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04-16-2008, 07:16 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Earth
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I'm reading a novel called THE 81ST SITE by Tony Kenrick. Hey it's not Goth but it is an excellent read. I picked a copy up at a used book stand at the mall and I loved that copy. Unfortunately, that copy was falling apart. I bought a fresh copy from Amazon. That book is a real thriller, full of stuff to keep you on the edge of you seats. If you want a copy, I scanned the falling apart one and made a PDF of it. If you want it, give me an email address and I'll send it to you. I bought the book twice so I'm no fucking leach! So don't call me a pirate or whatever.
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04-16-2008, 08:25 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Canada
Posts: 1,041
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Books like that are really interesting. I'll keep an eye out for it. At the moment I'm re-reading The Catcher in the Rye.
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04-17-2008, 10:32 PM
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#1653
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Zootown
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Anton Chekhov's Complete Plays. It also has his short stories and essays in it. I am an English nerd, this I know. I have wayyy to many books I'm in the middle of, but somehow it helps keep things fresh.
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04-24-2008, 10:44 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Under Your Bed.
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If you could only see the piles upon piles of books I need to read before I die. It's insanity. At the moment, I am reading The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower by Stephen King, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris, and I'm just finishing Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice. I will start Memnoch the Devil soon after, as well as perhaps The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneggar, and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer if I can get my hands on it somehow.
Does anyone else read the Twilight Series? I was skeptical at first, but was shocked to find it to be literary crack. They're not even written that well, but somehow I devour them like the Harry Potter series (which also are not exactly genius). Is it just me?
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04-24-2008, 08:00 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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The Fifth Book of Poems by Joseph Tuccio. And it's autographed.
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04-26-2008, 12:26 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: In Your Pants, PA.
Posts: 1,918
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I'm reading a bunch of stuff right now.
I'm still reading "Rip It Up", I'm also reading The Complete Works of Flannery O' Conor and this book and Arabic love poetry, which is neat because it has the original poem in arabic and the translations...but I hate love poetry.
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04-26-2008, 10:12 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 621
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currently I am reading the Gothic.net boards
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04-26-2008, 10:22 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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Originally Posted by DarkenedReveries
Does anyone else read the Twilight Series? I was skeptical at first, but was shocked to find it to be literary crack. They're not even written that well, but somehow I devour them like the Harry Potter series (which also are not exactly genius). Is it just me?
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It's being made into a movie.
I actually had it requested from the library but checked reviews and after that it didn't seem worth reading.
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05-01-2008, 12:27 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: I though it was supposed to be warm here
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the complete works fo allen ginsberg? anyway, he was this old gay poet who dies in '97. he has some really good stuff in there.
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05-01-2008, 01:40 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Jersey Sticks.
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I'm presently reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
Afterwards, I plan to read Dark of the Sun by Chelsea Quinn Tarbro, Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman, and American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
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05-02-2008, 08:31 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Behind you.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker.
Difficult to understand in a few parts but overall fabulous.
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05-04-2008, 12:00 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Northern California
Posts: 36
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Dandelion Through the Crack by Kiyo Sato
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05-04-2008, 11:37 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Posts: 1,888
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Call of Cthulhu and Other Wierd Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
...it's trying to shatter my mind XD
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05-04-2008, 01:14 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Posts: 332
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Circus of the Damned by Laurell K Hamilton
The Hellbound Heart
The Inhuman Condition (both by Clive Barker)
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Pinhead: What you think of as pain is a shadow. Pain has a face. Allow me to show it to you. Gentlemen, I... Am... Pain
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05-04-2008, 01:57 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 3,360
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For all that do a lot of travelling and can't carry books around for whatever reason, check out the audio book section on Gutenberg.
Currently listening to: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20677
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05-04-2008, 04:52 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Coventry, England.
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Just finished reading Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre.
Interesting existentialist ideas.
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05-16-2008, 04:43 AM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: IN MY MIND
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I'm reading Stephen King's The Stand. Fairly good book. First Stephen King book I've read.
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05-16-2008, 06:46 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Zootown
Posts: 426
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The Monk and the Philosopher. Highly recommended! It has a lot going on in it, but if you take time to analyze a bit, it is logical.
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05-16-2008, 07:28 AM
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Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 70
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I, Strahd - P.N. Elrod
I'm also reading several other books, but that's the one I'm currently working on the most.
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05-16-2008, 07:34 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: In Your Pants, PA.
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My mom just bought me four books at a discount (The Biography of Benjamin Franklin, a book about the fucked upness of the welfare system, Whie Oleander, The Poisenwood Bible.) It's such a gross, rainy day that I pretty much plan on reading all of them today.
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05-16-2008, 08:49 AM
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Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 99
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Stiff by Mary Roach.
So funny.
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05-29-2008, 06:15 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 169
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007, edited by Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link. It's an anthology, and I thought only three of the stories were worth the price of admission. How could they not include any stories by Caitlin Kiernan?
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05-31-2008, 11:01 AM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: IL, USA
Posts: 754
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I just got back from the library and the used book store. The library was able to special order a couple books I need for something I'm trying to write. They are Fashioning Gothic Bodies by C. Spooner and The Gendering of Melancholia by J. Schiesari. At the book store I found a used paperback copy of Matthew Lewis' The Monk..one of those books you hear so much about but seldom see IRL. Needless to say I snatched it up even tho I have about 6 other books I have to read for my writing project before I can actually get to it.
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05-31-2008, 03:53 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.
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05-31-2008, 03:58 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 639
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Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
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