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Old 04-29-2009, 09:34 PM   #2126
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Jilian, can you please explain to me the thing about "vs" and "v"? I did try to look it up but quickly grew tired of not finding what I wanted, I didn't realise there was an issue of one now being void yet still publicized? All I can can find is "vs" as an abbreviation of versus, not "v".
Sorry, I barely saw this.
The original abbreviation of "versus" is "v." not "vs."
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Old 05-02-2009, 10:36 AM   #2127
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Old 05-02-2009, 11:13 AM   #2128
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I read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest today. It was good.
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Old 05-03-2009, 10:48 AM   #2129
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Old 05-03-2009, 10:54 AM   #2130
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I just read God and the State by Mikhail Bakunin and now I'm reading Now and After by Alexander Berkman.
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Old 05-06-2009, 04:55 PM   #2131
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George Orwell's 1984. It seems like I've been reading and reading and yet I'm only on page 30. Odd.
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Old 05-06-2009, 04:58 PM   #2132
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No money for books this week, so borrowed Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz from my roommate. Its not that bad, so far.
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Old 05-06-2009, 06:45 PM   #2133
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American Gods - Neil Gaimon.

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Old 05-06-2009, 07:12 PM   #2134
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Old 05-06-2009, 09:12 PM   #2135
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No money for books this week, so borrowed Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz from my roommate. Its not that bad, so far.
It's amaziiiiing, the whole series.

PS go Vonnegut.
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Old 05-06-2009, 10:42 PM   #2136
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Old 05-07-2009, 10:43 AM   #2137
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I read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest today. It was good.
"Good"?

GOOD?

I'm sure you meant to say "excellent", but even knowing that, a vein in my temple is throbbing something crazy.
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Old 05-07-2009, 06:26 PM   #2138
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American Gods by Neil Gaiman

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Old 05-09-2009, 02:37 PM   #2139
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I'm about halfway through The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy. Hopefully I'll finish it by the end of the night.
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Old 05-09-2009, 03:17 PM   #2140
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Old 05-09-2009, 06:11 PM   #2141
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I'm about halfway through a piece of shit called "I Shudder At Your Touch." It's a collection of short stories that are supposed to have two common themes: Sex and horror. There's very little of each to be found.

It's awful, really. Most of the stories are contrived and make little sense. The example par excellence lies in the summary of a story called "The Swords": A young man in England, who happens to be a virgin, wanders through a carnival and enters a tent to find a show in which a beautiful woman wearing green powder sits in the ring. One by one the audience members walk up to her and stab her with swords. The young man is perplexed when he sees that she does not appear to be in pain and no blood can be seen.

Later, the man who runs the show offers to sell this beautiful woman to the young man for ten pounds. He of course accepts, but is disgusted when he finds that screwing her is very reminiscent of screwing a dead person - that is to say, she's not into it at all. He goes to pull her up by her hands, one of which detaches itself. Again, there is no blood. She grabs her hand from him and runs away screaming. The end.

I don't think I'll be finishing this book. Thank god I only borrowed it.
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Old 05-10-2009, 04:25 AM   #2142
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I just finished Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee. Next I'll read Junky by William S. Burroughs.
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Old 05-10-2009, 08:22 AM   #2143
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Well, I've just finished Junky, so I'll read The Captain's Daughter by Alexander Pushkin.
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Old 05-10-2009, 08:31 AM   #2144
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Old 05-11-2009, 08:35 AM   #2145
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I'm going to read Fathers and Children by Ivan Turgenev.
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Old 05-11-2009, 03:08 PM   #2146
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The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
White Crow, by Mary Gentle
The Dispossessed, by Ursula LeGuin
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Old 05-11-2009, 08:47 PM   #2147
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Old 05-11-2009, 10:31 PM   #2148
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Smack is good. I vaguely remember reading it my freshman year of high school.
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Old 05-12-2009, 05:35 AM   #2149
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The Winner Stands Alone, Paulo Coelho
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Old 05-12-2009, 08:24 AM   #2150
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