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06-30-2006, 10:34 AM
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#751
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Southern California
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Currently reading Don't Eat This Book by Morgan Spurlock. An interesting digression from my normal horror fare.
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06-30-2006, 01:30 PM
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#752
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: California
Posts: 39
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Originally Posted by Shelley/Stoker
I am currently reading two books at the same time...
And they are...
The Oxford book Of Gothic tales and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte...
I adore literature...
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I read the Oxford book before. I liked the Erzebet Bathory stuff.
Right now I'm reading a comic book, actually. V for Vendetta. Though, I've still never seen the movie.
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06-30-2006, 04:58 PM
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#753
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: I'm underneath the sink, now what do you think, living under my sink?
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Originally Posted by CreepyTendencies
Currently reading Don't Eat This Book by Morgan Spurlock. An interesting digression from my normal horror fare.
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Must remember that one sounds interesting.
Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
Trying to work my way throught the whole series.
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07-01-2006, 08:28 PM
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#754
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Some place you can't find...
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Let's see....Right now I'm reading Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice. I like it so far, just like all her other books I've read. To anybody else that's read it, is it just me or does Roger remind you of someone from the mofia??? He does to me.
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07-01-2006, 09:26 PM
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#755
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Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 509
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Currently reading :
"moving pictures" of Terry Pratchett. Read it in french long ago, it was about time to get it right 
Next on the list:
"Thud!" of the very same author  , I'm a Pratchett addict...
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07-02-2006, 11:18 AM
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#756
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 6
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Terry Pratchett is a legend... I'm currently reading "Slave Species of god" by Michael Tellinger. Quite interesting... if not odd...
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07-02-2006, 11:48 AM
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#757
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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Can you tell me a little about the book? I'm looking for something to read and it sounds like my kind of book.
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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07-06-2006, 06:38 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Devil's Punchbowl
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"And I don't want to live this life" by Deborah Spungen
Written by the mother of Nancy Spungen, Sid Vicious' girlfriend (whom he killed in the Chelsea Hotel)
You get to here about Nancy as a child. I think it's interesting that in the movie "Sid and Nancy"; there's a part where she calls home demanding money. When her mom says "no"... she goes into a swearing fit. As a viewer, it seems she is just strung out on heroin... where as (as the book explains) she's ALWAYS been like that (a child that won't stop screaming violently).
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07-08-2006, 12:25 PM
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#759
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: in a small hell
Posts: 106
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I have just finished Wicked-The Life and the Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire.It was good....Tomorrow I will start James Joyce's A Portrait of an Arthist as a Young Man.
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07-08-2006, 12:45 PM
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#760
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Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 509
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Finished Thud!...
Now I'm going all Harry Potter again, I can't help it.
So I'll be reading the all six books this week.
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-Dinosaurs eat Man. Women inherit the Earth.
"They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance."
Terry Pratchett
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07-08-2006, 01:07 PM
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#761
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: in a small hell
Posts: 106
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Originally Posted by Lady Victoria Pareesis
Finished Thud!...
Now I'm going all Harry Potter again, I can't help it.
So I'll be reading the all six books this week.
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I was thinking the same thing a few minutes ago,I guess I will take all of them with me when going to my summer house. 
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07-11-2006, 04:46 PM
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#762
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: in my own little world...
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Im reading the sleeping beauty novels by Anne Rice. I am completely in love with them, I wish it was as large a series as the vampire chronicles. Those books are better than porn, they have to be the most erotic thing I have ever read.
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07-16-2006, 11:31 AM
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#763
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Southern California
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After finishing up The Shining by Stephen King, I blazed through the Absinthe chapbook by Jack Ketchum and Tim Lebbon.
I've always been interested in checking out Rice's Sleeping Beauty novels. Perhaps I will go pick those up and delve into them next.
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07-16-2006, 12:57 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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Freakin A. I was reading A Winter's Haunting and lost the book.
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"No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world.
I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
-Mikhail Bakunin
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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07-17-2006, 12:41 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Down ze wabbit hole
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Reading two things at the same time. Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and Dreams In The Witch House and other stories by H.P Lovecraft.
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07-17-2006, 02:56 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: a house full of "catmons"
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Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian
Freakin A. I was reading A Winter's Haunting and lost the book.
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If you mean A Winter Haunting by Dan Simmons, I feel for you. That's a good book, and I'd be really sorry to lose it.
I just finished "Danse Macabre" by Laurell K. Hamilton (the latest of the Anita Blake books). What can I say? Guilty for enjoying something so superficial.
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07-17-2006, 06:44 AM
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#767
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: a russian, vienna-educated, living in the Netherlands. beat that.
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I am now reading a russian book from satirical two authors that always write together. They really got the russian character of the communist time. I just can't stop laughing, although the things they describe are actually very sad. They're called Ilf and Petrov. Does anyone know them?
Also, I am reading the Name of the Rose. Finally I got to reading this book after hearing so much about it.
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07-17-2006, 07:22 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: a house full of "catmons"
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I've read some of their works, about fifteen years ago. Not bad, but didn't impress me.
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07-17-2006, 08:03 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: a russian, vienna-educated, living in the Netherlands. beat that.
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Originally Posted by angel011
I've read some of their works, about fifteen years ago. Not bad, but didn't impress me.
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Do you mean Ilf and Petrov? If so, I am not surprised that they don't impress you. One has to really know the Russia that they write about as well as the mentality of the people. And also, it has to be read in Russian, I suppose. But I am surprised that you know them.
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07-17-2006, 08:58 AM
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#770
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Georgia
Posts: 797
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It's not a book that I would usually read but it's a pretty good book.
Abreak with charity by ann rinaldi
A little too low of a reading level if you ask me, but a good book.
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07-17-2006, 09:57 AM
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#771
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: a house full of "catmons"
Posts: 590
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Originally Posted by Don't Look Behind You
Do you mean Ilf and Petrov? If so, I am not surprised that they don't impress you. One has to really know the Russia that they write about as well as the mentality of the people. And also, it has to be read in Russian, I suppose. But I am surprised that you know them.
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Yes, it's them who I mean. I've read them in Serbian translation, mostly, though some in Russian, too (in school). I had ten years of Russian in school (we learnt a lot about the culture, not just the language), and comunistic Serbia was not quite unlike Russia that Ilf and Petrov write about. Still, while they were funny at times, I'm not all that impressed (just a matter of taste, I'm not saying they're bad).
Speaking of Russian authors, are there others that you like? I appreciate some of Bulgakov's works, and Chekhov is an excellent writer. Maria Semyonova, of the new ones, is also very interesting.
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07-17-2006, 12:58 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: a russian, vienna-educated, living in the Netherlands. beat that.
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Don't worry, I didn't think you consider them bad...it is a matter of taste. Sometimes they can be very superficial. It's only that at the moment I am living through a nostalgy phase.
I have never gotten to read much of the authors you mentioned, but of course I have heard of them. Mostly, I like Leonid Andreev, the Strugatskie brothers (although some of their works are quite exagerated), Dostoevskii of course, Erofeev, and the author that wrote "stop the plain, I'll get down on my own" or something like that (in russian it's "ostanovite samolet, ya sam slezy"). Unfortunately I don't know the name.
Have you ever heard of this book?
I suppose you are serbian? I have several serbian friends. This summer I even wanted to go there but...yeah.
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07-18-2006, 01:48 AM
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#773
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: a house full of "catmons"
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No, I haven't heard of that book, sorry.
Of the authors you mentioned, I like Erofeev, and Strugatskie brothers can be interesting at times. I'm afraid I've never had much patience for Dostoevskii, and I haven't read anything by Andreev, though I've heard of him.
Oh, and I forgot to mention I like Nabokov.
As for me being a Serbian, well, I do live in Serbia, but, since I have Croatians, Greeks, Serbians and Germans in my family, I consider myself more a Europian than anything else. I don't know if it sounds silly, but being a Serbian or Croatian or whatever has been a political choice here for far too long, and politics just makes me sick.
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07-18-2006, 03:42 AM
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#774
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: a russian, vienna-educated, living in the Netherlands. beat that.
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Try reading "Besdna" from Adreev. It is really interesting...almost gothic, I would say, if that is a possible phenomenon in a russian context.
I understand about patience and Dostoevskii. I am still stuck in the middle of "Devils"(or whatever its called in English) and I've been here a week already. But it is good. I sometimes start comparing the book as a russian answer to Hamlet. Sounds strange, but there are many parallels.
I had to read something by Nabokov for school and I remember that I liked it but I can't remember what. From Chehov, I love his shortstories, I forgot to mention that.
Wow, you really have a combination of nationalities in your family. I suppose you're right about the political choice of nationality...a guy I know from Serbia mentioned once something like that. As a Russian I have no trouble with national identity, since russians are terribly patriotic.
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07-18-2006, 07:46 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: a house full of "catmons"
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"Спать хочется" by Chekhov was really creepy; I hope I spelled it right.
I'll try to find "Besdna", thanks for the advice.
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