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02-04-2006, 09:59 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Right Here
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Uhh..
If you are going to post a quote, lengthy or otherwise, please cite the name of the author and the title of the book.
Plus when re-printing Copywritten material, you must always give credit to the source, no matter what.
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02-04-2006, 11:05 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: The Nanny State
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This thread.. haha! Taking me bloody ages! So far I'm on page 7!
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"Listen when your hurting someone, don't think of the pain he feels, only concentrate on the pleasure of causing him pain. That's the only way to show true compassion for your partner." - taken from Korosiya Ichi
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02-04-2006, 11:30 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Right Here
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Originally Posted by Santarea
Re-reading "Their Eyes were watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston, read it once in junior year. Didn't like it and I can't remember why.
Halfway through, and I love it.
Sigh. Was I rebelling against the book as required reading or my teachers for requiring it?
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Didn't they make the book into a movie last year starring Halle Berry?
I heard it was really powerful, as was the book. Missed out on both.
I'll have to add it to my "to read" list.
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02-05-2006, 02:28 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Behind you ... (well, if your back's to London)
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I love that book!! People here have some damn good taste goin' on.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick ~ Toni Morrison
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02-05-2006, 08:44 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: middle of nowhere - Wisconsin
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Sorry guys...
Now crediting book - "Island of The Sequined Love Nun" by Christopher Moore
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02-05-2006, 09:36 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: In Antarctica with the Penguins
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"Prep" by Curtis Sittenfeld
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Droppin' knowledge since 1986.
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02-05-2006, 10:47 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Cimmeria
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Metallica Unbound: The unofficial Biography (again)
2000 AD
`Different Seasons` Stephen King
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02-07-2006, 01:19 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 1,055
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Somebody reccomended My Story - Bill Clinton's memoire. I have to admit that I used to be nothing close to a Clinton fan, but decided to pick it up. They were right - Clinton, regardless of how he ran his personal life, really is the picture of the American Dream. He worked his way up from nothing - I really think he's a driven and intelligent man. I have also learned a lot about politics from the inside that I didn't know. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone interested in American politics, the civil rights movement, or Clinton himself.
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02-07-2006, 10:51 AM
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#534
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Ireland
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Lake of Souls - Darren Shan
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02-07-2006, 10:57 AM
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#535
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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I just finished Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. That wasn't as boring as everyone told me it was. In fact, I rather liked it ^_^
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02-07-2006, 11:00 AM
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#536
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Behind you ... (well, if your back's to London)
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Poor monster. He was kinda starting to grow on me. I fucken hate Frankenstein - snivelling self-pitying cuntbag.
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The meek shall inherit the earth. Just as soon as the rest of us have finished with it.
A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick ~ Toni Morrison
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02-07-2006, 11:31 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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I know! I was horrified in the end when he said he was going to kill himself, and I didn't like how Frankenstein never learned his lesson in the end. It just didn't seem conclusive to me. All should love the creature ^_^
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02-07-2006, 12:18 PM
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#538
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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ann radcliffe
it might sound too naive but I am reading Ann radcliffe's 'The Romance of the Forest'. I enjoy it. After reading more recent gothic books I thought that I might return to the origin. I quite enjoy the deptness of description of emotions and moods by Ann Radcliffe. I have read many books but I haven't enjoy any other literature as much as I do gothic literature.
I am looking for new titles. I know that there are a few good websites out there giving a list of books and authors. It is always nicer to get recommendations.
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02-07-2006, 12:21 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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yes life is deep but sometimes it is helpful to see the simple things in life like playing games on xbox or looking for girl friends. I like to see it as a whole with its simpleness and its depth.
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02-07-2006, 12:25 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: San Francisco, California.
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I've just finished reading:
*"Fire To The Powder Keg" [Eberhardt Press]--A book about Gulf War 2. Unlike most books about Gulf War 2 [which focus more on its causes, the major political/military players & the reasons for the War], this book examines the Iraqi civilians's resistance to the U.$. & U.K. militaries occupying their land. In 1 of the last 2 chapters, the author mentions U.$. military recruitment that specifically targets urban, high school-attending/jobless poor Blacks & undocumented LaRaza [Spanish/Portuguese-speaking Brown folks], then war casualties & the drop in military recruitment.
*"Kill The Indian, Save The Man" by Ward Churchill [City Lights Books]--University of Colorado political science professor/Amerikkkan Indian Movement activist Churchill extols the history of so-called "residential schools" for Indian children in the U.$. & Canada. These schools were designed to force Indian children to assimilate into dominant White settler culture by teaching the boys industrial trades & force them to wear military-style uniforms & haircuts; girls were taught to be domestic workers & only wore shown hair as punishment. Im addition, these Indian children were also accosted by White Catholic priests & adult menial workers, died of starvation & a number of diseases & most importantly, forced to abandon their native tribal traditions/dress/hairstyles & become Catholic & psychologically White. There were such schools in both U.$. & Canada between 1880 & the late 20th Century. Some Indian children escaped from these schools & their conditions to return to their tribal homes, only to die along the way.
The book I'm reading now is about the anti-Poll Tax/anti-real estate gentrification/anti-police brutality campaigns of the Class War Federation [an Anarchist group in 1980s-early 1990s England].
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02-07-2006, 12:25 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Behind you ... (well, if your back's to London)
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I'm currently reading a translation of The Golden Ass by Lucious Apuleius. Far more entertaining than a book written in 354 AD has any right to be!
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The meek shall inherit the earth. Just as soon as the rest of us have finished with it.
A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick ~ Toni Morrison
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02-07-2006, 12:53 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Cimmeria
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Originally Posted by Saya
I know! I was horrified in the end when he said he was going to kill himself, and I didn't like how Frankenstein never learned his lesson in the end. It just didn't seem conclusive to me. All should love the creature ^_^
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Creature Gooooooooooooood, Fran-ken-stein baaaaaaaaaaaad.
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For in each delve and greenwood,
far wiser creatures play,
and in their veins and sinews,
live the gods of yesterday.
Be excellent to one another !!!.
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02-08-2006, 11:45 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Lebanon
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I'm about to start a book called Theosophy.I hope it's as interesting as it sounds.
By the way,what is the difference between theology and theosophy?
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02-08-2006, 12:47 PM
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#544
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Wonderland/BarbieWorld
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The Killing Hour- Lisa Gardner
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Everytime you masturbate, God kills a kitten!
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02-09-2006, 09:06 AM
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#545
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Western MA
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As of right now I am reading three books at once. "Frankenstein" ( for school) "Witchcraft: Theory and Practice" by Ly de Angeles and "I, Vampire" by Michael Romkey (for the third time)
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02-09-2006, 02:39 PM
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#546
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Dubai
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Still trying to find a good book... It's just so hard for me sometimes to pick a book that I wouldn't get bored off easily.
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02-13-2006, 11:39 PM
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#547
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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I'm halfway through Clinton's My Life.
Just finished The Real Hillary Clinton, and I have to say, that book made me laugh.
I'm almost finished with Our Endangered Values:America's Moral Crisis by Jimmy Carter. His school of thought really appeals to me. Of all the books I've recently read, I would reccomend this one.
That's it
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02-17-2006, 03:14 AM
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#548
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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Lord of the Rings book versions: Lord of the Rings III,
just started to read
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02-17-2006, 05:35 PM
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#549
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Portland, Oregon
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I've started reading "How to rebuild a Big Block Mopar" for the second time. I'm also reading "Perl for systems Administrators" but the plot isn't really holding my attention very well.
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02-18-2006, 10:30 PM
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#550
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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Originally Posted by imaerus
Aside from Palahniuk, I also read the entire Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton, at the request of a co-worker.
I genuninely enjoyed the first five or so in the series, and i really liked the protagonist alot. But then, at some point the books just got sleazier and sleazier. I lost some respect for Anita, and the series became almost laughably sexual. It started as a tough, competent protagonist in a clever little world where vampires live amongst us as legal citizens. But it devolved into, for lack of a better description, a series of tawdry romace novels with a preternatural twist. Vampire Porn. Anyone else as disappointed in the change in Anita Blake as me?
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No, it's not just you. I enjoyed the series even up until Narcissus in Chains. Cerulean Sins and Incubus Dreams were just vampire/wereperson porn. And, ya know, I read and thoroughly enjoy romance novels and it wasn't even "tawdry romace novels with a preternatural twist". Romances at least have a plot. Incubus Dreams was jsut a series of cold sex scenes strung together by the barest hint of a mystery. Heck I didn't think that the first hundred pages of so even felt like Anita Blake. and yet I keep buying them because now I'm invested in most of these characters, have been reading them for years, and I still hope that she'll pull out of this slump and get back to how great the first books were. Becuase they were. The first books in the series were fabulous. I think I spent my whole vacation one year laying around and read the first five or six in the series! But, no, it's now just you!
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