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11-05-2005, 12:18 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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I just read a 'short story' by Bram Stoker. It's actually a deleted chapter from the original novel called "Dracula's Guest". It's really cool! Keep an eye out for it!
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11-06-2005, 03:29 PM
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#377
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: I live in Iceland!!
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I usually read a few books at the same time....kinda like travelling between worlds.
Right now I'm reading Void Moon by Michael Connelly, not his best but ok.
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami, very very interesting....
And a simple yet funny comic called Foršist Okkur(Avoid us), by Hugleikur Dagsson. He did 3 books called Love us, Fuck us and Kill us (allthough the titles are in Icelandic) and this is all three of them together. I already had the first 2 but hell, I can't get enough of those morbit stick-figures
-and this is my cat, Sweetie-
-that's not a cat...that's shit!-
-it's so fun dancing with you-
-I have a boner-
ohh and I just finished Terry Pratchetts A Hat Full Of Sky. I love his books
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11-06-2005, 03:49 PM
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#378
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Detroit.
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Dracula's Guest was rather interesting. I used to love the book 'Dracula' when I first read it in much... much... *sigh* younger days. If anyone is looking for it, it's in just about every collection of vampire stories ever written. I think it's a law that you have to include it or you can't publish the book.
Now I'm reading a collection of Unpanishads with accompanying essays because I am a philosophy dork, and the sci-fi masterpiece, Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny. If you haven't read it, you should... RIGHT NOW. It is really a magnum opus of fiction that has been called by many critics, "The greatest Science Fiction / Fantasy book every written." I've read it dozens of times, but it never gets old... Look it up!
Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves immortal, and now rules their world as the gods of the Hindu pantheon. Only one dares oppose them: he who was once Siddhartha and is now Mahasamatman. Binder of Demons. Lord of Light..
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11-06-2005, 03:55 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Maple Ridge, BC, Canada
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I am currently reading "Native Tongue" by Carl Hiaasen. I don't normally read books that aren't science fiction, but this author is great. I'm on my second book by him.
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11-06-2005, 10:07 PM
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#380
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dallas, TX.....Like you even give a damn.
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Originally Posted by ScrewTheDaisies
Waaaaay better than any of the movies they made from it.
I'm trying really hard to only read one book at a time for a change. Current book: Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted.
Heather
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Finally! Someone else who is reading it. What part are you at?
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11-07-2005, 01:17 PM
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#381
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Luton, England
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I'm reading The Face - Dean Koontz
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11-07-2005, 04:23 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 1,111
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I'm reading My Past and Thoughts by Alexander Herzen. Amazing read, much better than the other books I've been reading for my history course (Revolutions in Eastern Europe). Russians are amazingly talented writers.
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11-07-2005, 04:31 PM
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#383
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: a lonely place...
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atm i'm reading this thread!!!!
god, i crack myself up!!!
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11-07-2005, 07:12 PM
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#384
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dallas, TX.....Like you even give a damn.
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Originally Posted by Xnguela
Chuck Palahniuk's among my favorite authors!
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...Wow, you just keep getting better in my book. + Major Brownie Points
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TwistedKitsune: I like broccoli too! Just not when it's thrown out a window at my back by an ornery 5 year old...
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11-08-2005, 02:53 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: My head, Pa.
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Just finished today 'The Eye of the World', and I'm starting 'The Great Hunt', both by Robert Jordan (*cough* I'm a fantasy geek...), the second book in the Darksword trillogy's (Don't know if I spelled that right, too tired to care), and 'Vampire' by Manuela Dunn Mascetti. Oh! And Interview with the Vampire, I think. If I can find the book again... Hm.
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11-08-2005, 10:05 PM
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#386
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 150
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Originally Posted by Xnguela
That sounds really cool! How'd you find it?
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Well, you know how there are a bazillion different editions of Dracula? I like looking at alternate covers of books, and I was in a used book store and happened to be in the horror section. I was looking at the Dracula covers and one was entitled 'Dracula's Guest' and it caught my attention. I think I peed.
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11-11-2005, 05:13 PM
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#387
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Within the dark recesses of my soul
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"Dracula's guest is a self-contained chapter that was originally part of Stoker's manuscript for Dracula but was omitted because of the length of the published book." (The giant book of vampires, edited by Stephen Jones, 1994, Magpie Books)
Currently reading ~ Wit'ch Storm, Book 2 in the Wit'ch War saga, James Clements
~ Love in Vein, Poppy Z. Brite
~ When we die, Cedris Mims
~ The annoted HP Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi
~ Seven tales of sex and death, Patricia Duncker
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11-11-2005, 06:44 PM
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#388
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: yes
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Greetings and salutations,right now i'm reading several differnt books.I am reading a dook about Dante the poet-philosipher.I am also reading dreams your magic mirror,and I plan on reding more on philoophy.
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11-11-2005, 07:11 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Within the dark recesses of my soul
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~ When we die, Cedris Mims
It should read - ~ When we die, Cedric Mims
Sorry!
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11-12-2005, 11:29 PM
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#390
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: nevada, usa
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Far From Xanadu - Julie Anne Peters (just finished it, very spiffy book.)
La Chica Que Amaba a Tom Gordon - Stephen King (well..im attempting to read it.)
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11-14-2005, 12:03 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 1,249
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Starless Night. It's a Forgotten Realms book. I be such a nerd.
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11-14-2005, 12:25 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Florida
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I'm reading the Sword of Truth series. Just finished Chainfire.. now I guess I have to wait another year or two for the next one.
Richard.. *Drools*
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And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
~William Shakespeare
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11-14-2005, 06:55 PM
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#393
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: your house
Posts: 212
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A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin.
Series is damned literary crack, I tell ya.
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11-17-2005, 04:34 PM
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#394
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 32
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The Red Badge of Courage, then I think Hamlet. My english class is going to Boston in the spring to see the play, it should be fun.
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11-19-2005, 10:42 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 163
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On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
Dynamic Figure Drawing by Burne Hogarth
Pressure Point Fighting by Rick Clark
Romeo and Juliet by your mom
Yeah... I'm always reading at least four books at once.
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11-19-2005, 10:49 PM
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#396
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: a lonely place...
Posts: 953
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a computer screen!
*SMART ASS!!!
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"the man who won an award for taking the most drugs ever consumed by a human has died. he was attacked by a pack of wolves....he thought he saw."
*another eliter*
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11-20-2005, 07:15 AM
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#397
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 23
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Robert Rankin: Web Site Story
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Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen: The Science of Discworld II, The Globe
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11-23-2005, 08:45 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: absofuckinglutely nowhere
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currently steve martin's pure drivel. yeah, it's only 104 pages, but i only pick it up every now & then and read a chapter. and even at only 104 pages, it's chock full of wit & dripping with satire. so far, my favorite chapters are "dear amanda" and "taping my friends".
a couple of weeks ago, my daughter brought home neil gaiman's coraline. i read through it just to check it out because she seemed to really enjoy it.
quite a good little read.
i was also pretty jazzed to see it's going to be a movie, albeit an animated one.... in 2007.
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11-23-2005, 10:50 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Australia
Posts: 1,761
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Does anyone know Oscar Wilde or read any of his plays/poetry?
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11-23-2005, 11:41 PM
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