read after this
Have you read Burrough's 'Mars' series. My favorite is "The Chessmen of Mars."

(BTW, he used to own a bookstore here).
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Old 10-25-2009, 06:22 AM   #2413
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Crime and Punishment, alongside a collection of short stories by Maupassant.
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Old 10-25-2009, 11:00 AM   #2414
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The Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb, third in her Liveship Trilogy. Also dipping into a collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's short stories every so often.
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Old 10-25-2009, 03:24 PM   #2415
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The Sadeian Woman. Angela Carter writes way better as a critic than as an author of fiction, which kind of makes since given that the ideas behind her writing are usually interesting but her prose style kinda blows.
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Old 10-25-2009, 03:26 PM   #2416
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The Sadeian Woman. Angela Carter writes way better as a critic than as an author of fiction, which kind of makes since given that the ideas behind her writing are usually interesting but her prose style kinda blows.
Haha, you're totally kissing ass.
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Old 10-25-2009, 03:32 PM   #2417
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Haha, you're totally kissing ass.
Why do you always have to embarrass me in front of hot British women? :[

Seriously, she's my kind of feminist until she touches fiction. Her scholarship is pretty cool.
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Old 10-31-2009, 11:22 PM   #2418
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I'm revising for my history exam on the Russian/Chinese Revolution, so:
Analysing The Chinese Revolution by Trevor Sowdon (Crap)
Analysing The Russian Revolution by Richard Malone (Good)
...and many others.
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Old 11-01-2009, 12:56 PM   #2419
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Human Traces by Sebastian Faulkes for about the 8th time I think.
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Old 11-01-2009, 02:00 PM   #2420
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I somehow managed to find myself in the middle of Born to Kvetch, Brave New World, and Pic, all at the same time.
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Old 11-01-2009, 09:52 PM   #2421
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Abarat, by Clive Barker. Not what I was expecting, Barker's always seemed like... airport fiction. But I have Abarat and the Books Of Blood on loan from random dude, so I'll see what I make of them.
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Old 11-02-2009, 04:49 AM   #2422
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Iron Council - China Miéville
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Old 11-02-2009, 08:20 AM   #2423
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Poppy Z. Brite's Wormwood collection
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Old 11-02-2009, 07:27 PM   #2424
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I'm about to start reading The Scarlet Letter, attempt #2
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Old 11-05-2009, 12:45 PM   #2425
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I just finished The Child Thief, by Brom. It's Peter Pan (sans Disney fluff) plus horror, and a dash of Celtic mythology. YUM.
It's definitely going on my book wish list.
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