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Old 10-27-2011, 10:52 PM   #2926
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Old 10-28-2011, 07:46 AM   #2927
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Old 10-29-2011, 10:49 AM   #2928
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Hamlet and Fordham's An Intro to Jung's Psychology.

Both for class, but both worth the read.
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Old 10-29-2011, 06:06 PM   #2929
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Lady Oracle, A Study in Sherlock, and the Steve Jobs biography.
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Old 10-29-2011, 06:34 PM   #2930
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The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, so far its depressing me. She's an awesome author but in some books like this, Cat's Eye, Moral Disorder, etc, the theme seems to be "women's lot in life is HORRIBLE."
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Old 10-29-2011, 07:13 PM   #2931
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Margaret Atwood is one of my favorite authors. She does tend to use her work as a way to comment on social issues, but so far I've never felt like anything she wrote was unreasonable. The Blind Assassin is incredible. Have you read The Handmaid's Tale? Because, geez.
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Old 10-30-2011, 09:06 AM   #2932
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Margaret Atwood is one of my favorite authors. She does tend to use her work as a way to comment on social issues, but so far I've never felt like anything she wrote was unreasonable. The Blind Assassin is incredible. Have you read The Handmaid's Tale? Because, geez.
Oh I don't mean she uses hyperbole, its just that kind of social commentary is starting to get to me.

Handmaid's Tale didn't depress me as much, might have been because I read it all in one night, whereas since I don't have much time for reading I've been reading Blind Assassin for a few weeks now. I think that and Year Of The Flood were my favourites.
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Old 10-30-2011, 04:52 PM   #2933
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I like Alias Grace and Blind Assassin best. I've probably read the latter close to 20 times.
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Old 11-03-2011, 07:49 PM   #2934
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A Study in Sherlock. So far, I've loved every story.
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Old 11-04-2011, 04:38 AM   #2935
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I'm reading the Wheel of Time series again plus loads of classics. I would name them all but it's a massive list.
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Old 11-04-2011, 04:46 AM   #2936
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A Storm of Swords - yes, I caved after Game of Thrones withdrawal set in. The writing style is annoying, but I'm finding the storyline compulsive as fuck.
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Old 11-22-2011, 08:05 AM   #2937
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I've got a sci-fi kick going right now. Have been reading the Star Wars novels. Am now on "Heir to the Empire" by Timothy Zahn.
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Old 11-22-2011, 03:19 PM   #2938
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I've got a sci-fi kick going right now. Have been reading the Star Wars novels. Am now on "Heir to the Empire" by Timothy Zahn.
Thats a really good book, did you also read the graphic novel version that Dark Horse comics published a while back ?

I have quite a few Star wars books in my collection, my favourite being `The Star wars Chronicles` which is amazing !!!.
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Old 11-23-2011, 02:49 PM   #2939
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Been trying to read 'Salem's Lot' for about a month, but I keep getting distracted, first by the first installment of 'The Hunger Games' and then by Adam's copy of Jekyll and Hyde...I will finish this book.
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Old 11-23-2011, 03:35 PM   #2940
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Been trying to read 'Salem's Lot' for about a month, but I keep getting distracted, first by the first installment of 'The Hunger Games' and then by Adam's copy of Jekyll and Hyde...I will finish this book.
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Old 11-23-2011, 04:33 PM   #2941
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Thats a really good book, did you also read the graphic novel version that Dark Horse comics published a while back ?

I have quite a few Star wars books in my collection, my favourite being `The Star wars Chronicles` which is amazing !!!.
I'm still toward the beginning of Heir but so far am feeling like I enjoyed the earlier books better. I do realize that some books can take a while to warm up, so it won't be tossed aside.

I toughed it out through the first half of "Outlander" and felt like I was gonna die because it seemed so boring but ended up getting really hooked on the series.

Tell me more about "The Star Wars Chronicles" please? Mr. Kitty has just about all of the Star Wars Novels in his library. I don't recall seeing that one though. We don't have the graphic novels either.
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Old 11-23-2011, 07:15 PM   #2942
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey and trying to finish the rest of Stephen King's Dark Tower series and World War Z by Max Brooks.
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Old 11-23-2011, 08:23 PM   #2943
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I am highly amused by the extreme level of Star Wars geek that has suddenly appeared around here.

Currently writing a paper on Coraline, so I just keep reading it over and over. Not that I'm complaining.
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Old 11-23-2011, 08:25 PM   #2944
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Coraline? As in the girl with the button eyes? I liked that movie. The ladies with the dogs freaked me out though.
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Coraline? As in the girl with the button eyes? I liked that movie. The ladies with the dogs freaked me out though.
Yes indeed. I love it to bits, and was quite excited when I convinced my professor to let me write about it. Am contemplating wearing my new button key necklace when I present the paper, but that might be too much...
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Old 11-23-2011, 09:30 PM   #2946
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Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie.
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Old 11-24-2011, 08:47 AM   #2948
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Just finished rereading "Something Rotten" - Jasper Fforde.

Now I'm trying to decide between starting "The Hobbit Trap" - Maciej Henneberg and John Schofield... "Islam (its law and society)" - Jamila Hussein... or "Javascript in easy steps" - Mike McGrath.
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Old 11-24-2011, 09:16 AM   #2950
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I'm told Java Script isn't worth learning, but figured I'd have a passing looksy anyway just for fun... as I haven't coded at all before. (Except passing one unit by rote memory after missing prerequisites, which didn't teach me a thing.)

I've done "Hello World" which is basically the equivalent of potty training, now I want to see if I can make it do sums. If I can't get basic competence, I will simply use the knowledge I have to make the strings form disgusting and anatomically improbable statements. Hee ^_^
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